In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

Contributors aaron belz is the author of Plausible Worlds (Observable, 2005), The Bird Hoverer (BlazeVOX, 2007), and Lovely, Raspberry (Persea, 2010). He lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina. ciaran berry’s first collection, The Sphere of Birds, was published in North America by Southern Illinois University Press in 2008. His work has appeared in the Best American Poetry, Pushcart, and Best New Poets anthologies as well as a number of journals, including AGNI, Crazyhorse, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, and The Threepenny Review. paula bohince is the author of two poetry collections, both from Sarabande: The Children (2012) and Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods (2008). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Times Literary Supplement , Poetry London, and The Yale Review. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Amy Clampitt Trust, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, as well as the “Discovery”/The Nation Award and the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship. She lives in Pennsylvania. shane book’s first collection, Ceiling of Sticks, won the 2009 Prairie Schooner Book Prize, the 2012 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and was a 2011 Poetry Society of America “New American Poet” Selection. He is a graduate of New York University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines in the United States, the United Kingdom, and 184 Canada—and on film. His honors include a New York Times Fellowship in Poetry, fellowships to the Flaherty Film Seminar and Telluride Film Festival, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a National Magazine Award. b. h. boston received his BA in English from California State University, Fresno, and his MFA from the Writing Program at the University of California –Irvine. His work has appeared in numerous magazines, including Crazyhorse, Black Warrior Review, Western Humanities Review, Ploughshares, and Blackbird, as well as in various anthologies. His most recent collection of poems, By All Lights, was published by Tebot Bach Press. Boston is Co–Poetry Editor for Poetry International at San Diego State University and curator of the Master Author Residency Program at La Jolla Country Day School in La Jolla. xochiquetzal candelaria is the author of Empire, published by the University of Arizona Press. Her work has appeared in The Nation, The New England Review, Gulf Coast, The Seneca Review, and other literary journals. She holds an MFA degree from New York University and has received multiple fellowships, including from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches at San Francisco City College. colin cheney’s debut collection of poems, Here Be Monsters (University of Georgia, 2010), was selected for the National Poetry Series. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Guernica, Poetry, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Crazyhorse, and Gulf Coast. He has received a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He is a founding editor of Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art. He lives in Bangkok with his wife and daughter. michael clifton was born in Reedley, California, in 1949 and grew up on various army bases around the world before his family settled in Fresno in 1960. He attended California State University, Fresno, where he received both a BA and an MA in English before getting a PhD in American Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. He teaches at California State University , Fresno, and has poems included in Down at the Santa Fe Depot: Twenty Fresno Poets and How Much Earth: The Fresno Poets. Whatever Lasts in Winter, published by Tebot Bach in 2004, is his first book-length publication. michael collier’s most recent collection of poems is An Individual History (W. W. Norton, 2012). He teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Maryland and is the director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. 185 nicole cooley grew up in New Orleans and is the author most recently of two collections of poems, Breach (LSU Press, 2010) and Milk Dress (Alice James Books, 2010). She has also published two other books of poems and a novel. She directs the new MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College–City University of New York where she is a professor of English. She lives outside of New York City with her husband and two daughters. kate daniels is the author of four volumes of poetry, including A Walk in Victoria’s Secret, her most recent. She has written...

Share