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Adorning the cover of the first-ever print edition of the new  Islandia Journal quarterly magazine is the image of an Everglades Griffin. Part lion, part alligator (because Florida), and part bird, this mythical creature is both fantastical and practical all at once. Islandia — pronounced with or without a Spanish accent — is all about the fantastic. As the tiny print on the third page puts it, “ Islandia Journal is a (sub)tropical periodical of prose, poetry, and visual art.” To pu...

Photo by Jessica Lipscomb Adorning the cover of the first-ever print edition of the new Islandia Journalquarterly magazine is the image of an Everglades Griffin. Part lion, part alligator (because Florida), and part bird, this mythical creature is both fantastical and practical all at once. Islandia — pronounced with or without a Spanish accent — is all about the fantastic. As the tiny prin...

Katz has been slowly brewing the idea of starting a local zine for a handful of years. The high-school English teacher says the confinement of the pandemic was a pivotal moment. “During the pandemic, I kind of felt this hole in my life where physical interaction with my artistic community, my writing community, used to exist,” he tells New Times. “It felt like the right time to launch a print magazine that could bring people together while not having to do it in person quite yet.” Kat...