A poetry film directed by Dan Sickles. Produced by Antonio Santini, Adam Uhl, Dan Sickles. I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast from Motionpoems on Vimeo. I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast by Melissa Studdard —After Thich Nhat Hanh . It looked like a pancake, but it was creation flattened out— the fist of God on…
Blackbirds in September: Selected Shorter Poems of Jürgen Becker Review by Kenneth Nichols Paperback: 148 pages Publisher: Black Lawrence Press (December 20, 2015) Language: English and German ISBN-13: 978-1625579386 The myth of the Tower of Babel describes a humanity that has united in the years after the Great Flood. Joined by language and purpose,…
BIO . Dennis Maloney is the editor and publisher of the widely respected White Pine Press in Buffalo, NY. He is also a poet and translator. His works of translation include: The Stones of Chile by Pablo Neruda, The Landscape of Castile by Antonio Machado, Between the Floating Mist: Poems of Ryokan, and The Poet…
BIO A PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellow, Jennifer Givhan is a 2015 recipient of an NEA in poetry, as well as the 2013 DASH Literary Journal Poetry Prize winner, an Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize finalist, and a 2014 Prairie Schooner Book Prize finalist for her collection Karaoke Night at the Asylum. She holds an MFA from…
BIO Jenna Butler was born in Norwich, England in 1980, but has spent most of her life on the prairies of Western Canada. The varied landscapes of the prairies and mountains — their intense harshness and incredible richness — feature prominently in her poetry, fiction, and essays. Her work has garnered a number of awards,…
BIO Kelli Russell Agodon is an award-winning poet, writer, and editor from the Pacific Northwest. Her most recent collections are Hourglass Museum (published by White Pine Press and shortlisted for the 2015 Julie Suk Poetry Prize) and The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts for Your Writing Practice, which she coauthored with Martha Silano. Her second collection, Letters from the Emily…
BIO Cheryl is currently an MFA Creative Writing, Poetry student at Oklahoma State University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tower Journal, Postcard Poems and Prose, Inkling, Stet, and Nota Bene. . Working Through It like a knot of tangled hair, I can only tease each strand, one from another, until I am…
. Babylone Bis from Sandra Zemor on Vimeo. . Babylone Bis: A poem by Sandra Zemor www.sandrazemor.com Music: Tejan Karefa Website: http://oracleimages.wix.com/tkphoto Blog: http://globalcipher.blogspot.fr/ . Babylone Bis It was white above endless peace then she was hurt She lost her husband I lost my child too It was blood it was black the old story on…
BIO Donna Baier Stein is the author of Sympathetic People (an Iowa Finalist Award Winner) and Sometimes You Sense the Difference (Finishing Line Press). Her novel The Silver Baron’s Wife (a PEN/New England Discovery Award winner) will be published in 2015 by Serving House Books. Her work has appeared in Ascent, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review, Puerto del Sol,…
BIO Robin Davidson is the author of two poem chapbooks, Kneeling in the Dojo (Finishing Line Press) and City that Ripens on the Tree of the World (Calypso Editions), and a full collection, Luminous Other, recipient of The Ashland Poetry Press’s 2012 Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize. She is also co-translator with Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska…
BIO Solomon Quaynor is a native of Ghana. He is both a poet and a scientist. He received a Master of Arts degree in English from Oklahoma State University with a concentration in Creative Writing in 2003. He loves writing poetry and specialized in it at school. However, his love for writing is not limited to the arts. He returned…
Frederick Feirstein is a playwright, poet, screenwriter, and psychoanalyst A dozen of his plays have been produced in New York and in reps. His best known play is the comedy THE FAMILY CIRCLE which was first produced at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York and then in L.A.and London. It was subsequently published in the…
