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 . . .
November 2022
Vol VII No IV
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 WyczóÅ‚kowski (1852–1936)
May 2019
Trees Mirrored in a Pond 1907 by Egon Schiele (1890–1918)
July 2019
Interior, Morning
by Patrick William Adam (1854-1929)
September 2019
A Waterfall 1910
by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
November 2019
Brita at the Piano, 1908,
by Carl Larsson (1853–1919)
January 2020
© Josh Hild via Unsplash
March 2020
Orchard Bordered by Cypresses, 1888,
by Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890)
May 2020
Gone Fishin’ is a 12 x 9
watercolor painting by Phil Rowan
July 2020
Le Puy le rocher, Corneille by Herbert Davis Richter (1874-1955)
September 2020
Forest floor with mushrooms
Anthonore Christensen (1849–1926)
February 2021
Page from a Priest’s Book by Betty White
Photograph by Andre Beneteau
May 2021
Lighthouse in Westkapelle, 1910
by Piet Mondrian
November 2021
Genoa (1913–1914)
by Aleksandra Ekster
February 2022
Svanen (1914)
by Hilma Af Klint
May 2022
Chosen Site (1940)
by Paul Klee
August 2022
Golden Hour in Venice, 1895,
by Willie Betty Newman
November 2022
Mountain and Sky (1925)
by Arthur Dove