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

David Moody

David Antonio Moody is a writing instructor in downtown Phoenix and production editor for The Cortland Review. Recipient of a 2014 AWP Intro Journals Award, his recent poetry appears in Ghost Ocean, Carolina Quarterly, Breakwater Review, and Columbia Review. He completed his doctorate at Florida State University where he performed in the Jack Haskin’s Flying High Circus.

David Moody

David Antonio Moody is a writing instructor in downtown Phoenix and production editor for The Cortland Review. Recipient of a 2014 AWP Intro Journals Award, his recent poetry appears in Ghost Ocean, Carolina Quarterly, Breakwater Review, and Columbia Review. He completed his doctorate at Florida State University where he performed in the Jack Haskin’s Flying High Circus.

David
Moody

Douglas Manuel

Douglas Manuel

Douglas Manuel was born in Anderson, Indiana. He is currently a Middleton and Dornsife Fellow at the University of Southern California where he is pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in RhinoNorth American Review, The Chattahoochee Review, New Orleans Review, Crab Creek Review, Many Mountains Moving and elsewhere. His first full length collection of poems, Testify, will be released by Red Hen Press in the spring of 2017.

Douglas Manuel

Douglas Manuel

Douglas Manuel was born in Anderson, Indiana. He is currently a Middleton and Dornsife Fellow at the University of Southern California where he is pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in RhinoNorth American Review, The Chattahoochee Review, New Orleans Review, Crab Creek Review, Many Mountains Moving and elsewhere. His first full length collection of poems, Testify, will be released by Red Hen Press in the spring of 2017.

Douglas
Manuel

Jeff Whitney

Jeff Whitney

Jeff Whitney is the author of The Tree With Lights in it, available from Thrush Press, while Radio Silence (Black Lawrence Press) and Smoke Tones (Phantom Books) were co-written with poet Philip Schaefer. His poems can be found in journals such as Adroit, Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, Colorado Review, Narrative, Poetry Northwest, and Verse Daily. He lives in Portland, where he teaches English.

Jeff Whitney

Jeff Whitney

Jeff Whitney is the author of The Tree With Lights in it, available from Thrush Press, while Radio Silence (Black Lawrence Press) and Smoke Tones (Phantom Books) were co-written with poet Philip Schaefer. His poems can be found in journals such as Adroit, Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, Colorado Review, Narrative, Poetry Northwest, and Verse Daily. He lives in Portland, where he teaches English.

Jeff
Whitney

John-Michael Bloomquist

John Michael Bloomquist

John-Michael Bloomquist is a poet living in Bloomington, IN with his wife, where he teaches poetry at the Monroe County Jail and gift economics at the Crestmont Boys’ and Girls’ Club.  He holds a dual-genre MFA degree in Poetry and CNF from Virginia Commonwealth University. His poetry has been published in The Tampa Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Third Coast and many more. He has forthcoming work in Painted Bride Quarterly and he is being nominated for a Pushcart by Matter. He is the founder of poetryfortrash.com, a public arts project that encourages gift economics as a solution to pollution. 

John-Michael Bloomquist

John Michael Bloomquist

John-Michael Bloomquist is a poet living in Bloomington, IN with his wife, where he teaches poetry at the Monroe County Jail and gift economics at the Crestmont Boys’ and Girls’ Club.  He holds a dual-genre MFA degree in Poetry and CNF from Virginia Commonwealth University. His poetry has been published in The Tampa Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Third Coast and many more. He has forthcoming work in Painted Bride Quarterly and he is being nominated for a Pushcart by Matter. He is the founder of poetryfortrash.com, a public arts project that encourages gift economics as a solution to pollution. 

John-Michael
Bloomquist

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach emigrated from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine as a Jewish refugee when she was six years old. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Oregon and is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on contemporary American poetry related to the Holocaust. Julia is the author of The Bear Who Ate the Stars. Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, and The Missouri Review Online. She has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf and TENT Conferences as well as the Auschwitz Jewish Center. She's also Editor-in-Chief of Construction Magazine.

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach emigrated from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine as a Jewish refugee when she was six years old. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Oregon and is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on contemporary American poetry related to the Holocaust. Julia is the author of The Bear Who Ate the Stars. Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, and The Missouri Review Online. She has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf and TENT Conferences as well as the Auschwitz Jewish Center. She's also Editor-in-Chief of Construction Magazine.

Julia
Kolchinsky Dasbach

Kristen Bulger

Kristen Bulger

Kristen Bulger is a poet living in Jamaica Plain, MA and is a recent graduate of the MFA program at the University of New Hampshire. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Salamander, Houseguest, and The Charles River Journal.

Kristen Bulger

Kristen Bulger

Kristen Bulger is a poet living in Jamaica Plain, MA and is a recent graduate of the MFA program at the University of New Hampshire. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Salamander, Houseguest, and The Charles River Journal.

