Laura Feeleus
New Tulips
acrylic on canvas
24″ x 32″ / 2018
Laura Feeleus works primarily as a painter and textile artist. She graduated with a Diploma in Fine Art from the Vancouver Island School of Art in 2010 and is one of the founding members of arc.hive artist run centre in Victoria. She is a regular participant in Vancouver Island Surface Design Association exhibitions. laurafeeleus.ca
John Barton’s poem, a duplex, is a sonnet variation devised by American poet Jericho Brown. Palimpsest published We Are Not Avatars: Essays, Manifestos in 2019. His twelfth collection of poetry, Lost Family: A Memoir, appears with Signal this fall. He is Victoria’s fifth, first male, and first queer poet laureate. john-barton.ca
Sudden Tongues John Barton responds to New Tulips by Laura Feeleus