Everyone Needs an Angel
[Digital art]
Copyright © by Alexis Rotella. All rights reserved.

Imagination
[From a series of photographs shot in Sicily]
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Morning in Palermo
[From a series of photographs shot in Sicily]
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Spring Is Here
[Digital art]
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Night Wind
[Digital art]
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—Images above are reproduced here from the artist’s Facebook galleries with her permission.

Alexis Rotella

is the curator/editor of Unsealing Our Secrets, a MeToo poetry anthology available on Kindle and Amazon. She is an award-winning poet and digital artist who has been writing Japanese poetry forms in English since the late 1970s. Her passions include her acupuncture practice in Arnold, Maryland and mobile photography, which is featured regularly on Instagram and Facebook sites.

Ms. Rotella’s work has been published throughout the world, and she is the author of dozens of books. Her latest collection of Japanese forms in English, The Color Blue, was released by Red Moon Press in 2017. Her out-of-print haiku and tanka books, as well as her newest works, can be read on Kindle. Her digital art is for sale online at Alexis Rotella Designs.

Self-Portrait © 2018 By Alexis Rotella All rights reserved

Don’t try to figure me out everything I write is fiction all of it true —From Alexis Rotella’s Lip Prints: Tanka and Other Short Short Poems, 1979–2007 (Modern English Tanka Press, 2007); poem and self-portrait appear here with her permission.