Issue 11, Fall 2022
Foreword
from “Christine” By Cody Price
Issue 11 marks our 5th year anniversary of showcasing MCC art and literature online. To celebrate this special occasion, we did something we swore we’d never do – released selections from Ovis in print! Check out the Ovis 5th year anniversary zine in print or online. It contains some of our favorites from Issues 1-10.
Issue 11 is also our largest yet in number of works and contributors, including pieces from Nathan Adler, Martha Aguilar, Tatyana Anderson, Dennett K Armstrong, Samuel Arredondo, Preston Baldwin, Aliccia Brooke Braaten, Amber Cole, Caymen Dansby, Rina Draper-Gione, Matthew Encinas, Eric Estrada, James Exley, Michael Fleming, Grace Greer, Natalie Hammon, Hailey Helm, Robyn Hurley, Debbie McKee, Paul Placial, Cody Price, Mandie Price, Beau Rogers, Jennine Ramirez, Adam Romano, Lisa Sanchez, Hadlee Tatton, Ellie Thomas, Lukas Timpson, and Miriam Timpson.
Enjoy poetic works from Aguilar, Anderson, Draper-Gione, Estrada, Greer, Hammon, Helm, McKee, M. Price, Sanchez, Tatton, Thomas, L. Timpson, and M. Timpson.
Longer selections include fiction from Arredondo, Dansby, Exley, and M. Price, non-fiction from Hurley, drama from Fleming, and film from Cole.
For the first time, we have visual art from one of our career and technical education programs from Encinas. Romano returns with a series of works, joined by works from Baldwin, Braaten and C. Price.
Finally, Professor Rogers returns with photographs of wild places while Adler, C. Price, and Ramirez remind us of the beauty in our own backyards.
Ovis Issue 1 Release Party contributors & editorial staff, October 2017
Contents
Drama
Vortices by Michael Fleming
Fiction
Heal Me by Samuel Arredondo
Midnight Friend by Caymen Dansby
Phonograph by James Exley
Day Is Done, Gone The Sun by Mandie Price
Film
Another Year in the Back of Beyond and Below by Amber Cole
Non-fiction
The Musings of a Late Bloomer by Robyn Hurley
Photography
Cactus Man by Debbie McKee
Feathers by Paul Placial
Christine and Rocket88 into the Galaxy by Cody Price
Alien Throne of New Mexico Badlands and Milky Way over Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming by Beau Rogers
Early Morning at Big Pine Lake, California and Sunset over Rio Grande River, Texas and Mexico by Beau Rogers
Poetry
My Dear Medusa and Father Time by Martha Aguilar
The Paint and Who’s This Woman I See by Tatyana Anderson
Lake Havasu City Sunset and Summer in Havasu by Jennine Ramirez and Rina Draper-Gione
Dubai by Eric Estrada
Nom De Plume by Grace Greer
My Love For You, Will Forever Grow by Natalie Hammon
Adulthood Sucks by Hailey Helm
Like Alcohol and Kindred by Debbie McKee
The Cloud by Mandie Price
A Sonnet for Dr. Holland by Lisa Sanchez
The Life of a Chair by Hadlee Tatton
Under the Light and Spring in Arizona by Nathan Adler and Ellie Thomas
The Line in the Sand and There’s a Voice in My Mind by Lukas Timpson
Being a Mom by Miriam Timpson
Visual Art
Strengthen Within Your Line and Indigenous Shinny Player by Dennett K Armstrong
Self-Portrait No. 2 by Preston Baldwin
Acrylic Pour by Aliccia Brooke Braaten
Welded Spider by Matthew Encinas
Time of Death by Cody Price
Ghostly Transmissions by Adam Romano