Richard Meyer, a former English and humanities teacher, lives in Mankato, Minnesota. His poems have appeared in a variety of publications, including Able Muse, theRaintown Review, Think, Measure, Alabama Literary Review, Light, and the Evansville Review. He was awarded the 2012 Robert Frost Farm Prize for his poem “Fieldstone” and was the recipient of the 2014 String Poet Prize for his poem “The Autumn Way.” A book of his collected poems, Orbital Paths, was a silver medalist winner in the 2016 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards.
Born in London in 1933, John Ridland grew up in California. He earned his PhD from Claremont Graduate School and taught for forty-three years at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and was Professor Emeritus of its College of Creative Studies. He published numerous books and chapbooks, including Ode on Violence, Elegy for My Aunt, Life with Unkie, A Brahms Card Ballad, Happy in an Ordinary Thing, A.
A.E. Stallings is an American poet and translator who has lived in Athens (Greece) since 1999. Her most recent collection is Like from Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and her most recent verse translation is of Hesiod’s Works and Days for Penguin Classics. Her translation (illustrated!) of the pseudo-Homeric The Battle between the Frogs and the Mice: A Tiny Homeric Epic has just been published by Paul Dry Books.
Of Tim Murphy, Stallings writes:
James Matthew Wilson has published nine books, including, most recently, The River of the Immaculate Conception (Wiseblood, 2019) and The Hanging God (Angelico, 2018). He serves as poetry editor of Modern Age magazine, as editor of Colosseum Books, and as director of the Colosseum Institute. He is associate professor of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions at Villanova University.
Amy Bagan has worked in book and magazine publishing (Godine, Columbia University Press, the Paris Review, SUN Press, Newsweek, Piano & Keyboard) and as a teacher of English Composition at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Her poems have been awarded the Grolier Poetry Prize, the Montalvo Poetry Prize, an Academy of American Poets University Prize, and finalist for the 2016 James Hearst Poetry Prize. Her manuscript, Sand-Blind, was selected as a National Poetry Series finalist.
Barry Abrams was a recipient of the Henri Coulette Memorial Award (1996, 2000); a winner in Poetry in the Windows III (1999); and a finalist for the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award (2004). His poems have appeared in Rhyming Poems: A Contemporary Anthology, and in the Formalist, Iambs & Trochees, the Raintown Review, and other journals. He is a musician and former ESL teacher and lives with his wife in Los Angeles, California.
Catherine Chandler’s most recent collection is Pointing Home(Kelsay Books, 2019). She is also the author of The Frangible Hour(University of Evansville Press), winner of the 2016 Richard Wilbur Award; Lines of Flight (Able Muse Press), shortlisted for the Poets’ Prize; Glad and Sorry Seasons (Biblioasis); as well as three short collections: For No Good Reason, All or Nothing, and This Sweet Order.
Daniel Galef collects counterfeit coins and lives on the edge of a mountain with his cat Carson, who is also a poet. These are part of the series Imaginary Sonnets based on the 1888 collection of the same title—verse monologues each from the point of view of a different historical figure or literary character. Previous Imaginary Sonnets have been published in Measure, the Lyric, Philosophy Now, the Christian Century, Arion, Ars Medica, J Journal, Snakeskin, Gingerbread House, Volare, and the Scrivener Creative Review.
