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…
Joseph O’Brien
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…
Dignity of a Human Voice: An Interview with Robert Pinsky, by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
My very first introduction to Robert Pinsky was on the *Poetry Foundation website, where I had the opportunity to read many of his poems and articles. But the most interesting way of learning more about him was to watch a number of videos, in which he was either performing, reciting poems, or teaching his students….
Robbi Nester and Ira Joel Haber: Art inspired by Poetry
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,…
Poetry Inspired Cinema: Reservations a Poem by Jesse White
BIO Jesse White, Founder of the School for Wonder, has responded to invitations throughout the United States as a singer/songwriter, poet, storyteller, teacher, trainer, motivational speaker, and advocate for social justice. Her publications include two books of contemplative poetry, three CD’s of original music, a literary review, 20 spoken-word artists on her label, Authentic Voicework…
Sonia Greenfield
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…
Joseph O’Brien
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…
Carolyn Raphael
. 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…
Luisa A. Igloria
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…
Cherokee Shaman’s Formulas: Translated by Jennifer Reeser
A Yu(n) Ini Cherokee Shaman _ The sacred formulas here translated are representative of only two from a collection of approximately six hundred which were collected on the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina in 1887 and 1888. These formulas had been handed down by oral tradition from ancient times, until Sequoyah’s invention of the Cherokee…
Jennifer Reeser
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…
Paula D. Lietz
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 ….