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…
Jenna Butler
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,…
Kelli Russell Agodon
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…
Cheryl Kutcher
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: Sandra Zemor
. 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…
Gennady Katsov: Ekphrastic Poems Translated By Alex Cigale
BIO A long-time Russian print and online (Print Organ, Metro, RUNYweb.com), radio (WMNB) and television (RTN) journalist, observer of both popular and high culture, documentarian of the Russian émigré community in America, with his book-length project of ekphrastic poems Slovosphera, Gennady Katsov returned to his roots in poetry after a long absence. Born in 1956…
Donna Baier Stein
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,…
Solomon Quaynor
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…
Robin Davidson
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…
Rachel Blum
BIO Rachel Blum is a mother and reiki practioner living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her poetry is to be found at the web site www.rachelblumpoetry.com. . PRAYER Somewhere in the future is a flame. A cup of ash and blue light or a mirror spark of conception. Perhaps we precede it as the soul precedes the…
Frederick Feirstein
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…
Mohamed Elramady: Translated by Nizar Sartawi
BIO Mohamed Elramady is an Egyptian poet who lives in Alexandria. He has published five collections of poems: أتَوضأُ بِنُورِ عَينيكِ [I Wash in the Light of Your Eyes], 2011; العشق بعد المداولة [Love after Deliberation], 2010; رَمَادِيَّاتٌ وأَلْوَانٌ أُخْرَىٰ عَام [Ramadyat and Other Colors], 2009; حِينَ يَتَكَلَّمُ النَّبْضُ [When the Pulse Speaks], 2009; and…