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Natalie Staples

Natalie Staples earned a BA from Kenyon College and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Oregon. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in NPR, Literary Matters, BPR, Terrain.org, and SWWIM Every Day. She serves as the poetry editor for the Northwest Review.

 

 

Timothy Kleiser

Timothy Kleiser is a writer and teacher from Louisville, Kentucky. His writing has appeared in Atlanta Review, National Review, Modern Age, Still, Fathom, Front Porch Republic, and elsewhere. He is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of St. Thomas.

 

 

Blake Campbell

Blake Campbell’s writing has appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, the Dark Horse, the Worcester Review, Measure Review, Lambda Literary, and the anthology 14 International Younger Poets. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he is the recipient of the 2015 Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank Most Promising Young Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets and a 2020 Emerging Artist Award from the St. Botolph Club Foundation.

 

Gail White

Gail White writes from Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. She is a contributing editor of Light Poetry Magazine and has recent poems in Mezzo Cammin, Better than Starbucks and Alabama Literary Review. Her books, Asperity Street (Able Muse Press, 2015) and Catechism (White Violet Press, 2016), may be found on Amazon. She loves Victorian novels, Cajun food, and cats.

 

 

Burt Myers

Burt Myers works as an art director in upstate New York. He has had work published recently in the Southern Review, Barrow Street, the Hopkins Review, and elsewhere.

 

 

John Wall Barger

John Wall Barger’s poems and critical writing have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review Online, ZYZZYVA, the Cincinnati Review, Poetry Ireland Review, and Best of the Best Canadian Poetry. His sixth book of poems, Smog Mother, came out with Palimpsest Press in Fall 2022. He is a contract editor for Frontenac House, and teaches in the BFA Program for Creative Writing at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

 

 

Mike Chasar

Mike Chasar is the author of Poetry Unbound: Poems and New Media from the Magic Lantern to Instagram (Columbia UP, 2020) and Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America (Columbia UP, 2012), and is coeditor of Poetry after Cultural Studies (U of Iowa, 2011). He was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow in 2016 and a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress in 2015. He teaches at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.

 

 

Amy Glynn

Jay Rogoff has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Loving in Truth: New and Selected Poems (LSU Press, 2020). His other books include The Long Fault (2008), The Art of Gravity (2011), and Enamel Eyes (2016), all from LSU. His poetry and criticism have appeared in many journals, including the Georgia Review, the Kenyon Review, Salmagundi, and the Southern Review, and he recently completed a thirteen-year stint as dance critic for the Hopkins Review.

 

Jay Rogoff

Jay Rogoff has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Loving in Truth: New and Selected Poems (LSU Press, 2020). His other books include The Long Fault (2008), The Art of Gravity (2011), and Enamel Eyes (2016), all from LSU. His poetry and criticism have appeared in many journals, including the Georgia Review, the Kenyon Review, Salmagundi, and the Southern Review, and he recently completed a thirteen-year stint as dance critic for the Hopkins Review.

 

Jenna Le

Jenna Le is the author of Six Rivers (NYQ Books, 2011); A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora (Indolent Books, 2017), an Elgin Awards second-place winner, voted on by the international membership of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association; and Manatee Lagoon (Acre Books, 2022). She is a two-time winner of the Poetry by the Sea Sonnet Contest. Her poems appear in AGNI, Denver Quarterly, Los Angeles Review, Massachusetts Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Pleiades, Poet Lore, Verse Daily, West Branch, and elsewhere.

 

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