Poetry

Aaron Reeder writes from Albuquerque, New Mexico. His poems have appeared in Washington Square Review, Literary Orphans, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and others. He is the author of the chapbook DAWN (Orange Monkey Publishing, 2015) and is Editor-in-Chief of Blue Mesa Review.

Amie Whittemore is the author of the poetry collection Glass Harvest (Autumn House Press) and co-founder of the Charlottesville Reading Series in Virginia. Her poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Sycamore Review, Smartish Pace, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere. She teaches English at Middle Tennessee State University.

Ash Bowen is the author of The Even Years of Marriage (winner, 2012 Orphic Prize, Dream Horse Press). Other work has appeared in New England Review, Blackbird, Baltimore Review, Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, Best New Poets, and elsewhere in print and online.  He teaches creative writing and literature at Minot State University.

Carolyn Guinzio is the author of six collections, most recently How Much Of What Falls Will Be Left When It Gets To The Ground? (Tolsun Books, 2018) and Ozark Crows (Spuyten-Duyvil, 2018). Among her previous books are Spoke & Dark (Red Hen, 2012), winner of the To The Lighthouse/A Room Of Her Own Prize, and Spine (Parlor, 2016). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, Harvard Review, Bomb, Agni, and many other journals.

Chelsea Dingman’s first book, Thaw, was chosen by Allison Joseph to win the National Poetry Series (University of Georgia Press, 2017). Her second poetry collection, Through a Small Ghost, won The Georgia Poetry Prize (University of Georgia Press, 2020). She is also the author of the chapbook, What Bodies Have I Moved (Madhouse Press, 2018).

Christopher Emery has been teaching at Arizona State University since the fall of 2008, where he earned his M.F.A. in Creative Writing. He has worked as a teaching assistant, faculty associate, and an instructor. Mr. Emery is honors faculty on the Downtown Phoenix campus and has served as a Personnel Committee Representative for Languages and Cultures. You can find more of his poetry by visiting VCU's Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts (vol. 15 no. 1).

Daniel was born in Spain. He studied French Literature as an undergrad (French Lycée in San Sebastian). He now lives and writes in Switzerland with his wife and two children. Daniel's work is forthcoming or has been recently featured in Best of Small Fictions 2016 (Queen's Ferry Press), LA Review, PULP Literature and Berkeley Poetry Review. Daniel is a Pushcart nominee (2015).

Eric Tran is a queer Vietnamese writer and a resident physician in psychiatry in Asheville, NC, where he is also an associate editor at Orison Books. His debut book of poems, The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer, won the Autumn House Press Emerging Writer's contest. He is also the author of the chapbooks Revisions and Affairs with Men in Suits. His work has been featured in Poetry Daily and Best of the Net and appears or is forthcoming in Pleiades, Iowa Review, 32 Poems, and elsewhere.

Joseph Felkers is a junior at Catholic Central High School, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His work appears or is forthcoming in Superstition Review, Emerge Literary Journal, and The Daphne Review, among others. He is an editor for Polyphony High School, a poetry reader and past-mentee with The Adroit Journal, and an ice cream connoisseur at his local journal.

Kat Lewis is a MFA Candidate in Poetry at the University of Idaho where she serves as Managing Editor for Fugue Literary Journal and the photographer for the English Department. Her poetry can also be found in Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment, The Merrimack Review, velvet-tail, and forthcoming in The Fourth River’s “Tributaries.” 

Kate Fetherston is an artist and poet living in Montpelier, Vermont. Kate’s first book of poems, Until Nothing More Can Break, was released in 2012. Her poems and essays in numerous journals including North American Review, Hunger Mountain, and Third Coast. Kate’s received grants from the Vermont Council on the Arts and Vermont Studio Center. Her art is an intuitive interpretation of the visual world explored through color, texture, and layering. Kate’s shown in Vermont and California and her work is in private collections around the country.

Kimberly Grabowski Strayer is a poet and horsewoman from Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Pretty Owl Poetry, VECTOR Press, and 45th Parallel, among others. Her chapbook, Afterward, is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. She is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Poetry at The University of Pittsburgh.

Marilyn McCabe’s book of poems Glass Factory  was published by The Word Works in Spring 2016. Her poem “On Hearing the Call to Prayer Over the Marcellus Shale on Easter Morning” was awarded A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Orlando Prize. Her book of poetry Perpetual Motion was published by The Word Works in 2012 as the winner of the Hilary Tham Capitol Collection contest. A grant from the New York State Council on the Arts resulted in videopoem "At Freeman's Farm," which was published on The Continental Review and Motion Poems. She blogs about writing and reading at marilynonaroll.wordpress.com.

Marylyn is interested in addressing the queer feminine body, existence in liminal spaces, the parameters of interaction whether public or personal, and the conditions of alienation and marginalisation in her work. Marylyn Tan is a full-time linguistics major, poet, and artist who has performed at the Singapore Biennale, SPORE Art Salon, IndigNation SG, the Singapore Writers Festival, SPEAK., and so on. She has also been featured in various print anthologies, such as Rollercoasters and Bedsheets, and the upcoming A Luxury We Must Afford and Inheritance | The Anthology. She has been called an 'erotic poet', and writes for your bewilderment.

Meriwether Clarke is a poet and adjunct professor living in Los Angeles, CA. Her work has recently been see in Juked, Memorious, The Journal, and Salt Hill, among others.

Natalie Young is a founding editor of the poetry magazine Sugar House Review. By day, she works as an art director for an ad agency based out of Salt Lake City. Recent publications include Drunken Boat, Green Mountains Review, Tampa Review, Rattle, South Dakota Review, Los Angeles Times, Tar River Poetry, and others. Natalie is left-handed, half Puerto Rican, and a fan of Oscar the Grouch and purple potatoes. NatalieYoungArts.com

Robert Krut is the author of three books: The Now Dark Sky Setting Us All on Fire (Codhill/SUNY Press, 2019), which received the Codhill Poetry Award, This is the Ocean (Bona Fide Books, 2013), and The Spider Sermons (BlazeVox, 2009).  He teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and lives in Los Angeles.

Roy G. Guzmán is a Honduran poet whose first collection is coming out from Graywolf Press on May 5, 2020. Raised in Miami, Florida, Roy is the recipient of a 2019 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Their work has been included in the Best New Poets 2017 anthology and Best of the Net 2017. Roy holds degrees from the University of Minnesota, Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, and the Honors College at Miami Dade College. They currently live in Minneapolis, where they are pursuing a PhD in Cultural Studies at the University of Minnesota.

Ruben Rodriguez is a MFA student at the University of New Mexico where he studies poetry. He is the fiction editor of The Great American Lit Mag and author of the chapbook We Do What We Want (Orange Monkey Publishing, 2015). His poetry has been deemed fit for consumption by Passages North, Beecher’s, Forklift Ohio, Potomac Review, Bayou Magazine and others. You can find him at www.rubenstuff.com.

Sarah Carey is an award-winning veterinary public relations specialist, science writer and poet. She holds a master’s degree in English with a creative writing concentration from Florida State University. Her work has appeared in Rattle, The Carolina Quarterly, Portland Review, Concho River Review, South Dakota Review, Arsenic Lobster and other journals. Her debut chapbook of poems, The Heart Contracts, (Finishing Line Press) was published in 2016. She works for the University of Florida and lives in Gainesville.