Poetry

Adrian C. Louis

Adrian C. Louis

Adrian C. Louis grew up in Nevada and is an enrolled member of the Lovelock Paiute Tribe. From 1984-97, Louis taught at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Reservation. He recently retired as Professor of English at Southwest Minnesota State.  Pleiades Press published his latest poems, Random Exorcisms, in 2016. 

Adrian C. Louis

Adrian C. Louis

Adrian C. Louis grew up in Nevada and is an enrolled member of the Lovelock Paiute Tribe. From 1984-97, Louis taught at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Reservation. He recently retired as Professor of English at Southwest Minnesota State.  Pleiades Press published his latest poems, Random Exorcisms, in 2016. 

Adrian C.
Louis

Amy Lemmon

Amy Lemmon

Amy Lemmon is the author of the forthcoming poetry collections Fine Motor (Sow's Ear Review Press) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press). Poems from the sequence ABBA: The Poems, written in collaboration with Denise Duhamel, have appeared or are forthcoming in Birmingham Poetry Review, Paterson Literary Journal, and the Cincinnati Review. She is an associate professor of English at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

Amy Lemmon

Amy Lemmon

Amy Lemmon is the author of the forthcoming poetry collections Fine Motor (Sow's Ear Review Press) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press). Poems from the sequence ABBA: The Poems, written in collaboration with Denise Duhamel, have appeared or are forthcoming in Birmingham Poetry Review, Paterson Literary Journal, and the Cincinnati Review. She is an associate professor of English at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

Amy
Lemmon

Denise Duhamel

Denise Duhamel

Denise Duhamel's most recent book Two and Two (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005) is the winner of Binghamton University's Milt Kessler Book Award. She and Amy Lemmon are currently working on a series of poems with these two constraints: the stanzas are written in abba rhyme, and each poem must mention ABBA, the 70s pop group, at least once. Duhamel is an associate professor of English at Florida International University in Miami.

Denise Duhamel

Denise Duhamel

Denise Duhamel's most recent book Two and Two (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005) is the winner of Binghamton University's Milt Kessler Book Award. She and Amy Lemmon are currently working on a series of poems with these two constraints: the stanzas are written in abba rhyme, and each poem must mention ABBA, the 70s pop group, at least once. Duhamel is an associate professor of English at Florida International University in Miami.

Denise
Duhamel

Erica Maria Litz

Erica Maria Litz

Erica Maria Litz is the author of Lightning Forest, Lava Root, her first poetry collection, to be published in the coming year by Plain View Press. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in the journals Brink Magazine, Oranges & Sardines, Superstition Review, Literary Mama, Americanisado, Moondance, The Caribbean Writer and quiet Shorts. Of Colombian heritage, her poetry has been influenced by the culture and the musical roots of Latin America. She teaches English for Paradise Valley Community College and she is a volunteer poetry mentor with PEN Prison Writing Mentorship Program.

Erica Maria Litz

Erica Maria Litz

Erica Maria Litz is the author of Lightning Forest, Lava Root, her first poetry collection, to be published in the coming year by Plain View Press. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in the journals Brink Magazine, Oranges & Sardines, Superstition Review, Literary Mama, Americanisado, Moondance, The Caribbean Writer and quiet Shorts. Of Colombian heritage, her poetry has been influenced by the culture and the musical roots of Latin America. She teaches English for Paradise Valley Community College and she is a volunteer poetry mentor with PEN Prison Writing Mentorship Program.

Erica Maria
Litz

Irena Praitis

Irena Praitis

Irena Praitis is an associate professor of Literature and Creative Writing at California State University, Fullerton. She earned her PhD and MFA degrees from Arizona State University. In the spring of 2005, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Vilnius, Lithuania. Her poems, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Rattle, Mochila Review, Mid-America Poetry Review, International Poetry Review, Cold Mountain Review, The Iconoclast, The Connecticut River Review, and Interculturidd & Traduccin. Her collection of poems, Touch, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2004, and her collection of poems, Branches, was published by D-N.

Irena Praitis

Irena Praitis

Irena Praitis is an associate professor of Literature and Creative Writing at California State University, Fullerton. She earned her PhD and MFA degrees from Arizona State University. In the spring of 2005, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Vilnius, Lithuania. Her poems, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Rattle, Mochila Review, Mid-America Poetry Review, International Poetry Review, Cold Mountain Review, The Iconoclast, The Connecticut River Review, and Interculturidd & Traduccin. Her collection of poems, Touch, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2004, and her collection of poems, Branches, was published by D-N.

Irena
Praitis

Jeannine Savard

Jeannine Savard

Jeannine Savard is an Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University, Tempe campus where she has been teaching on the creative writing faculty for over twenty years. Her work has appeared in a variety of periodicals and journals, and her most recent manuscript of poems will be published by Red Hen Press in late 2009 or early 2010. Her books in print include Snow Water Cove (republished in Carnegie Mellon's Classic Contemporary Series, 2006), My Hand Upon Your Name (Red Hen Press, 2005), and& Trumpeter (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1993).

