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"I never mentioned my mother’s food and exercise habits to my counselors when I was hospitalized. Looking back now, this surprises me, but I recall at the time it seeming too facile and too ordinary to make note of, as if these cravings, these denials, these grim hours of fanatical calorie-counting and calorie-burning were the foundation, not of obsession or illness, but of ordinary womanhood."

From "Tell Me About Yourself" by Dana Shavin.

This International Women's Day, we celebrate author Dana Shavin and her extraordinary essay featured in Lime Hawk Issue 13. "Tell Me About Yourself" is a chapter from Shavin's memoir "The Body Tourist" and anthologized in "Parts Unbound," Lime Hawk's print collection of essays about mental illness and health.

"Better than any other genre, nonfiction has the power to reveal the absurdity and irony that saturate our human lives. In Dana Shavin’s essay, “Tell Me About Yourself,” you may feel uncomfortable chuckling as a well-to-do mother and daughter, both suffering from eating disorders, choose to eat lunch at a Wendy’s where they order “a lone dry potato” and “six pale lettuce leaves” for which the mother demands “a cruet of vinegar” from the baffled Wendy’s server. Shavin reveals the bony spine of life with anorexia and before you can look away you will find yourself consumed by it, sitting uncomfortably in “a thin sheath of skin” that is not enough to protect either of you from the pain."

-LH nonfiction editor Lo Williams

Read Shavin's essay in full at www.limehawk.org/dana-shavin-tell-me-about-yourself.

Dana Shavin - Tell Me About Yourself — Lime Hawk My mother is driving me to the interview. The reasonable part of me knows this is a bad idea and that I must hide her existence from my prospective boss. But her presence is not, in my twenty-one-year-old mind, the main obstacle to getting this job any more than is my alarmingly low weight, or the f...

“What they say about death is true: cold-clawed and whimsical it comes, cynical and wintry. For weeks I watched her struggle to stand, and bathed her legs in warm blue cloth until she settled, like the leaves. I made soup and commented that the pin-oaks we put inside the soil twenty years before had given birth to smaller trees, a scatter of trees to the south. Her body, though barren, would be there with them, even in the snow.”
From “Onondaga After Susan” by Carl Boon. Read it in full in Lime Hawk / Issue 13 at limehawk.org/carl-boon-onondaga-after-susan.

At long last! The new winter issue of Lime Hawk is here. We are delighted to share Issue 13, which features a stunning collection of prose, poetry, film, and art by Carl Boon, Julia Leverone, Dana Shavin, Athena Harden, Lauren Camp, Tyrel Kessinger, Nadia Arioli, Andrew Sullivan, Stacey Gruver, Ross West, Shira Zaid, Leah Oates, and Eddie Shore, with a gorgeous cover by Maureen Cantara.

Cozy up and read / view / explore / absorb all of Issue 13 online at limehawk.org/issue-13.

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A look back at John Bonanni's poem "November Ninth." Read it online in full in Issue 12.

https://www.limehawk.org/november-ninth-john-bonanni

Cold Storage is going to London! We're very excited to be screening at the inaugural Four Seasons Film Festival on February 4, 2018, at the remarkable Cadogan Hall. Tickets are available on the festival website. See you there!

Four Seasons Film Festival Holmlands proudly present, the Four Seasons Film Festival; a new festival for London, celebrating the best in independent film making and the arts.

Cold Storage will be screening at Anthology Film Archives in December! Come hang with us, NYC friends!

"Lime Hawk exists at a time when it is necessary, a creative reminder that we are responsible for what happens to the planet around us. We have read news articles and essays about the topic, but Issue 12 of Lime Hawk gives a refreshing outlook through the scope of thoughtfully-written poetry and prose."

Many thanks to NewPages.com and Katy Haas for reviewing Lime Hawk / Issue 12. Read the full review: https://www.newpages.com/literary-magazine-reviews/lime-hawk-august-2017

And if you haven't yet read Issue 12, it's all available online right here ---> http://www.limehawk.org/issue-12-contents

Issue 12 Contents Lime Hawk is an independent artist collective and literary press based in Redding, Connecticut, producing works that muse on environment, culture, and sustainability.

Congratulations to our Sundress Publications Best of the Net nominations for 2017:
"Searching for the Reservoir" / Michael Welch Writer
"Sally" / Mark Kelleher
"Inca Trail, 2011" / Savannah Brooks
"Part-time and Full-time Volunteers Needed!" / Johnathan Harper
"Dwelling Near Hills, Mounds, and Hillocks" / Laura Madeline Wiseman
"Central Avenue" / David Morgan O'Connor
"Memo: Clarifying Our Professional Values" / Kodi Saylor
"Self Portrait as the Salt Marsh" / Ari Wolff
"Topological Memory" / Doug Paul Case
"B Reactor" / Elle Fournier

Read the pieces here:
http://www.limehawk.org/issue-10-contents
http://www.limehawk.org/issue-11-contents

Issue 10 Contents Lime Hawk Literary Arts Collective is a group of storytellers, artists, and activists committed to promoting social change through the written and performing arts.

"in the hands of branches—the copse of ash—
magpies again..."

"Tiding" / Daniel Barnum

"Attese Consapevoli" / Paolo Di Rosa

Tiding - Daniel Barnum Lime Hawk is an independent artist collective and literary press based in Redding, Connecticut, producing works that muse on environment, culture, and sustainability.

"Lindy laid the raw fish down on a whorled wooden board and started by carving the head out. 'Stay here tonight and take your truck down in the morning,' she said. She sliced down the middle and started removing all the pieces from inside and stored them on the end of the board like coveted treasures. 'Nina will be home at noon.' She sliced along an invisible seam, from collarbone to tail. 'Take the bookcase up the front stairs for her. She'll take it the rest of the way.' Stomach meat chopped in pieces, set aside. She plucked out the pin bones. She could have been sewing, tenderly, restoring. 'Go and light the grill for me.'

It was not an act of butchering."

From "Postcards from Alaska" / Abbie Lahmers
Lime Hawk Issue 12


Visual art / "Attese Consapevoli" / Paolo Di Rosa

Postcards from Alaska - Abbie Lahmers Lime Hawk is an independent artist collective and literary press based in Redding, Connecticut, producing works that muse on environment, culture, and sustainability.