Janis Butler Holm

 

Artist Statement

I used to paint, but after contracting chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome plus fibromyalgia, I now spend most of my days propped up in bed. So digital art is a means of creative expression. (Not whining–just explaining.)

“Wished-For Bedroom” is a personal joke, as my very-lived-in bedroom is piled high with necessary clutter.

 

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Janis Butler Holm

Janis Butler Holm served as Associate Editor for Wide Angle, the film journal, and currently works as a writer and editor in sunny Los Angeles. Her prose, poems, art, and performance pieces have appeared in small-press, national, and international magazines. Her plays have been produced in the U.S., Canada, Russia, and the U.K.     

Movable Type Issue No. 15: State of the Art

Sean Murphy MOVEABLE FEAST: MARTHA’S VINEYARD The vision for this initiative, an informal—and growing—consortium of friends who all not only believe in building community, but recognize it’s never been more critical, has been a work-in-progress since the pre-Covid...

Movable Type Issue No. 15: Jon Madof

Navigating the 21st Century Music Industry My relationship with Jon Madof began with an email. Or, it began when I first encountered his string of remarkable albums for jazz icon John Zorn's Tzadik label in the early years of this century. Or, it began before both of...

Movable Type Issue No. 15 End Note: Ai will not replace Art

Sean Murphy Endnote: AI Will Not Replace Art "Etonne-moi!" —Serge Diaghilev, to Jean Cocteau  Adam Gopnik, the prolific and brilliant writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker for several decades, has a timely piece in The New York Times that anyone interested...

Movable Type Issue No. 15: Katie Mooney

Katie Mooney Curating Stories One Artist at a Time: The Peter Bullough Foundation Dr. Peter Bullough established his eponymous foundation with the lofty goal of “saving civilization through the power of the arts.” How does one go about saving the world, you might ask?...

Movable Type Issue No. 15: Gay Giordano

Gay Giordano Poems   Fanfare in The Night Waves   An extravagant lack of foresight That night is dark and incalculable The amateur dramatics of rubbery creatures  Living in cracks in the earth, bowls of water Are in rehearsal for an eternal run Untouched by our...

Movable Type Issue No. 15: John Holbrook Carter

John Holbrook Carter A Poem   Like a Rose   You clench your age like a rose between your teeth  You wear those wrinkles and those scars like badges.   These are your service ribbons and your medals.   These are the carvings of a life lived full.   So now old man...

Movable Type Issue No. 15: Meri Bender

Meri Bender Poems Regrets Only   I had my first orgasm in San Diego In a hotel room after watching a James Bond movie The kids asleep in the next room. I had my first orgasm in junior high In the girl’s restroom As I tried to insert my first tampon. I had my...

Movable Type Issue No. 15: Alyson Gold Weinberg

Alyson Gold Weinberg A Poem   ARS PANDEMICA Stitching left to right then right to left,  engaging both hands and both spheres,  the mind grows quiet, the hands come alive  with color and softness, the repetition  of movement. It’s soothing, knitting. The...

Movable Type Issue No. 15: Lisken Van Pelt Dus

Lisken Van Pelt Dus  Poems   Naming the Beast   Name the beast: a gash,  a pair of disembodied eyes,  a river broken. Ignore the dark country  of its terrible origins.       I try – no go. A name contains a history.  Fear is a danger lying in wait, says...

Movable Type Issue No. 15: Shawn Dubravac

Dr. Shawn Dubravac Technological Waves and the Changing Tides of Writing Those whose feet were already on the first rung of the ladder of fame when the machine first became an accepted factor in the writing world shook their heads in dismay. Shivers ran down literary...

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