The one who looked after me has gone The one I looked after has gone —Bertolt Brecht . How do you mourn the absence of someone you’ve seen almost every day of your life and whose daily presence was always a comfort to you? We’ve all seen children in the midst of what seems to…
Stalin’s Daughter By Jenya Krein Translated by Terry Myers Jenya Krein is a Russian-born fiction writer, translator, and essayist. She was born in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), Russia, where she studied at several institutions of higher learning. In 1988 she immigrated with her family to the United States and settled in the Boston area, where she…
Robbi Nester is the author of a chapbook, Balance(White Violet, 2012), and a collection of poems, A Likely Story (Moon Tide, 2014) . She is the editor of an anthology,The Liberal Media Made Me Do It! (Nine Toes, 2014) and a forthcoming anthology, Over the Moon: Birds, Beasts, and Trees—celebrating the photography of Beth Moon,…
BIO Sonia Greenfield was born and raised in Peekskill, New York. Her poems, essays, and fiction have appeared widely, including in 2010 Best American Poetry, The Bellevue Literary Review, Cimarron Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Rattle. Her book, Boy with a Halo at the Farmer’s Market, recently won the 2014 Codhill Poetry Prize. She lives…
BIO Joseph O’Brien lives on a homestead with his wife Cecilia and their nine children in rural Soldiers Grove, WI. He is Managing Editor of Adoremus Bulletin, a correspondent for the Catholic Business journal, and Poetry Editor and cocktail reviewer for The San Diego Reader. He also teaches at Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI. His…
. BIO Carolyn Raphael retired from the English Department at Queensborough Community College, CUNY, after more than thirty years of teaching. Her poems have appeared in journals including The Lyric, Measure, Orbis, and Rattapallax. Her chapbook, Diagrams of Bittersweet, was published by Somers Rocks Press in 1997, and her poetry collection, The Most Beautiful Room…
BIO Originally from Baguio City, Luisa A. Igloria is the author of the eChapbook Bright as Mirrors Left in the Grass (2015); Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser (selected by Mark Doty for the 2014 May Swenson Prize, Utah State University Press); Night Willow (2014); and 11 other books. From 2009-2015, she…
BIO Jennifer Reeser is the author of four books of poetry, including Sonnets from the Dark Lady and Other Poems (2012) and The Lalaurie Horror (2013). X.J. Kennedy wrote that her debut “ought to have been a candidate for a Pulitzer.” Her poems and translations of French and Russian literature have appeared in POETRY, Recours au Poeme, The National…
BIO Paula Dawn Lietz is an accomplished published poet. She is as well a multi-genre artist and photographer gathering the inspiration from that which surrounds her. Nature. Paula has garnered an impressive range of credits working with various publishers and authors, and revels in the creative energy generated within the artistic and literary community.http://www.pdlietzphotography.com ….
BIO E. SAN JUAN is Professorial Lecturer in Cultural Studies, Polytechnic University of the Philippines,, and emeritus professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Ethnic Studies,Washington State University & the University of Connecticut. He was recently fellow of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University; and of the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas. He was…
BIO Steffen Horstmann has written more than two hundred ghazals in English. His poems and book reviews have appeared in publications throughout the world, including in: Baltimore Review, Free State Review, Istanbul Literary Review, Louisiana Literature, Oyez Review, Texas Poetry Journal, and Tiferet. His book of ghazals, Jalsaghar, will be published this year by Kariboux;…
BIO – Anna Akhmatova (1889-1961) Akhmatova’s early Acmeist poems were sensationally popular during the teens and 20s of the twentieth century. After the Bolshevik revolution her personal life and public career went from crisis to crisis. She was effectively barred from publishing. She continued to write “for the bottom of her chest” as she said….
