It's dark out there and it seems like it's getting darker. More than ever it feels important to support what we love and work intentionally to build communities that bring a little light to the world.
Lamp Lit is our attempt to do that, and an expression of gratitude for an experience of art, writing and creativity that has kept us whole and real. We want to share what we love, and invite others to join us.
About us:
We’re about curation, not judgment, here at Lamp Lit. Just two humans sharing writing and art we love for the sheer joy of it.
We're like you. We write and revise, edit and worry, then revise and worry again, then read and read and read. We don't have MFAs or prizes or lofty institutions standing behind us, and we don't care if you do either.
What we bring is our lives lit up by art, our tastes and passions, idiosyncrasies, life experiences and our wholly earnest, unironic love of made things and their creators.
Jaime Lilley
by Michael
In this project we’ve stated we want to create something shining but folks, the only reason that’s possible it because of my co-curator, right here. Jaime is an essential light to many; her partner, her sons, her students, her other friends, but perhaps most importantly, to me. If not for her generosity, her honesty, her damn good sense, stunning good taste, piercing sense of humor, and frankly incredible-god-it-makes-me-sick-sometimes talent, I wouldn’t be the artist (or friend) I am now and am becoming.
Jaime’s work has appeared in Door=Jar, MEMEZINE, and elsewhere, with more to come soon. She lives in Prague (which is criminally unfair of her to be honest) with her family and the most terrible trees and clouds that I’m not at all envious of. Oh and Biscuit, the strictest orange n’ cream taskmaster to ever master a task.
Find her on Instagram and Bluesky
Michael C.
Jaime here:
Michael is a poet, an artist, father, friend to so many, and a builder of connections and community. He is the one-man-show behind the fantastic Poems & Whiskey podcast, where he talks to poets and other creative people and lets them talk, building webs of connection, solidarity, and empathy. He is kind, fiercely intelligent, and admirable in everything I know of him, and I am lucky to call him my friend.
He is also the author of Yellow Rose Effigy, a chapbook published by Bottlecap Press and his work can be found on The Engine Idling, Cosmic Daffodil Journal, and more. He lives in Texas with his son. I heard he likes pistachios.
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