Lit Mag Covers :: Picks of the Week

The Winter 2015/2016 cover of Beloit Poetry Journal features Alexis Lago’s “Tree of Indulgences,” watercolor on paper, 2009. Lago is a Cuban visual artist now living and working between Toronto and Florida. See more of his works here: www.alexislago.weebly.com.
The Massachusetts Review Winter 2015 includes two outstanding art features: Selections from Chuck Close Photographs which were on exhibit Sept. – Dec. 2015 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Museum of Contemporary Art and Selections from Women’s Work: Feminist Art from the Smith College Museum Art Collection which were on exhibit Sept. 2015 – Jan. 2016. The cover features Bill T. Jones (2008) by Chuck Close.
It would appear that human faces have captured my attention for this week’s picks. The Writing Disorder online lit mag features the illustrative art Alina Zamanova on its homepage as well as with a selection of her works in this quarter’s issue.