The Spring/Summer 2023 issue of Humana Obscura features work by 77 new, emerging, and established contributors from around the globe.
The anticipated Fall/Winter 2021 issue, our third issue, of Humana Obscura is now available in print and online! This latest issue features work from 43 contributors from around the world. Issue #03 The Fall/Winter 2021 issue of Humana Obscura features work by 43 new, emerging, and established contributors, including Retura Claar, Derrick Breidenthal, Luke Levi, Bryan [...]
Humana Obscura will be accepting submissions of nature/environment-themed poetry, prose, and art for its Fall/Winter 2021 issue until July 31st! While we are open to style, weโre looking for work that is nuanced, honest, raw, and imagistic with strong elements of the natural world or the human-nature relationship. We are an independent, bi-annual online literary [...]
AUTHOR INTERVIEW with B. L. Bruce Last month, I sat down virtually with Blogespresso for an author interview to discuss my latest book Measures, my writing process, and what feeds my creativity. Can you please introduce yourself? Readers would love to know more about you. My name is Bri Bruce (writing under the name B. [...]
Measures B.L. Bruce Publisher:ย Black Swift Pressย Pages:ย 134ย ISBN:ย 9781735707402Reviewed:ย March, 2021 BUY THE BOOK ON AMAZON Excerpt from BlueInk Review [B.L. Bruce's] newest poetry collection, Measures, by turns elicits tenderness and melancholy, hopefulness and heartbreakโwhich is to say, the gamut of the human condition.Measuresย includes 58, mostly free verse poems with occasional haiku. Imagery from the natural world is often [...]
Itโs officially here! The long awaited Spring/Summer 2021 issue, our second issue, ofย Humana Obscura is now available! We are incredibly impressed by the quality of work in this beautiful issue, and sincerely welcome all of our contributors and new readers to this creative community weโve builtโand hope to continue to expand. Without your work, this [...]
The poems ofย Measuresย embrace lyrical tendencies as they move through the seasons of a troubled relationship. Both absence and presence haunt the pages of b. l. bruceโs poetry collection, Measures. A one time lover and longed for friend adventures to the water, leaving their companion alone on the shore. Wrinkles appear as if grooved overnight, and the [...]
WHITE LILIES Love me, I ask of you.Press your mouth to mine,I want to say.The contours of our limbsare restless. We throw ourselves from the houseat sundown, wander down the hill,pass the milk-white folds of the liliesyawning and rising along the fence.I brush my body against theirs. At once, the murmur of rainsoundlike a stone [...]