Better Than Starbucks
Poetry and Fiction Journal
. . . if you love diversity and creative writing in any and every form, then you’re in the right place . . .
May 2021
Vol VI No II
Published quarterly:
February, May, August,
and November.
Cover Art
We like to use images of original art — paintings, drawings, etc. for our covers. If you are an artist and have a work you would like to submit for consideration as a possible future cover, please send it to us at betterthanstarbucks2@gmail.com.
If you are an artist or a photographer and have an image you think would make a great cover, please submit it. ​A high resolution (300 px min) is required. Below are the artworks and images we have used for our covers to date.
​Thank you!
Vera Ignatowitsch, Editor-in-chief
Our logo is based on
a drawing by
Paul Klee (1879–1940)
at the core 1935
February 2018
Lucy © Jared Carter
March 2018 Exit © Tendai Rinos Mwanaka
April 2018 © James Pritchett
via unsplash.com
May 2018
© Bob Whitmire
Flowers Wide Enough to Wrap a Fairy In!
oil on canvas, 38.5 x 39 inches
© Philip Sutton RA June 2018
July 2018
The Ancient of Days, 1794, William Blake
September 2018
Mulberry Tree, 1889, Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890)
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November 2018
Red House, Petrograd
Abraham Manievich (1883-1942)
January 2019
Starry Night 1922-1924,
Edvard Munch (1863–1944)
March 2019
Wiosna w Gościeradzu
(Spring in Goscieradz) 1933
Leon Wyczółkowski (1852–1936)
September 2019
A Waterfall 1910
by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
May 2019
Trees Mirrored in a Pond 1907 by Egon Schiele (1890–1918)
November 2019
Brita at the Piano, 1908,
by Carl Larsson (1853–1919)
July 2019
Interior, Morning
by Patrick William Adam (1854-1929)
January 2020
© Josh Hild via Unsplash
March 2020
Orchard Bordered by Cypresses, 1888,
by Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890)
September 2020
Forest floor with mushrooms
Anthonore Christensen (1849–1926)
May 2020
Gone Fishin’ is a 12 x 9
watercolor painting by Phil Rowan
February 2021
Page from a Priest’s Book by Betty White
Photograph by Andre Beneteau
July 2020
Le Puy le rocher, Corneille by Herbert Davis Richter (1874-1955)
May 2021
Lighthouse in Westkapelle, 1910
by Piet Mondrian