I first got the idea behind CRIT Journal when an acquaintance commented that she didn’t think our work was likely ever to appear in the same journal. While I thought there was some validity to this given our very different styles and techniques, I also thought it was a shame because there was something that our work had in common: my attempts to capture that similarity became CRIT’s mission statement.

The new Imbolc issue lives up to and surpasses my original goals for CRIT. It includes gorgeous paintings and photographs set up at different distances from abstraction, experimental and confessional poems, and prose that describes the impossible, the probable, and the probably misunderstood. This is also the first issue with Jade Sylvan at the helm of the poetry section.