New Year–a continuation of beauty and the ache that inspires it.

In his collection Breakfast with Thom Gunn, Randall Mann melds vulnerability and eloquence like few poets can. This month, in a truly poignant interview, he reads his poems and talks to me about heartache, homosexuality, drugs and death in San Francisco.

Annie Palmer is an introspective storyteller with a liquor-honey voice who was born in Chattanooga and now lives in Michigan. This month we feature her folk, and I sit down with her for an interview and some exclusive acoustic takes.

Artist Kris Lewis’ portraits are a revelation, Marcos Soriano debuts and reads two pieces of fiction, A Prayer for Becky Sims and Love, Jascha Kessler reflects, Scott Hightower reviews poet Kathy Fagan and much more.

Enjoy, and thank you for an amazing first year in the fog.

Benjamin Evans
Executive Editor, Fogged Clarity

• Marcos Soriano A Prayer for Becky Sims
• Love
• Ryan McCarl Back From Boston

• Brandon Courtney Epistolary
• Katherine McCord Blowback
• Karissa Morton Elegy for Mulberry Leaf
• Scott T. Starbuck Erich Said He’s Amazed at What Lizards Teach Us
• For Uncle Ed
• Johnny Chinnici Urban Mowgli

• Rory Kurtz Illustration & Digital Paint
• Kris Lewis Portraits
• Jeremy Asher Lynch Paint & Mixed Media

• Annie Palmer Wake Up Son / Split

• Randall Mann Discusses his collection Breakfast with Thom Gunn
• Annie Palmer Talks music and Michigan

• Scott Hightower A Look at the Poetry of Kathy Fagan

• Jascha Kessler A Sketch of the Artist as Ephebe

Portraits

“As I begin a painting a subject physically, it emotionally and spiritually reveals itself to me. Each brushstroke speaks to the subsequent stroke, carrying out a dialogue, linking my subject and I as if we were meeting for the first time. I find this uncertainty exciting and embrace the indecisive nature of my work.

Artwork is love made visible…”