July 5, Bed-Stuy

Seth Amos is cofounder and former poetry editor of Rivet: The Journal of Writing That Risks. His work has been published in or is forthcoming from Tin House, Blood Orange Review, Cagibi, The Canopy Review, and elsewhere.

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Mapping Moss

Lyn Baldwin teaches ecology at Thompson Rivers University amidst the sagebrush steppe and inland coniferous forests of southern British Columbia. Lyn’s illustrations and essays have been published in Camas, Cirque, Terrain and The Goose. More excerpts from Lyn’s field journals can be found at http://viridianlife.sites.tru.ca/

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Convention of Gulls

Carol Barrett holds doctorates in both clinical psychology and creative writing. She coordinates the Creative Writing Certificate Program at Union Institute & University. Her books include Calling in the Bones, (Snyder Prize from Ashland Poetry Press), Drawing Lessons (Finishing Line Press), and Pansies (Sonder Press), finalist for the 2020 Oregon Book Award in Nonfiction.

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Hometown Air

Rose DeMaris writes poetry, novels, and essays. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published by Random House, The Millions, and Big Sky Journal. She has poems forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Cold Mountain Review, and Pine Row Press, and was a finalist for the 2020 Orison Anthology Award in Poetry. A California native, she spent many years in Montana and now lives in Brooklyn.

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Whale Watch; Like Bait

Vivian Eyre is a New York-based poet, and the author of the poetry chapbook, To the Sound (Finishing Line Press). Her poems have been published and are forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review, The Fourth River, Moon City Review, Quiddity, Pangyrus, Spire, Bellingham Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Buddhist Poetry Journal. She serves as the guest curator for the Southold Historical Society’s Whale House museum.

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Homeward

Max Dorfman is a writer and visual artist living in New York City. He is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College with his BA in English and Columbia University with his MA in Clinical Psychology. He has also been published in The Bookends Review and Parhelion Literary Magazine.

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Ablation

Jenna Gersie is a PhD student in English at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she studies American literature and the environmental humanities. She is managing editor of The Hopper. Her writing has appeared in About Place Journal, Zoomorphic, and elsewhere.

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Dream House

Mark Hall is a professor of writing, rhetoric, and digital studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His creative nonfiction has appeared in Flashquake, The Timberline Review, Lunch Ticket, Passengers Journal, Sand Hills Literary Magazine, Hippocampus, and others.

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Nuclear Cattle

Sharon Hashimoto's first book of poetry, The Crane Wife, the 2003 co-winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, will be reprinted by Red Hen Press in April, 2021. Her second collection, More American, won the 2021 Off the Grid Poetry Prize. Recent work appears in Barrow Street, Permafrost, and North American Review.

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Exhale; Somber Shade

Joddy Murray’s chapbook, Anaphora, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2020. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in over 70 journals, including, most recently, The Adirondack Review, Nude Bruce Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Pembroke Magazine, and Southampton Review. He currently teaches writing and rhetoric in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Wild Hyssop; Diapause

Stella Reed is the co-author of the AZ-NM Book Award winning, We Are Meant to Carry Water, 2019, from 3: A Taos Press. She is the 2018 winner of the Tusculum Review chapbook contest for Origami, and took 3rd place in the Baltimore Review’s writing contest 2020.


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Bones

Will Reger serves as the Poet Laureate for the City of Urbana, IL. He has published poems since 2010, including his first book, Petroglyphs (2019). Many of these poems are linked to www.twitter.com/wmreger. When not scribbling poetry, he enjoys playing the nanxiao in the woods.

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The View from El Venado

Robin Schauffler frequently writes of her long experience living and traveling in Mexico. Her work has appeared in Cargo Literary, Timberline Review, Aji, Hawaii Pacific Review, Ocotillo Review, Street Roots, and forthcoming in Silk Road Review. She lives in Portland, Oregon, and misses Mexico every day.

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After the Madness; Striped Bass

Lenora Steele’s poetry and short prose have been published in Canada, Ireland, and the US, in Event, The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, Wow, Cranog, The Antigonish Review, among others. She lives where twice a day the tidal bore funnels a hundred billion tonnes of brine up the Bay of Fundy into the Cobequid Bay & the Salmon River reaching her home in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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God, You, as Death, are in All Things

Marc Tretin is a retired divorce attorney who is now devoting himself to poetry. During this long lockdown, he has the company of his spaniel and poodle mix with separation anxiety, a 20 Pound cat with a foul disposition, his very sweet wife, and a young adult daughter.

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Honey

Lindsey Warren has been published in many journals including Hobart and Interim. Her poetry books Unfinished Child and Archangel & the Overlooked are available from Spuyten Duyvil. Litbreak Magazine published the first chapter of her novel-in-progress earlier this year. She lives in Delaware with her corgi.

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Origin of Water

Lisbeth White is a writer currently residing in the Pacific Northwest, whose work has appeared in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, The Rumpus, Kweli, Blue Mountain Review, Apogee, Split This Rock and elsewhere. She is currently working on an experimental hybrid nonfiction project about elemental medicine and archetypal mythology. You can find her musings on Instagram: @earthmaven or www.lisbethwrites.com

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