Olivier Bochettaz and Marie Lecrivain, from Volume 2:1

Born in the French Alps, Olivier Bochettaz recently migrated to Long Beach in order to join the local community of poets at the M.F.A. in poetry program at the California State University. His poetry can be found in RipRap, Cadence Collective and Remedial Art, and his critical works in DUMAS Archives.

His poem in Volume 2:1, "Telluric Symphony", is a naturalist's dream come true.

          there in a green mild bushy bower

                filled with resinous buds and sleepy flowers

                      is a crossway-inn for blue birds

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Marie Lecrivain is a photographer, writer, and the editor-publisher of poeticdiversity: the litzine of Los Angeles. She is also the editor of several anthologies, including Sybaritic Press's upcoming Near Kin: Words and Art Inspired by Octavia E. Butler.

Her poem in Volume 2:1, "In the Shadow of Gary Numan, High Priest of the X-Gens", is a narrative of nostalgia that maintains intense immediacy. If you're an X-Gen, it's sure to take you back.

          We are golems who wish to shed our status quo and pogo like we
          used to.

                                                             ...

          We become what we once were, the bastard generation who danced
          in the hinterlands of the cold war. We become our own mythology.

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Take a look inside Synesthesia Literary Journal Volume 2:1 to read Olivier's and Marie's poems in full!