Artist Biography

Yolanda Mora was born in Madrid, Spain in 1973. She studied Fine Arts at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. Writing and painting since  childhood, Yolanda’s motto is “Art Saves Lives.” Co-editor of the internet magazine THE STOLEN POEM, she currently is preparing an exhibition in Madrid, and a text-based exhibit alongside the world of John Rossi that will be shown in Ohio, USA. An extra on movie sets, Yolanda also enjoys the museum Reina Sofía in Madrid. She currently is at work on her fourth book of poems.

Carmen Castaño Mendez, "A Little Beast," photograph on the theme of beasts

Wheel of Fortune

Thus,
returning home
the last embers of the working week
fade in the hand
that holds
tightly
to the subway strap.
Panting—
but finally free
of the everyday armour
that binds
this life
we live
curling up
in continuous
repetitions—

I come up from
the subterranean swarm
dazzled by the street
clatter of people coming
and going
when a fortune teller
takes my hand
and begins to read
it:
There, you see—
she chatters
as I get lost
in the lines of my palm —
I see you
spinning
circling,
stirring….

Author and Artist Biography

Francesca Castaño lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. She is a Spaniard who writes in English. She loves her man and her son,  poetry and cooking. Her master’s thesis,  “The Limitless Self: Desire and Transgression in Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Written on the Body,” was published by the University of Barcelona, in February 2010. Her poems have appeared in The Bruised Peach Press, and The Internationalwordbank.

Carmen Castaño Mendez, was born in Spain and currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand. She was featured as a finalist in the Auckland Festival of Photography Photo Day for the last 3 years. Her photos have also appeared in The Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, February 2011.