Kristen
Bulger

Kristina Marie Darling

Kristina Marie Darling

Kristina Marie Darling is the author of twenty-seven books of poetry, most recently Ghost / Landscape (with John Gallaher; BlazeVox Books, 2016) and the forthcoming Dark Horse (C&R Press, 2017). She is the recipient of grants from the Whiting Foundation and Harvard University’s Kittredge Fund. Her poems appear in New American Writing, The Mid-American Review, Poetry International, Passages North, Nimrod, and many other magazines. She has published essays in Agni, The Gettysburg Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, Descant, and elsewhere. She is Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Quarterly and Grants Specialist at Black Ocean. 

Kristina Marie Darling

Kristina Marie Darling

Kristina Marie Darling is the author of twenty-seven books of poetry, most recently Ghost / Landscape (with John Gallaher; BlazeVox Books, 2016) and the forthcoming Dark Horse (C&R Press, 2017). She is the recipient of grants from the Whiting Foundation and Harvard University’s Kittredge Fund. Her poems appear in New American Writing, The Mid-American Review, Poetry International, Passages North, Nimrod, and many other magazines. She has published essays in Agni, The Gettysburg Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, Descant, and elsewhere. She is Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Quarterly and Grants Specialist at Black Ocean. 

Kristina Marie
Darling

Laura Wetherington

Laura Wetherington’s first book, A Map Predetermined and Chance (Fence 2011), was selected by C.S. Giscombe for the National Poetry Series. Her work appears or is forthcoming in the journals Colorado ReviewNarrativeThe Michigan Quarterly ReviewEleven ElevenThe Normal School, and Drunken Boat, among others. She teaches in SNC Tahoe’s low-residency MFA program and co-edits textsound.org with Hannah Ensor.

Laura Wetherington

Laura Wetherington’s first book, A Map Predetermined and Chance (Fence 2011), was selected by C.S. Giscombe for the National Poetry Series. Her work appears or is forthcoming in the journals Colorado ReviewNarrativeThe Michigan Quarterly ReviewEleven ElevenThe Normal School, and Drunken Boat, among others. She teaches in SNC Tahoe’s low-residency MFA program and co-edits textsound.org with Hannah Ensor.

Laura
Wetherington

Maria Martin

Maria Martin is a poet living in Charleston, SC. Her poems have appeared in Lockjaw Magazine and are forthcoming in Painted Bride Quarterly and The Indianola Review

Maria Martin

Maria Martin is a poet living in Charleston, SC. Her poems have appeared in Lockjaw Magazine and are forthcoming in Painted Bride Quarterly and The Indianola Review

Maria
Martin

Maureen Seaton

Maureen Seaton has authored seventeen poetry collections, both solo and collaborative— most recently, Fibonacci Batman: New & Selected Poems (Carnegie Mellon University Press 2013) and Caprice: Collected, Uncollected, and New Collaborations (with Denise Duhamel, Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015). Her awards include the Iowa Poetry Prize and Lambda Literary Award (both for Furious Cooking), the Audre Lorde Award (for Venus Examines Her Breast), an NEA fellowship, and two Pushcart Prizes. Her memoir, Sex Talks to Girls, also garnered a “Lammy.” She teaches creative writing at the University of Miami, Florida.

Maureen Seaton

Maureen Seaton has authored seventeen poetry collections, both solo and collaborative— most recently, Fibonacci Batman: New & Selected Poems (Carnegie Mellon University Press 2013) and Caprice: Collected, Uncollected, and New Collaborations (with Denise Duhamel, Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015). Her awards include the Iowa Poetry Prize and Lambda Literary Award (both for Furious Cooking), the Audre Lorde Award (for Venus Examines Her Breast), an NEA fellowship, and two Pushcart Prizes. Her memoir, Sex Talks to Girls, also garnered a “Lammy.” She teaches creative writing at the University of Miami, Florida.

Maureen
Seaton

Mary Morris

Mary Morris

Mary Morris has been invited to read at the Library of Congress and consequently NPR. Her work is published in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, The Columbia Review, and New Letters. She received the Rita Dove Award and the Discovery Award of New Mexico. Her book, “Enter Water, Swimmer” will be published in Spring 2018 by Texas Review Press (TAMU University Consortium). She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Mary Morris

Mary Morris

Mary Morris has been invited to read at the Library of Congress and consequently NPR. Her work is published in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, The Columbia Review, and New Letters. She received the Rita Dove Award and the Discovery Award of New Mexico. Her book, “Enter Water, Swimmer” will be published in Spring 2018 by Texas Review Press (TAMU University Consortium). She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Mary
Morris

Robert Cording

Robert Cording

Robert Cording has published eight collections of poems: Life-list, What Binds Us To This World, Heavy Grace, Against Consolation, Common Life, Walking With Ruskin, A Word in My Mouth: Selected Spiritual Poems (Wipf and Stock, 2013), and, most recently, Only So Far (CavanKerry Press, 2015). He has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in poetry and two poetry grants from the Connecticut Commission of the Arts. His poems have appeared in numerous publications such as the Nation, the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, Poetry, Kenyon Review, New Ohio Review, New England Review, Orion, and the New Yorker.

