This Is Not a Day at the Fair: On Poetry and PTSD by Jennifer Metsker
Jennifer Metsker’s poetry collection Hypergraphia and Other Failed Attempts at Paradise was published by New Issues Press. Her poetry has appeared in Beloit, Rhino, Birdfeast, Gulf Coast, The Cream City Review and other journals. Her audio poetry has been featured on the BBC Radio’s Short Cuts. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she is the Writing Coordinator at the Stamps School of Art and Design.
Deadheading and Other Stories by Beth Gilstrap
Reviewed by Mariah Rigg | June 14, 2022Red Hen Press, 2021Paperback, 232 pages, $22.95 Beth Gilstrap’s Deadheading and Other Stories is a love letter to the Carolinas, a collection that takes the much-documented recession and remakes it through the eyes of the Southern working class. As someone who did not grow up in North America, […]
Grocery Store Scientist
Joshua Gottlieb-Miller is a PhD candidate in poetry at the University of Houston. His writing can be found most recently in Talking Writing, Brooklyn Rail, and Miracle Monocle. Currently Joshua tutors in a Writing Center, is the weekend desk attendant for the Cy Twombly Gallery at The Menil Collection, and teaches a senior memoir workshop for Inprint as well as poetry for Writers in the Schools. Joshua lives in Houston with his wife, Lauren, and son, Owen.
Sometimes I Am Too Impatient for Poetry and Also for Sex
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J. Bailey Hutchinson is a poet from Memphis, Tennessee. Her debut collection, Gut, won the 2022 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. She is an associate editor at Milkweed Editions, and her work can be found in Muzzle Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Ninth Letter, and more. A complete list of her work can be found at jbaileyhutchinson.com
The Weather in Brooklyn
Jake Goldwasser is a poet and cartoonist based in Brooklyn. You can find his poetry in The Spectacle, The Meadow, and elsewhere. His cartoon work has appeared in The New Yorker, Weekly Humorist, and elsewhere. He is a New Jewish Culture Fellow for the 2020-2021 cycle, for which he is teaching a graphic memoir seminar. You can find him on Instagram at @jakegoldwasser.
Patrizate (intransitive verb)
Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer is a poet from Maryland. Their work has previously been published or is forthcoming in Memorious, The Roanoke Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and L’Éphémère Review. They were a poetry semifinalist for the 2017 St. Lawrence Book Award (Black Lawrence Press) and the 2019 and 2020 recipient of the Bryn Mawr Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize.
Ser La Leche
Clayre Benzadón is an MFA graduate student at the University of Miami, managing editor of Sinking City, and Broadsided Press’s Instagram editor. Her chapbook, “Liminal Zenith” was published by SurVision Books. She was also awarded the 2019 Alfred Boas Poetry Prize for “Linguistic Rewilding” and published in places including SWWIM, 14poems, and Crêpe and
Penn, as well as forthcoming in ANMLY and Fairy Tale Review. You can find more about her at clayrebenzadon.com.
(yikes!) Poetica
George Abraham (they/he) is a Palestinian american poet from Jacksonville, FL. They are the author of Birthright (Button Poetry) and the specimen’s apology (Sibling Rivalry Press). He is a recipient of fellowships from Kundiman and the Boston Foundation, and a board member for the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI). Their poetry and nonfiction have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Baffler, The Paris Review, The Missouri Review, Mizna, and elsewhere. He currently resides on stolen Massachusett land, where he is a Bioengineering PhD
candidate at Harvard University, and teaches in Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College.