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EMILY PÉREZ

EMILY PÉREZ is the author of What Flies Want, winner of the Iowa Prize and a finalist for a Colorado Book Award; House of Sugar, House of Stone, and two chapbooks. She co-edited the anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood, also a finalist for a Colorado Book Award. A CantoMundo fellow and Ledbury Critic, […]

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Melissa Studdard

MELISSA STUDDARD’s most recent book is the poetry collection Dear Selection Committee. Her awards include The Penn Review Poetry Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s Lucille Medwick Award, and the Tom Howard Award. Her work has been featured by PBS, NPR, The New York Times, Ms. Magazine, The Guardian, the Best American Poetry blog, and

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Suzanne Cleary

SUZANNE CLEARY’s most recent books are Crude Angel (2018) Beauty Mark (2013), both published by BkMk Press. Recipient of a Pushcart Prize, her other awards include the John Ciardi Prize and the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award of PSA. Her poems appear in Best American Poetry and in journals including The Atlantic, Southern Review, and Poetry

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Geffrey Davis

GEFFREY DAVIS is the author of three books, including the forthcoming One Wild Word Away (BOA Editions 2024). His second collection, Night Angler, won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets; and his debut, Revising the Storm, won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Davis lives in the Ozarks and teaches for

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Michael Collins

MICHAEL COLLINS’ poems and book reviews have received Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in more than 70 journals and magazines. He is also the author of the chapbooks How to Sing when People Cut off your Head and Leave it Floating in the Water and Harbor Mandala and the full-length collections Psalmandala and Appearances, which

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Joseph Kidney

JOSEPH KIDNEY has published poems in Arc, Vallum, The Fiddlehead, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed (in Arabic translation), and forthcoming in Best Canadian Poetry 2024. He was shortlisted for a Canadian National Magazine Award. His chapbook Terra Firma, Pharma Sea is available from Anstruther Press. He is currently completing a PhD in early modern drama at Stanford University.

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Ben Riggs

Ben Riggs is a writer, teacher, and podcaster. He traveled the world teaching in his 20s. During his journeys, he tutored a princess, saw both the Sahara and Mt. Fuji at dawn, and discovered his wife and fellow traveler, Tara. He has settled down in his hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he teaches English and

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Santee Frazier

A citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Santee Frazier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Syracuse University. He is the author of the poetry collections Aurum (2019) and Dark Thirty (2009). Offering non-romanticized and realistic portraits of great beauty, Santee’s poems afford a rare look at the truths of survival

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C.G. Hanzlicek

C. G. Hanzlicek was born in Owatonna, Minnesota, in 1942. He received a B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1964 and an M.F.A. from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1966. He is the author of nine books of poetry: Living in It, Stars (winner of the 1977 Devins Award for Poetry), Calling the Dead,

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Uncle Jim

“His feet leapt inches from God-given ground./His smile was toothy, laugh snapped toothy joy./His head—his heart—his head was tightly wound:” | by Ben Riggs

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