Jeannine Savard

Jeannine Savard

Jeannine Savard is an Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University, Tempe campus where she has been teaching on the creative writing faculty for over twenty years. Her work has appeared in a variety of periodicals and journals, and her most recent manuscript of poems will be published by Red Hen Press in late 2009 or early 2010. Her books in print include Snow Water Cove (republished in Carnegie Mellon's Classic Contemporary Series, 2006), My Hand Upon Your Name (Red Hen Press, 2005), and& Trumpeter (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1993).

Jeannine
Savard

Jim Daniels

Jim Daniels

Jim Daniels’ new book, Birth Marks, was published by BOA Editions in 2013. Other books published in 2011 include Trigger Man: More Tales of the Motor City, Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry, and All of the Above. In 2010, he wrote and produced the independent film "Mr. Pleasant,” which appeared in many film festivals across the country. He also published From Milltown to Malltown, a collaboration with photographer Charlee Brodsky. His poem "Factory Love" is displayed on the roof of a race car. A native of Detroit, Daniels teaches at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Jim Daniels

Jim Daniels

Jim Daniels’ new book, Birth Marks, was published by BOA Editions in 2013. Other books published in 2011 include Trigger Man: More Tales of the Motor City, Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry, and All of the Above. In 2010, he wrote and produced the independent film "Mr. Pleasant,” which appeared in many film festivals across the country. He also published From Milltown to Malltown, a collaboration with photographer Charlee Brodsky. His poem "Factory Love" is displayed on the roof of a race car. A native of Detroit, Daniels teaches at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Jim
Daniels

John Findura

John Findura

John Findura holds an MFA from The New School. His poetry and criticism appear in journals such as Mid-American Review, Verse, Fugue, Fourteen Hills, CutBank, Juked, elimae, No Tell Motel, H_NGM_N, Jacket, and Rain Taxi, among others. Born in Paterson, he lives and teaches in Northern New Jersey with his wife Lauren, their puppy, and a charm of finches.

John Findura

John Findura

John Findura holds an MFA from The New School. His poetry and criticism appear in journals such as Mid-American Review, Verse, Fugue, Fourteen Hills, CutBank, Juked, elimae, No Tell Motel, H_NGM_N, Jacket, and Rain Taxi, among others. Born in Paterson, he lives and teaches in Northern New Jersey with his wife Lauren, their puppy, and a charm of finches.

John
Findura

Kassy Scrivner

Kassy Scrivner

Kassy Scrivner is a recent graduate of Union Institute & University / Vermont College where she earned her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, Poetry, and Small Business Administration from the University of Redlands. Her work has been published in The Iowa Source, Cosmopsis Quarterly and has received Honorable Mention in the Jean Burden Prize for the American Academy of Poetry. Originally from Oregon, Ms. Scrivner now resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, where she is currently the Director of First Impressions for the Greater Phoenix Economic Council.

Kassy Scrivner

Kassy Scrivner

Kassy Scrivner is a recent graduate of Union Institute & University / Vermont College where she earned her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, Poetry, and Small Business Administration from the University of Redlands. Her work has been published in The Iowa Source, Cosmopsis Quarterly and has received Honorable Mention in the Jean Burden Prize for the American Academy of Poetry. Originally from Oregon, Ms. Scrivner now resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, where she is currently the Director of First Impressions for the Greater Phoenix Economic Council.

Kassy
Scrivner

Kelli Stafford

Kelli Stafford

Kelli Stafford lives in Oregon with her husband and children. She is in the low residency MFA program at the University of Nebraska. Her poems have appeared in 2River View, Millers Pond, Poetry Magazine, and Foliate Oak.

Kelli Stafford

Kelli Stafford

Kelli Stafford lives in Oregon with her husband and children. She is in the low residency MFA program at the University of Nebraska. Her poems have appeared in 2River View, Millers Pond, Poetry Magazine, and Foliate Oak.

Kelli
Stafford

Lois Roma-Deeley

Lois Roma-Deeley

Lois Roma-Deeley is the author of two collections of poetry. Her second book, northSight (2006), earned her a nod from the Los Angeles Book Prize nominating committee and received critical praise. Rules of Hunger, her first full-length poetry collection (2004), earned her a National Book Award nomination. Roma-Deeley has won numerous awards and honors for her poetry, has published in seven national anthologies, and her work has been featured in numerous literary journals nationwide. In collaborations with visual artists on several ekphrasis projects, Roma-Deeley's poems have been exhibited nationally and internationally.

Lois Roma-Deeley

Lois Roma-Deeley

Lois Roma-Deeley is the author of two collections of poetry. Her second book, northSight (2006), earned her a nod from the Los Angeles Book Prize nominating committee and received critical praise. Rules of Hunger, her first full-length poetry collection (2004), earned her a National Book Award nomination. Roma-Deeley has won numerous awards and honors for her poetry, has published in seven national anthologies, and her work has been featured in numerous literary journals nationwide. In collaborations with visual artists on several ekphrasis projects, Roma-Deeley's poems have been exhibited nationally and internationally.

