Bonnie S. Kaplan is a poet and educator who has worked with the justice-involved for over 25 years. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, most recently in Sinister Wisdom, Room, and The Bellevue Literary Review (Issue #40) where her poem, “Mastectomy, Simple,” was a finalist for the 2021 Marica and Jan Vilcek Poetry Prize. See more at bonnieskaplan.com
Eric Dessner MD is an ophthalmologist in private practice in Brooklyn, NY.
He’s the founder of www.medmic.com
Erin Greenhalgh is a writer, collage artist, photographer, and the author of Specimen, a zine about the power of attention and the natural world. Works of hers have also appeared in Psaltery and Lyre and Sweet Lit. You can find her work at indie bookstores in Denver.
Sara Henning is an assistant professor of English at Marshall University.
This poem was first published in
Sweet Lit.
It will also appear in the forthcoming collection of poetry entitled “Burn” published by the Southern
Illinois University Press (2024).
This poem was originally published in the Radar Poetry Journal.
Amy Miller’s writing has appeared in Barrow Street, Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, Nimrod, Rattle, RHINO, Terrain, Tupelo Quarterly, Willow Springs, ZYZZYVA, Fine Gardening, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and many editions of the Poet’s Market. She is the editor-in-chief of the small boutique publisher Cyclone Press.
Ms. Amy Miller can be reached at:
http://writers-island.blogspot.com/
River Elizabeth Hall (she/her) is a poet and naturalist with degrees from Fairhaven College and Antioch University Seattle. Her work has appeared in Bear Review, Main Street Rag, Moist Poetry, Nimrod, Parentheses Journal and Tinderbox among others.
She is a 2023 Best of the Net Nominee and winner of Tinderbox Poetry’s 2022 Majda Gama Editor’s Prize. In 2021, she was a semi-finalist in the The Floating Bridge Chapbook competition and was long-listed for the Palette Poetry Prize and the Frontier Open. She is the founder of Seattle Writers Circle, an online workshop series dedicated to creating supportive community, inclusion and creative exploration for writers of all genres and abilities. Learn more about her writing and other offerings at RiverElizabethHall.com
Naomi Dean teaches ESL at a public elementary school in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, where she lives with her husband, son, and daughter. Naomi’s work has recently appeared in Poetica, Sylvia, The Madrigal, NiftyLit, Collateral, Plainsongs and JAMA.
Naomi Dean teaches ESL at a public elementary school in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, where she lives with her husband, son, and daughter. Naomi’s work has recently appeared in Poetica, Sylvia, The Madrigal, NiftyLit, Collateral, Plainsongs and JAMA.
Ben Groner III (Nashville, TN), recipient of a Pushcart Prize nomination
and Texas A&M University’s 2014 Gordone Award for undergraduate
poetry, has work published in Rust + Moth, GASHER, Whale Road
Review, The Shore, Cheat River Review, and elsewhere. You can see more of his work at.
https://bengroner.com/
This poem was originally published in The Shore.
Over the past 30 years John Barr’s poems have been published in five books, four fine press editions, and many magazines, including The New York Times, Poetry, and others. He was also the Inaugural President of the Poetry Foundation. His newest book, The Boxer of Quirinal, will be published by Red Hen Press in June 2023.