Cheryl J. Anthony, a two-time recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, does not have an MFA. A long-time summer student at various locales, she has studied with Lee K. Abbott and James Alan McPherson among others. This work is the result of an exercise for the writer to better realize a character in her work-in-progress, Never, a novel-in-stories set in Harlem in 1930. Ms. Anthony is a New York City native.
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Garin Cycholl’s recent work includes Country Musics 20/20, a collection of shorter poems on Kafka’s “Great Wall” and the 2016 Inaugural Address (Locofo Press 2017), as well as the one-act play, Ms. Liberty and Her Chastity Belt.
Read MoreIn Praise of the Dickcissel and Other Poems
Patricia Clark is the author of The Canopy (2017, Terrapin Books), her fifth book of poetry. She teaches in the Writing Department at Grand Valley State University where she is also the university's poet in residence. Find her recent work in Alaska Quarterly Review, Smartish Pace, New Letters, North American Review, and Blackbird. She was the poet laureate of Grand Rapids, MI from 2005-2007, and she has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and at the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland.
Read MoreGainesville Sestina; The Weekend After; Club Q
James Davis lives in Denver. His poetry has appeared in Gargoyle, Defenestration, Copper Nickel, Best New Poets, 32 Poems, and elsewhere. He is a 2019 Mastheads Resident, a graduate of the University of Florida's MFA program, and director of the Denver/Boulder Scrabble Club.
Read MoreAngelfish; Dragonfly; Whippoorwill
Henrietta Goodman is the author of All That Held Us (BkMk Press, 2018), Hungry Moon (Colorado State University, 2013), and Take What You Want (Alice James Books, 2007). Her poems in this issue are from a collaborative manuscript of dual acrostic alphabets contemplating the intersections of the human and non-human animal worlds.
Read MoreEverything Is an Instrument and Gives Its Own Song
Karen Holmberg is the author of two previous poetry collections, The Perseids (University of North Texas Press) and Axis Mundi (BkMk Press), which was named one of the top ten poetry titles of 2013 by Slate Magazine. My poems and nonfiction have been published in such journals as Black Warrior Review, New England Review, Poetry East, New Madrid, and At Length, among others.
Read MoreSheet Lightning; My Brother Bowfishing in Lake Lanier
Alyse Knorr is an assistant professor of English at Regis University and co-editor of Switchback Books. She is the author of three poetry collections, three poetry chapbooks, and a non-fiction book. Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, The Greensboro Review, and ZYZZYVA, among others.
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Tom McAllister is the author of the novels How to Be Safe and The Young Widower's Handbook, as well as the memoir Bury Me in My Jersey. He is the nonfiction editor at Barrelhouse and co-host of the Book Fight! podcast. He lives in New Jersey and teaches at Temple University. Find him on Twitter @t_mcallister.
Read MoreVague Elegy
Varun Ravindran was born in India and lives presently in Pittsburgh.
Read MoreAt the Churchyard
Nicole Robinson’s poems have appeared in Connotation Press, Tahoma Literary Review, Great River Review and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an Individual Excellence Award in poetry from the Ohio Arts Council and is the Narrative Medicine Coordinator at Akron Children’s Hospital.
Read MoreSmoke in the Hills
Laura Vrcek has an MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University. She mostly writes nonfiction essays and prose poetry about triumphant family love. Her work has appeared in Apple Valley Review, Brevity's Nonfiction Blog, Entropy Magazine, The Red Clay Review, sPARKLE & bLINK, and KQED public radio’s broadcast segment Perspectives.
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