Robert Cording

Robert Cording

Robert Cording has published eight collections of poems: Life-list, What Binds Us To This World, Heavy Grace, Against Consolation, Common Life, Walking With Ruskin, A Word in My Mouth: Selected Spiritual Poems (Wipf and Stock, 2013), and, most recently, Only So Far (CavanKerry Press, 2015). He has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in poetry and two poetry grants from the Connecticut Commission of the Arts. His poems have appeared in numerous publications such as the Nation, the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, Poetry, Kenyon Review, New Ohio Review, New England Review, Orion, and the New Yorker.

Robert
Cording

Robert Nazarene

Robert Nazarene

Robert Nazarene founded MARGIE Review/IntuiT House Poetry Series which published the winning volume for the National Book Critics Circle Awardin 2006. He is the author of two volumes of poems: CHURCH and Empire de la Mort. His poetry has appeared in AGNI, Iowa Review, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Ploughshares, Salmagundi, The London Magazine and elsewhere. He is founding editor of The American Journal of Poetry.

Robert Nazarene

Robert Nazarene

Robert Nazarene founded MARGIE Review/IntuiT House Poetry Series which published the winning volume for the National Book Critics Circle Awardin 2006. He is the author of two volumes of poems: CHURCH and Empire de la Mort. His poetry has appeared in AGNI, Iowa Review, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Ploughshares, Salmagundi, The London Magazine and elsewhere. He is founding editor of The American Journal of Poetry.

Robert
Nazarene

Rose Knapp

Rose Knapp

Rose Knapp is a poet, producer, and multimedia artist. She has publications in Lotus-Eater, Bombay Gin, BlazeVOX, Hotel Amerika, Gargoyle, and others. She has a chapbook forthcoming with Hesterglock Press. She currently lives and works in Manhattan.

Rose Knapp

Rose Knapp

Rose Knapp is a poet, producer, and multimedia artist. She has publications in Lotus-Eater, Bombay Gin, BlazeVOX, Hotel Amerika, Gargoyle, and others. She has a chapbook forthcoming with Hesterglock Press. She currently lives and works in Manhattan.

Rose
Knapp

Shinjini Bhattacharjee

Shinjini Bhattacharjee's work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Bitter Oleander, Cimarron Review, DecomP, A-Minor, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She is the author of two chapbooks, There is No Way to Alter the Gravity for a Doll (dancing girl press, 2016) and In My Landscape, I Am Not Real (Glass Lyre Press, 2018), and serves as the founding editor of Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal and Press.

Shinjini Bhattacharjee

Shinjini Bhattacharjee's work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Bitter Oleander, Cimarron Review, DecomP, A-Minor, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She is the author of two chapbooks, There is No Way to Alter the Gravity for a Doll (dancing girl press, 2016) and In My Landscape, I Am Not Real (Glass Lyre Press, 2018), and serves as the founding editor of Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal and Press.

Shinjini
Bhattacharjee

Stan Sanvel Rubin

Stan Sanvel Rubin

Stan Sanvel Rubin's poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Gris-Gris, Poetry Northwest, Concho River Review, Hubbub, Hamilton Stone Review and The Laurel Review. His fourth full collection, There. Here., was published by Lost Horse Press in 2013. He lives on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state and writes essay-reviews of poetry for Water-Stone Review out of Hamline University, St. Paul, MN. He retired  as co-founding director of the Rainier Writing Workshop low residency MFA program in 2014. 

Stan Sanvel Rubin

Stan Sanvel Rubin

Stan Sanvel Rubin's poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Gris-Gris, Poetry Northwest, Concho River Review, Hubbub, Hamilton Stone Review and The Laurel Review. His fourth full collection, There. Here., was published by Lost Horse Press in 2013. He lives on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state and writes essay-reviews of poetry for Water-Stone Review out of Hamline University, St. Paul, MN. He retired  as co-founding director of the Rainier Writing Workshop low residency MFA program in 2014. 

Stan Sanvel
Rubin

Steven D. Schroeder

Steven D. Schroeder

Steven D. Schroeder's second book, The Royal Nonesuch (Spark Wheel Press), won the Devil's Kitchen Reading Award from Southern Illinois University. His poetry is available or forthcoming from Crazyhorse, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Pleiades. He works as a Creative Content Manager for a small financial marketing agency.

Steven D. Schroeder

Steven D. Schroeder

Steven D. Schroeder's second book, The Royal Nonesuch (Spark Wheel Press), won the Devil's Kitchen Reading Award from Southern Illinois University. His poetry is available or forthcoming from Crazyhorse, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Pleiades. He works as a Creative Content Manager for a small financial marketing agency.

Steven
Schroeder