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Humana Obscura

Humana Obscura is an independent nature-focused literary magazine. The magazine accepts poetry, short prose under 1,000 words, and artwork in various medium.
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As our name suggests—“obscured human”—we focus on work where the human element is concealed but not entirely absent, aiming to revive the nature genre. Humana Obscura’s mission is to publish and promote the best work of today’s voices and talents. Our intention is to inspire readers and enrich their lives while providing an inclusive space for elevating the voices, expressions, and creative work o

f our contributors. Founded in 2020, Humana Obscura is published online and in print twice yearly, and features work from around the world. Visit our website for submission guidelines.

11/05/2024

Detail of “Intense Autumn Feeling” by Karin Wegmann in the Fall 2024 issue of kawezuerichphoto
Karin Wegmann lives in Zurich, Switzerland. She has loved photography since she was a teenager and took her first pictures in the analog age. However, her professional life has developed in a different direction. Currently she is focused on abstract landscape and nature photography. She loves that abstract photography allows the viewer freedom in interpreting the image, thus enabling a kind of escape from reality. She often uses ICM techniques or in-camera multiple exposures or concentrates on details. Her photos are only minimally edited. In 2023, one of her photos was published in Hintology’s first print magazine. See more of her work on Instagram

11/05/2024

Excerpt of “Night Before the Ware Sent Us Home” by Marcia L. Hurlow in the Fall 2024 issue of . Read the full piece by clicking the link in our bio.
Marcia L. Hurlow‘s first full-length poetry collection, Anomie, won the Edges Prize. She also has six award-winning chapbooks, including Dog Physics, forthcoming from Main Street Rag. She is co-editor of Kansas City Voices (soon to be re-branded as Kansas City Review) and lives in Lenexa, Kansas.

11/04/2024

“Through the Trees” by Jess Cherofsky in the Fall 2024 issue of .wanders

11/03/2024

Haiku by Debbie Strange in the Fall 2024 issue of
Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet, visual artist, and photographer from Canada whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world, to others, and to herself. Strange’s work has received multiple awards and thousands of her poems and artworks have been published worldwide. Her most recent book, The Language of Loss: Haiku & Tanka Conversations, won the Sable Books 2019 International Women’s Haiku Contest and Haiku Canada’s 2022 Marianne Bluger Chapbook Award. Her award-winning haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks, is forthcoming from Snapshot Press in 2024. Please visit her publication archive at debbiemstrange.blogspot.com for further information.

11/01/2024

Detail of “Countercurrents” by Azeb Hameed in the Fall 2024 issue of
Azeb Hameed is a Manhattan-based psychiatrist and photographer from Kerala, India. He has a passion for capturing the play of light on the surface of water. Through an impressionistic lens, his work often depicts the unfathomable patterns that emerge from the dialogue between earth, water, and sky. He strives to portray the slender currents of meaning, rising in a world without eyes to behold its own splendor. Seeking the sun’s footprints with his lightbrush, his journey has taken him to a number of places—from the slopes of the Adirondacks, to a sandbar between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

10/31/2024

“November is Rain” by Andrea Aldrete in the Fall 2024 issue of .writesnow
Andrea Aldrete is a published author from a small Texas border town where she savors every bit of her rich Hispanic culture. She is a mother of two small children, and a wife to an amazing husband. She lives a sober life that allows her to enjoy her loved ones creating long, meaningful memories.

10/31/2024

Detail of “Passage” by Mandy Merkel in the Fall 2024 issue of
Mandy Merkel, born in East Berlin in 1986, has a strong bond with her city, where she has lived ever since. Despite early creative adventures, she didn’t consistently pursue art. In 2020, after a decade without serious practice, she returned to creating. Since then, she’s explored various techniques, focusing on painting, printing, textiles, and photography. She uses photography to capture small moments and significant changes in her city and beyond. Preferring analog photography, she finds it forces her to slow down and be more aware. Additionally, she cherishes the surprise of seeing the developed photos for the first time. Follow her on Instagram @‌berlinerauswahl.

