Contributors

Poetry

 

The O’Brien in My Name

Ed O’Casey attended the University of North Texas and New Mexico State University. He is the author of the book Proximidad: A Mexican/American Memoir and other transformations that have appeared or are upcoming in Berkeley Poetry Review, Cold Mountain Review, Tulane Review, Euphony, Poetry Quarterly, Whiskey Island, and NANO Fiction. He lives in San Antonio, Texas. 

 

I Would Kiss this Man

David Sapp, writer, artist and professor, lives along the southern shore of Lake Erie in North America. A Pushcart nominee, he was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence grant and an Akron Soul Train fellowship for poetry. His poems appear widely in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. His publications include articles in the Journal of Creative Behavior; chapbooks Close to Home and Two Buddha; and a novel, Flying Over Erie.

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This Mountain

Jeff Fearnside’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including The Paris Review, The Fourth River Permafrost, Clackamas Literary  Review The Los Angeles Review, and Forest Under Story: Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest (University of Washington Press). Honors for his work include writing residencies at the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest and the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, a Peace Corps Writers Poetry Award, and an Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship. He’s taught writing and literature for many years, currently at Oregon State University.

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Opening Night

Museum of Lost Faith

Karen Douglass, MA, MFA has published five books of poetry, one of short fiction, and three novels, Accidental Child, Providence and Invisible Juan. Karen is a member of Lighthouse Writers’ Workshop, Climate Culture, and the Academy of American Poets. Her publication list is available at www.KVDbooks.com.

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The Face We Know, the Name

James Miller is a native of Houston, though he has spent time in the American Midwest, Europe, China, South America and India. Recent publications include Cold Mountain Review, The Maine Review, Lunch Ticket, Gravel, Main Street Rag and Juked.

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Even Zeus must get tired of the view sometimes

Casey Killingsworth has work in The American Journal of Poetry, Kimera, Spindrift, Rain, Slightly West, Timberline Review, COG, Common Ground Review, Typehouse, Bangalore Review, Two Thirds North, and other journals. His book of poems, A Handbook for Water, was published by Cranberry Press in 1995. As well he has a book on the poetry of Langston Hughes, The Black and Blue Collar Blues (VDM, 2008). He has a Master’s degree from Reed College.

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The Fly Fisher and the Surgeon

Dick Altman lives at 7,000 feet on New Mexico’s high desert plain, where he overlooks the Puebloan Rio Grande valley and five mountain ranges. Santa Fe Literary Review, American Journal of Poetry, riverSedge, Fredericksburg Literary Review, Foliate Oak, Blue Line, THE Magazine, Gravel, The Offbeat, Split Rock Review, Almagre Review, The Ravens Perch, Sky Island Journal and others here, in England and Australia have published his work. He won first prize for poetry in Santa Fe New Mexican’s 2015 writing competition. He earned an MA in English at the University of Chicago.

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Breach of Contract

Claire Scott is an award-winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has been accepted by the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review, Enizagam and Healing Muse, among others. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t. She is the co-author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.

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In My Other Lives

Hollie Dugas lives and teaches in New Mexico. Her work has been selected to be included in Barrow Street, Reed Magazine, Crab Creek Review, Pembroke, Salamander, Poet Lore, Watershed Review, Under the Gum Tree, Chiron Review, and CALYX. Hollie has been a finalist twice for the Peseroff Prize at Breakwater Review, Greg Grummer Poetry Prize at Phoebe, Fugue’s Annual Contest, and has received Honorable Mention in Broad River Review. Additionally, “A Woman’s Confession #5,162” was selected as the winner of Western Humanities Review Mountain West Writers’ Contest (2017). She is currently a member on the editorial board for Off the Coast.

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Solos

Ivanov Reyez was an English professor at Odessa College. His poetry has appeared in The Cafe Review, Paris Lit Up, Eclipse, Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art, Belleville Park Pages, Sierra Nevada Review, Pinyon, The Mayo Review, and other journals. He won the riverSedge Poetry Prize 2015. He is the author of Poems, Not Poetry (Finishing Line Press, 2013). His fiction has appeared in Texas Short Stories, 34th Parallel Magazine, Terra Incognita, El Locofoco, Sephardic-American Voices: Two Hundred Years of a Literary Legacy, and elsewhere. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in fiction.

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Birches

Danielle Hanson is the author of Fraying Edge of Sky (Codhill Press Poetry Prize, 2018) and Ambushing Water (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2017). Her work has appeared in over 80 journals, won the Vi Gale Award from Hubbub, was Finalist for 2018 Georgia Author of the Year Award and was nominated for several Pushcarts and Best of the Nets. She is Poetry Editor for Doubleback Books and is on the staff of the Atlanta Review. Her poetry has been the basis for visual art included in the exhibit EVERLASTING BLOOM at the Hambidge Center Art Gallery, and Haunting the Wrong House, a puppet show at the Center for Puppetry Arts. More about her at daniellejhanson.com.

 

I Dream About Animals

Donald Illich has published poetry in journals such as The Iowa Review, Fourteen Hills, and Cold Mountain Review. He won Honorable Mention in the Washington Prize book contest. He recently published a book, Chance Bodies (The Word Works, 2018).

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How to Write a Poem in the Time of Swine

Notes From My Hood in the Time of COVID-19

Cesar L. DeLeon lives and works in the South Texas Borderlands. His work has been published in Pilgrimage, The Acentos Review, Queen Mob’s Tea House, La Bloga, and the anthologies Pulse/Pulso: In Rememberance of Orlando, Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands, and Texas Weather Anthology, among others.