05


2024

Issue 05 is here! This issue is filled with hybrid and interdisciplinary work from poets, artists, and writers, and creative thinkers. Printed on heavyweight recycled paper in full color, Issue 05 is Paperbark’s most dynamic issue to date.

Get your copy here.

Read the issue in full on Scholarworks.

Contributors:

Bayo Akomolafe, Dan Beachy-Quick, Rick Benjamin, Sherah Bloor, JoAnne Carson, Myna Chang, Joanna Clapps Herman, Edward Clifford, Cameron Davis, Daniel Eboreime, Anthony Farenwald, Loisa Fenichell, Robert Fernandez, Josh Fomon, Leslie Fry, Adam Gianforcaro, Mike Glier, Katie Holten, Sabrina Imbler, Amanda Jasnowski Pascual, Philip Jason, Beth Kephart, Andrew Krivak, Jude Lake, Michele Lauriat, BEE LB, Karen Margolis, Kevin McLellan, Rusty Morrison, Zoe Mouligne, Jesse Moy, Terra Oliveira, Simona Prives, Kylan Rice, Steven Rood, Lia Rothstein, Sirintip, Bianca Stone, Zoe Todd, and Laura Von Rosk

Cover artist: Simona Prives

04


2023


The Paperbark team is thrilled to announce that Issue 04 is out! Issue 04 contains poetry, prose, art, and interviews with academics, scientists and artists. Issue 04 is available for purchase here.

Read selected excerpts from this issue at Scholarworks.

Contributors:

Laurel Benjamin, Lauren Camp, Abigail Chabitnoy, Lawdenmarc Decamora, Megan Diddie, Christa Donner, Martín Espada, Robin Gow, Paweł Grajnert, Chelsea Granger, Carol Hart, Marj Hogan, Maria Hupfield, Erika Kielsgard, Samantha Lucchetta, Lux, Anna Macleod, Jessica Maffia, Jacqueline Maloney, Laura McPherson, Julian Mithra, Tim Moder, Carolyn Oliver, Gillian Osborne, Abbey Paccia & Eric Tilton, Ralph Pennel, Annika Poitras, Sigrid Miller Pollin, Charles Rafferty, J Randall, Michael Rogner, Santana Shorty, Krista Leigh Steinke, Caroline Belle Stewart, Virgil Suárez, Nina Sophia Swart, and Angela Waldie

 

Photo: Caroline Donaghey

03


2022


After a pandemic hiatus, the Paperbark team is thrilled to return to print with Issue 03. Redesigned and reimagined, Issue 03 is a venture into a more experimental publication. Issue 03 is available for purchase here.

Contributors:

Sean Cho A., Callum Angus, Scott Bentley, Arno Bohlmeijer, CAConrad, Sarah Dolan, Emmalie Dropkin, Emplacement Society, Santee Frazier, Peter Gizzi, David Greenspan
High Altitude Bioprospecting Team (HAB), Patrick Jacobs, Sama Mirghavami, Hannah Piette, Avital Sagalyn, Sean Sawicki, Sheida Soleimani, Maya Weeks, Ashley Eliza Williams. Cover artist: Michelle Samour

 

Photo: Santee Frazier

02


2019

A commitment to the act of survival. A reverence for our Emergence and a will to carry on. This is our becoming, our unwinding, our chance to show how we are under pressure.  We are all under pressure, here. Here, we work to recognize harm and to unlearn its violent boundaries. We work to grow in tune with symbiosis, equity, and truth-telling. Here, we honor what is daring, what dwells in liminality, what is strengthened through multiplicity. This work is unafraid insofar as it embraces the fear involved in the work of living. We look to narratives that are timely, that live through and with trauma, that are malleable and potentially still forming. This work is bold. This work is boundless.



 

Photo: Jad Limcaco

01


2018


Emergence. The beginning. The first movements to beyond. Simultaneously rooted and pressing forward. This is our start, our coming into being, our inception. Here, we are celebrating the new, the groundbreaking, and the onward—work that is timely, important, that perhaps has not existed before, that is malleable and still being shaped, that looks to the future while recognizing the past. This work is bold, unafraid, and grapples with multiple localities. It reaches.

The pieces in this inaugural issue deal with variations on the theme of Emergence. The theme takes inspiration from the birth of the magazine and echoes the undeniable reality of climate change and the renewed vigor of the climate justice movement in the wake of the United States’ withdrawal from the landmark Paris Climate Accord. Contributors include Angela Burnett, Leah Kirts, Ellen Meeropol, Robert Dow, and Liz Hamm among others.

 

Photo: Joshua Murray

Issue 01 is available for free access here.