ANNA LOVERING

Anna Lovering is a highly talented artist who explores her creative impulses through various mediums such as black and white photography, ceramics, drawing, watercolor, metallurgy, oil painting, acrylics, pastels, music, and creative writing.

As a self taught artist she made the decision to supplement her natural artistic abilities through formal studies, first at South Plains College in Levelland, Texas, then moving forward to Texas Tech University. Along the way she studied under other artists who have showcased their works in and around the southwest galleries, notables such as Marilyn Dewbre, and Al Henderson.

Her own work has been exhibited in many galleries including The Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, On Q, Space 1110, and Texas Tech Museum. Anna’s black and white photography and written works have been published in Plainspoken, a journal of literature and art at South Plains College. Published illustration work includes Special Publications, a biology wildlife journal for the Museum of Texas Tech University. She has also received commissions for graphic work and writing from individuals and business entities.

On her writing, Anna says “literature, the language, and mechanics have woven their possibility through each piece and I hope that you enjoy what you have read.”

We are honored that Anna has graced our pages with her deeply sentient poetry.

Anna Lovering can be found on Twitter @AnnaLovering.

SHADY SHADOW EIGHT

'Shadow,' an entrepreneur of
life sews thoughts
out of lights, then
directs them to set
action. To

Tip-toe at night, and
lean in and around
doorways, which invite
IN. Come, sit for a

spell and drink it all in.
Then hurried out to walk hours.
A bridge, leading into
grain daylight.

While already picked flowers
grew in a garden
before you bent
over with airy

steps which linger
'Shadow,' who holds a number of
disguises to court the pavement
while left to right. Swaying to

hold a hand against a
brick wall, wave for you
simultaneously as
you've walked down a street.