10/30/2024

“With the Rain” by Rebecca Weil in the Fall 2024 issue of .weil.106
Rebecca Weil is the author of the award-winning book Bring Me the Ocean. Recent writing has been published in River Teeth’s Beautiful Things, The Journal of Wild Culture, and Phoebe, in which her piece “Old Friends,” was a finalist in the 2024 nonfiction contest. In addition, her poem, “Hair Thief: Kleptotrichy,” was a finalist in the 2023 Seneca Park Zoo Nature Poetry Contest for emerging poets. Weil is completing a collection of essays and poems tracing love, loss, and solace found in connection with nature in Upstate New York.

10/30/2024

Detail of “Desert Squall” by David A. Goodrum in the Fall 2024 issue of
David A. Goodrum, photographer/writer, lives in Corvallis, Oregon. His photography has graced the covers of several art and literature magazines, most recently Cirque Journal, Willows Wept Review, Blue Mesa Review, Ilanot Review, Red Rock Review, The Moving Force Journal, Snapdragon Journal, Vita Poetica, and appeared in many others. In the quickness of our modern lives, we often lose the details as we step over them, look away, stare straight ahead, distract ourselves. Instead, these photos are from experiences of pausing and contemplation. See additional work, both photos and poems, at www.davidgoodrum.com and on Instragram and X (Twitter) @‌goodrum.

10/28/2024

Tanka by John Vukmirovich in the Fall 2024 issue of
John Vukmirovich is an independent scholar, freelance writer, and book reviewer. In 2000, he earned his PhD in English from Loyola University Chicago; his dissertation was on Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. His essay, Loren Eiseley, The Hidden Teacher, appeared in the winter 2023 issue of Catamaran Literary Reader. His book reviews have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement and the Journal of American Studies. He has also published numerous op-eds in the Chicago Sun-Times on educational, environmental, and economic issues. His poetry has appeared in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, and Presence, among others.

10/27/2024

“Rose” by Back Cover Artist Amalia Díaz in the Fall 2024 issue of

10/25/2024

Two haiku by Melissa Laussmann in the Fall 2024 issue of
Melissa Laussmann resides in a small town in Texas with her daughter. When she’s not in the campus library where she works, you can find her playing mahjong, taking long walks outdoors, watching movies, or reading classic Japanese haiku. You can find her poems in journals such as Three Line Poetry, Haiku Journal, Cold Moon Journal, and Poetry Quarterly.

10/24/2024

Detail of “Scattered” by Jess Cherofsky in the Fall 2024 issue of .wanders
Jess Cherofsky’s work focuses on Indigenous rights and supporting the healing of biocultural relationships. Cherofsky began practicing macrophotography in 2021 after falling in love with mosses, and these explorations at the scale of moss invite deeper relationship with the tiny ones who sustain our world. This photography serves as meditation, gratitude practice, and love letters to and about our fellow living beings. Cherofsky’s work has appeared in Humana Obscura and The Hopper. Cherofsky is q***r and Ashkenazi Jewish and lives on the ancestral and current homelands of the Onondaga Nation (known also as Central New York State).

10/23/2024

“Migrating” by Kay Bomans in the Fall 2024 issue of
Kay Bomans is writing again after a long hiatus, returning to a realm which has always been woven into the very core of herself. Determined to mend the torn threads, she has been making slow and tentative but also persistent and sure steps back to that part of her, where words are spun into poems.

