BIO Octavio Quintanilla is the author of the poetry collection, If I Go Missing (Slough Press, 2014). His work has appeared in Salamander, RHINO, Alaska Quarterly Review, Southwestern American Literature, The Texas Observer, and elsewhere. He is a CantoMundo Fellow and holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Texas. He is the regional editor for Texas Books in Review and teaches Literature and Creative Writing in…
BIO R. W. Haynes writes and teaches in South Texas. He is working on a second book on playwright/screenwriter Horton Foote. A list of some places he has published is online at http://www.pw.org/content/r_w_haynes . . Chemistry Wins Again His girlfriend Sophie had a brainstorm And changed her major, she had so much fun Listening to…
BIO Sarah Marcus is the author of BACKCOUNTRY (Finishing Line Press, 2013) and Every Bird, To You (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2013). Her other work can be found at NPR’s Prosody: Pittsburgh Radio for Contemporary Literature, The Huffington Post, McSweeney’s, Cimarron Review, CALYX Journal, Spork, Luna Luna, and Marie Claire, among others. She is an editor at Gazing Grain Press and a spirited Count Coordinator for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. She holds…
BIO Robbi Nester is the author of a chapbook, Balance (White Violet, 2012) and a collection of poems, A LIkely Story (Moon Tide, 2014). She also edited an anthology of poems inspired by public media, The Liberal Media Made Me Do It! (Nine Toes, 2014). She has published poetry, book reviews, and articles in many…
Jean L. Kreiling is the author of the recently published collection, The Truth in Dissonance (Kelsay Books, 2014). Her work has appeared widely in print and online journals, including American Arts Quarterly, The Evansville Review, Measure, and Mezzo Cammin, and in several anthologies. Kreiling is a past winner of the String Poet Prize and the…
BIO Nizar Sartawi is a poet, translator and educator. He was born in Sarta, Palestine, in 1951. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of Jordan, Amman, and a Master’s degree in Human Resources Development from the University of Minnesota. Sartawi is a member of the Jordanian Writers Association and General Union…
. . . . BIO Hila Ratzabi was selected by Adrienne Rich as a recipient of a National Writers Union Poetry Prize and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the author of the chapbook The Apparatus of Visible Things (Finishing Line Press). Her poetry is published or forthcoming in Narrative, Alaska Quarterly…
BIO Sarla Maheshwari is an Indian writer, poet, journalist and social activist . She has written 16 books on various subject matters, including drama and poetry. She is an ex-member of Indian Parliament (Rajya Sabha), and the Deputy Chairperson of the Parliamentary Official Language Committee. She lives in Kolkata, India with her husband Arun Maheshwari,…
Click below to listen to Damascus. Performed by : Jack and Adelle Foley . . DAMASCUS Last year at Damascus it rained Night fell at Damascus Day broke, The seasons went on. _____Unceasing violence Last year at Damascus the sun _____The man Shone for part of a day _____Raised the gun to his And then…
BIO Lissa Kiernan is the author of Two Faint Lines in the Violet, (Negative Capability Press, 2014), a finalist for both the Foreword Reviews’ 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award and the 2014 Julie Suk Award for Best Poetry Book by an Independent Press. Her book-length braided essay, Glass Needles & Goose Quills: Elementary Lessons in Atomic…
BIO Claudia Russo was born in Enna, Italy, in 1987. In 2014 she obtained a degree in modern languages and literature from the university of Catania and now continues her studies of French language at the university of Rome, La Sapienza. While in Catania, she was active in a literary group under the direction of…
VIDEOPOEM – The West will be for tomorrow by Rodica Draghincescu (with subtitles in English) from Roxanne Brousseau Felio on Vimeo. For more about Rodica Draghincescu CLICK HERE For more about Roxanne Brousseau Felio CLICK HERE . .
