Wild Apples is a literary journal that my mother, Linda Hoffman, started with a few other friends. What follows is the introduction from their website:
"Wild Apples: a journal of nature, art, and inquiry is a new twice-yearly arts and literary publication. Taking its name and inspiration from Henry David Thoreau's essay, "Wild Apples," the journal brings together the work of artists and writers who are connected by the common threads of care for the environment, engagement in social concerns, and commitment to the arts and the way they shape our world.
"Artists are not like the ordered rows of trees in a commercial orchard," writes founding editor, Linda Hoffman, in her introduction to the first issue. "They have more in common with the wild apples growing on the borders of woodlands." Our journal seeks to find these gems in the landscape, let the different arts and visions intermingle, and produce new varieties and voices to sustain us.
Let Wild Apples be a haven from cell phones and computers; a piece of reading that takes you into the woods and wilds. As the journal's guiding spirit writes:
What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!"
When for the third issue, with the theme of soil, they asked me to write a piece on the subject of the dirt that I work with I jumped at the chance. The journal is beautiful printed in full color and with no advertisements. The piece that I wrote is on my time working with Matt Jones. There is a .pdf sample of the essay available here. If you enjoy what you see I encourage you all to check out a copy. They are not cheap but it is well worth the money. There are not to many journals like this out there and I think they all do a terrific job. I will post the essay in its entirety soon.
When for the third issue, with the theme of soil, they asked me to write a piece on the subject of the dirt that I work with I jumped at the chance. The journal is beautiful printed in full color and with no advertisements. The piece that I wrote is on my time working with Matt Jones. There is a .pdf sample of the essay available here. If you enjoy what you see I encourage you all to check out a copy. They are not cheap but it is well worth the money. There are not to many journals like this out there and I think they all do a terrific job. I will post the essay in its entirety soon.
6 comments:
Sounds great... really very much what I'd be into. I couldn't get the links to work. What is their website?
ooops! I just fixed the link. I think it should work now....
hi alex, sounds great, link still doesn't work. it's http://www.wildapples.org and yours is http://www.blogger.com/www.wildapples.org ... need to extract that www.blogger.com
Thanks... that's very cool. I look forward to reading your whole article. I will definitely pass this on to friends. I love the idea behind it and connecting callings like that. I was an English major and am now an artist. The inspiration that comes from different sorts of human expressions can be so much stronger than just looking at your own medium.
And for such a cool magazine, that price is not bad at all!
I think I got the link working....for real this time. Thanks Jim and Sarah for pointing it out!
very cool alex! your path and your work is great!
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