Alan Britt, from Volume 3:1

Alan Britt served as judge for the 2013 The Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award. His interview at The Library of Congress for The Poet and the Poem aired on Pacifica Radio, January 2013. A new interview for Lake City Lights is available at http://lakecitypoets.com/AlanBritt.html. His latest books are Lost Among the Hours, Parabola Dreams (with Silvia Scheibli), and Alone with the Terrible Universe. He teaches English/Creative Writing at Towson University.

Alan had two poems —"Optical Illusion" and "Garden of Earthly Delights"— published in Volume 3:1. Below is an excerpt from the latter:

Those mysterious ergot dots sometimes appearing as beautiful monsters in Bosch paintings . . . Hieronymus, wild man of Western art, early surreal genius signaling
Goya, Dalí, Tanguy and Bacon. There’s a strange excitement upon entering Bosch  
. . . entering the brain of a beautiful heretic . . . almost like entering a house you’ve
lived in for 100 years, but suddenly rooms take on a fresh perspective, friends
devouring the fabric of sanity, dripping acid on the upper brain (despite God’s
pleadings)

The Garden of Eden by Jan the Elder Brueghel

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To read both of Alan's brilliantly orante pieces, flip to page 35 of Synesthesia Literary Journal Volume 3:1.