Canopic Jar No. 11

The View From My Ridge
by Charles E. Rice is now available from
Canopic Publishing

Canopic Jar is an organic forum for
multi-media expression with an emphasis on literary efforts.

Unless stated otherwise, the artwork adorning the main page of CANOPIC JAR No. 11 is by
Jonathan Talbot

Jonathan Talbot: A true multi-media artist, Talbot's works include oils, watercolors, etchings, collages, and multi-dimensional collage-constructions. His art has appeared in exhibitions at The National Academy and the Museum of Modern Art in New York as well as in international exhibitions sponsored by the U. S. State Department and The Smithsonian Institute, and his works are included in the holdings of public collections and museums throughout the United States and Europe. For more information on the artist and his art, visit the Jonathan Talbot online Studio.

Utahna Faith lives and writes in New Orleans. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Letters and Life, Night Train, and other literary magazines. Her story "Tracking the Double Yes" is included in the anthology French Quarter Fiction. Utahna is the flash fiction editor for 3am Magazine and is the editor of the forthcoming publication Wild Strawberries: a journal of flash fiction and prose poetry , plus the Utahna Faith website.

Rethabile Masilo was born in Lesotho in southern Africa. A multi-lingual poetic citizen of the world, Masilo has lived in South Africa, Kenya, the USA, and currently resides in France. His poems have appeared in the magazines Orbis (England) and Sethala (Lesotho) and, not incidentally, Canopic Jar #1. He is webmaster of Poéfrika, a weblog dedicated to creative Africa-inspired writing.

Robert B. Gentry grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, and for the last 31 years has lived in Jacksonville, FL. He won first place for short fiction in the national First Coast Writers' Festival Contest, had a prize-winning entry in the University of California's Quest for Peace Writing Contest, and was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His publications include articles and stories in newspapers and magazines, two college humanities texts, and A College Tells Its Story, the first oral history of a U.S. educational institution (Florida Community College) in book form, and he is an editor and co-founder of WriteCorner.com, a new online resource for writers and readers.

Doug Hoekstra is a native of Chicago currently residing in Nashville. He has carved a unique niche in the singer-songwriter tradition, and in between his frequent tours of the US and Europe he has found time to hone his talents as a prose stylist. Remarkably prolific, Hoekstra has published stories and essays in numerous print and web magazines, including Flying Shoes, The Maverick Press, Bouillabaisse, Cake, Alto Palo Review, and even Canopic Jar (#4 & 9). His full-length Hard Boiled-Heroes and Renegade Romantics tome is slated to be published by Scarecrow Press in 2004. Among his much-acclaimed CD releases are When the Tubes Begin to Glow, Rickety Stairs, Make Me Believe, and Around the Margins. His latest release is Waiting (Paste Records, www.pastemusic.com), a CD full of songs that, as he states in the notes, "cut right through to the heart of material that dug deeper than anything I'd done before, and as a result, capture something closer to that intimate moment of creative inception." For more info, visit the official Doug Hoekstra website.

Hannah Leah has previously published poems in 42Opus, Sand to Glass, Prosodia, and a CD entitled Under the Joybox, among other venues. She is a multi-dimensional artist, often working in complementary mediums and genres. As she states, "I write through perspectives and integrate poetry with art. My poems color my art, my art defines my words." She is currently collaborating on an Oregon anthology of poets against the war and nourishing the city of Portland with "the interconnective fruit of an organization of artists."

James Hughey is a vagabond singer/shouter/songwriter/poet currently snooping around the woods and townships of north Georgia.

Charles E. Rice is the author of several published essays and stories. His The View From My Ridge is a posthumously published collection of autobiographical essays and other writings now available from Canopic Publishing.

Pictured (l/r): James Hughey, Doug Hoekstra, Utahna Faith, Rethabile Masilo, Charles Rice, P.R.;

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