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E. Hume Covey

E. Hume Covey grew up in Virginia, France, Germany, and Italy and has a PhD from the University of Arizona. He has worked as a professor of philosophy and as a manager, writer, and editor in the educational testing industry and has published articles in philosophical journals. He has recently published fiction in Streetlight Magazine and poems in Bellevue Literary Review and multiple issues of Nonbinary Review and Deep South Magazine.

 

Wendy Videlock

Wendy Videlock is Poet Laureate of the Western Slope in Colorado, serving thirty-two counties across the region. Videlock is the author of six books (four through Able Muse Press, and one each from EXOT Books and Lithic Books). Her poems appear most notably in Poetry, O Magazine, Hudson Review, Hopkins Review, the New York Times, and Rattle. She is a winner of the Cantor Prize and the Fisher Prize, and the three-time winner of the Keats Soul Making Prize. Her syndicated column, “The Barefoot Laureate,” appears in Colorado newspapers.

 

Malcolm Farley

Malcolm Farley’s poems have appeared in various journals including AGNI, the New Republic, the Paris Review, the American Scholar, Commonweal, the American Journal of Nursing, the Harvard Review, and the Los Angeles Review. His prose has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Boston Review, and Psychoanalysis Today.

 

Hilary Biehl

Hilary Biehl’s poems have appeared in Blue Unicorn, the Orchards, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. She lives in New Mexico with her husband and their son.

 

 

By the River

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Instinct

Instinct

Hunched, obsidian-eyed, and inches
from the curb—one paw gone, the other
           tight as a clasp—
           the animal,
           unblinking, breathes

 

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