Lois
Roma-Deeley

Matthew Frank

Matthew Frank

Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of Sagittarius Agitprop (forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press), and the chapbooks Four Hours to Mpumalanga (Pudding House Publications), and Aardvark (West Town Press). Recent work appears in The New Republic, Field, Epoch, Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, North American Review, Pleiades, and others. He is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship and an Artist's Grant to the Vermont Studio Center.

Matthew Frank

Matthew Frank

Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of Sagittarius Agitprop (forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press), and the chapbooks Four Hours to Mpumalanga (Pudding House Publications), and Aardvark (West Town Press). Recent work appears in The New Republic, Field, Epoch, Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, North American Review, Pleiades, and others. He is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship and an Artist's Grant to the Vermont Studio Center.

Matthew
Frank

Nathaniel Millard

Nathaniel Millard

Nathaniel Miles Millard, a PhD candidate at Utah State University in the Department of Environment and Society, currently teaches courses in Sustainability, Academic Writing, and Outdoor Education at California State University Chico. He has various research and creative publications. He can be found most evenings hiking a ridge line; while he writes in his notebook, his dog sniffs the air.  He maintains a blog he writes for his friends and family called fitweed.

Nathaniel Millard

Nathaniel Millard

Nathaniel Miles Millard, a PhD candidate at Utah State University in the Department of Environment and Society, currently teaches courses in Sustainability, Academic Writing, and Outdoor Education at California State University Chico. He has various research and creative publications. He can be found most evenings hiking a ridge line; while he writes in his notebook, his dog sniffs the air.  He maintains a blog he writes for his friends and family called fitweed.

Nathaniel
Millard

Pete Miller

Pete Miller

Pete Miller is a mental health worker and poet living in Seattle. He is the co-founder of the League of Citizens Concerned About Literature, a group that hangs hand washing poems in public restrooms.

Pete Miller

Pete Miller

Pete Miller is a mental health worker and poet living in Seattle. He is the co-founder of the League of Citizens Concerned About Literature, a group that hangs hand washing poems in public restrooms.

Pete
Miller

Robert Keim

Robert Keim

Robert Keim attended Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH where he received a Bachelor of Arts in History. He completed an MPhil in Medieval Studies at the University of Glasgow's Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and began PhD research at the Institute for Environmental History at the University of St. Andrews on the subject of species history. After one year he suspended his studies and relocated to Steamboat Springs, CO. He is currently at Dartmouth College pursuing a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies with a concentration in creative writing.

Robert Keim

Robert Keim

Robert Keim attended Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH where he received a Bachelor of Arts in History. He completed an MPhil in Medieval Studies at the University of Glasgow's Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and began PhD research at the Institute for Environmental History at the University of St. Andrews on the subject of species history. After one year he suspended his studies and relocated to Steamboat Springs, CO. He is currently at Dartmouth College pursuing a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies with a concentration in creative writing.

Robert
Keim

Rigoberto Gonzalez

Rigoberto Gonzalez

Rigoberto Gonzlez is the author of seven books, most recently of the memoir, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. A story collection, Men without Bliss, is forthcoming. The recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, and of various international artist residencies, he writes twice a month a Latino book column, now entering its seventh year, for the El Paso Times of Texas. He is contributing editor for Poets and Writers Magazine, on the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle, on the Board of Directors of Fishouse Poems: A Poetry Archive, and on the Advisory Circle of Con Tinta, a collective of Chicano/ Latino activist writers. He lives in New York City and is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark.

Rigoberto Gonzalez

Rigoberto Gonzalez

Rigoberto Gonzlez is the author of seven books, most recently of the memoir, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. A story collection, Men without Bliss, is forthcoming. The recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, and of various international artist residencies, he writes twice a month a Latino book column, now entering its seventh year, for the El Paso Times of Texas. He is contributing editor for Poets and Writers Magazine, on the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle, on the Board of Directors of Fishouse Poems: A Poetry Archive, and on the Advisory Circle of Con Tinta, a collective of Chicano/ Latino activist writers. He lives in New York City and is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark.

Rigoberto
Gonzlez

William Doreski

William Doreski

William Doreski's most recent collection of poetry is Another Ice Age (2007). He has published three critical studies, including Robert Lowell's Shifting Colors. His essays, poetry, and reviews have appeared in many journals, including Massachusetts Review, Notre Dame Review, The Alembic, New England Quarterly, Harvard Review, Modern Philology, Antioch Review, Natural Bridge.

William Doreski

William Doreski

William Doreski's most recent collection of poetry is Another Ice Age (2007). He has published three critical studies, including Robert Lowell's Shifting Colors. His essays, poetry, and reviews have appeared in many journals, including Massachusetts Review, Notre Dame Review, The Alembic, New England Quarterly, Harvard Review, Modern Philology, Antioch Review, Natural Bridge.

William
Doreski