10/22/2024

“Bliss” by Cover Artist Rose-Marie Keller-Flaig in the Fall 2024 issue of

10/21/2024

Excerpt of “Migrations” by K. DeCristofaro in the Fall 2024 issue of . Read the full piece by clicking the link in our bio.
K. DeCristofaro is a poet and multidisciplinary artist living in Boston, Massachusetts, with her cat, dog, and partner. She is a hobbyist green witch, an herbal tea devotee, a horror film enthusiast, and a joyfully q***r force of nature. Her work can be found in publication by Querencia Press, Beyond Q***r Words, Nightshade Publishing, Bottlecap Press, and more. Find DiCristofaro on Instagram at

10/20/2024

Detail of “Faith” by Anne Kulou in the Fall 2024 issue of
Anne Kulou is a self-taught neurodivergent artist starting to write poetry in childhood to express her non-dualistic experience of the natural world, profoundly interwoven with her inward journey. In 2022, she added photography as an equally powerful and subtle medium of creative expression, as another way to say the unspeakable. She seeks to immerse into that shared realm where dualisms dissolve, where connection and wholeness become tangible. Her work is published in a photo book and three magazines. She lives in Germany and works as a forensic psychologist and trauma-sensitive Gestalt psychotherapist.

10/17/2024

Excerpt of “First Frost” by Diane Perazzo in the Fall 2024 issue of . Read the full piece by clicking the link in our bio.
Diane Perazzo is a poet, legacy writing facilitator and eco witch. She is co-creator of the art and poetry exhibit “Sowing the Future: Women Farmers + EcoAgriculture” and author of the chapbook Six Poems for Healing (illustrated by the late Amara Hollow Bones). Her poetry has been published in earth-based spirituality and ecology-focused publications. For many years, Perazzo was a writer/editor focusing on health equity, mental health, and climate change. As she eases into her elder years, she is focused on crafting verses and stories that strive to echo the magical and mythic voices of the living land and her beings.

10/16/2024

“Dewdrops” by Heidi Spitzig in the Fall 2024 issue of .spitzig.photography

10/15/2024

“Autumn Equinox” by Amy Smith in the Fall 2024 issue of
Amy Smith is deeply influenced by the land, the elements, and by the questions that arise as she wonders about the world. She finds poetry in the tiny cracks between things—between hand and pen, between paper and ink, between oddly connected kin. She writes because writing roots her into spaces that feel like home.

10/14/2024

Detail of “Ferns” by Heidi Spitzig in the Fall 2024 issueof .spitzig.photography
Heidi Spitzig (she/they) is a poet, photographer, and crisis counselor living in the Finger Lakes region of New York with her partner, 8 cats, and a 14-year-old corn snake. She has taught workshops on healing using various creative outlets and holds a Master’s in Transpersonal Psychology. She’s an avid nature-lover and can often be found far in the forest, reading poems to trees or any rock that will listen.

10/13/2024

Haiku by Elysha Snider in the Fall 2024 issue of
Elysha Snider is an educator, mother, and writer. She has an MA in English from the University of Calgary, and her work has appeared in the Canadian Literature journal, Impostor: A Poetry Journal, filling Station magazine, and Poetry Pause. Originally from Southern California, she currently lives in Alberta with her family.

10/13/2024

Detail of “At Home Here” by Featured Artist Jocelyn Elizabeth in the Fall 2024 issue of

10/11/2024

“Praise to the Morning” by Lynne Schilling in the Fall 2024 issue of
Lynne Schilling is a retired academic who has been writing poetry sporadically for over thirty years. Until recently, she wrote mainly for herself but has recently started publishing her work. She lives in Connecticut surrounded by trees and gardens that have a distinctive beauty in every season.

10/10/2024

Detail of “Nightlights” by Lisa Cassell-Arms in the Fall 2024 issue of .
Lisa Cassell-Arms is a fine art photographer focused on capturing the wonder and beauty of the natural world and our changing relationship with it. She reinterprets landscape and explores our perceptions and experiences of natural space, oftentimes finding dialogue between images by combining them across time and location. Cassell-Arms discovered her love of photography as a young teenager. An early Polaroid camera and the complete Time-Life Library of Photography provided great early inspiration and self-education in the mechanics, principles, and history of photography. Her work has exhibited in galleries and online.

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Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm
Saturday	8am - 5pm
Sunday	8am - 5pm

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