fall 2021
editor's note
Dear Reader,
As 2021 draws to a close, we welcome you to the latest issue of Gaia Lit, featuring the voices and visions of fifteen incredible artists. The theme for our issue was atmosphere, through which we encouraged potential contributors to research key terms for inspiration, including but not limited to greenhouse gas emissions and solar irradiance. The work represented in our second issue speaks to how art and writing can function as modes of communication. Each piece considers heat waves, rainstorms, droughts; where the sky begins and where it ends; what color the air is afraid to be. Our contributors question the breath of light and of motion, of sound and of protest.
As we combed through submissions, we were humbled and excited and encouraged by the range of work we received. We saw so many ways in which art and writing were used to ask and to answer, to disturb and to calm—to unite. We are infinitely grateful for the voices we heard, the visions we experienced, the hope we shared.
Many thanks to our readers, our staff, our submitters, and our contributors for making Gaia more than possible. We welcome the new year with hope, with unity. Until then, please stay safe and healthy.
Thank you for visiting. As always, we hope you stay.
Best wishes,
Elane Kim
Editor-in-Chief of Gaia Lit
As 2021 draws to a close, we welcome you to the latest issue of Gaia Lit, featuring the voices and visions of fifteen incredible artists. The theme for our issue was atmosphere, through which we encouraged potential contributors to research key terms for inspiration, including but not limited to greenhouse gas emissions and solar irradiance. The work represented in our second issue speaks to how art and writing can function as modes of communication. Each piece considers heat waves, rainstorms, droughts; where the sky begins and where it ends; what color the air is afraid to be. Our contributors question the breath of light and of motion, of sound and of protest.
As we combed through submissions, we were humbled and excited and encouraged by the range of work we received. We saw so many ways in which art and writing were used to ask and to answer, to disturb and to calm—to unite. We are infinitely grateful for the voices we heard, the visions we experienced, the hope we shared.
Many thanks to our readers, our staff, our submitters, and our contributors for making Gaia more than possible. We welcome the new year with hope, with unity. Until then, please stay safe and healthy.
Thank you for visiting. As always, we hope you stay.
Best wishes,
Elane Kim
Editor-in-Chief of Gaia Lit