Nicole Oquendo and Mike Shier On Collaboration and Folie à Deux
Nicole Oquendo is a writer, educator, and editor interested in multimodal compositions and translations of nonfiction and poetry. She is a member of the Sundress Publications Board of Directors, an Assistant Editor for Flaming Giblet Press, the Managing Editor of The Florida Review, and the Nonfiction Editor of the annual Best of the Net Anthology. She is the author of the chapbooks some prophets (2015, Finishing Line Press) and self is wolf (2015, dancing girl press), and the hybrid memoir Telomeres (2015, Zoetic Press).
Mike Shier holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida Atlantic University and is currently in Illinois State University’s PhD program for the same. Other poems from Folie à Deux, a collaborative poetry chapbook manuscript written with Nicole Oquendo, have appeared in Menacing Hedge.
Haibun on the 650 lb. Grand Piano Standing Upright in Biscayne Bay
Brianna Noll is a Ph.D. candidate in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and she is Poetry Editor of The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in 32 Poems, The Kenyon Review Online, The Missouri Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Salt Hill, and elsewhere.
Love Poem with False Labyrinth
Joseph Mulholland is from Albuquerque, New Mexico. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Journal, Bayou, Beecher’s, Whisky Island, The Carolina Quarterly, and Notre Dame Review. He currently lives in San Juan and is a graduate student at the University of Puerto Rico.
National Park
Alex Greenberg is a 15-year-old poet whose work can be found or is forthcoming in The Florida Review, The Cortland Review, Kweli, and Spinning Jenny, among others. He was the recipient of the 2014 46er Prize for the Adirondack Review and the Critical Pass Review Junior Poets Prize.
Now You Have Many Legs to Stand On
Ashley-Elizabeth Best is from Cobourg, ON, Canada. She was on the poetry shortlist for the 2011 and 2013 Matrix Litpop Awards and Prism’s Poetry Prize 2012. Her work can be seen in Fjords, Tampa Review, CV2, The Columbia Review, Berfrois, The Rusty Toque, The Battersea Review, The Puritan, Zouch Magazine, Grist, and Branch Magazine, among other publications. She placed first for poetry in This Magazine’s Great Canadian Literary Hunt 2012, and was the poetry runner-up for subTerrain Magazine’s Lush Triumphant Literary Awards 2012. She has a chapbook published with Cactus Press called Slow States of Collapse. She lives and writes in Kingston, Ontario.
Breakfast
Jennifer Savran Kelly works as managing editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art and binds books in Ithaca, New York. Her fiction recently appeared in Stone Canoe, and her film Invisible Ink, co-written with Christopher Julian, was released by Vanguard Cinema in 2012. She is currently working on her first novel with generous support from the Writer to Writer Mentorship Program hosted by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.
Triptych by Daryl Farmer
Daryl Farmer’s first book, Bicycling Beyond the Divide, received a Barnes and Noble Discover Award. His recent work has appeared in The Whitefish Review, The Potomac Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, and Fourth River. He is an assistant professor at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks where he teaches creative writing and literature.
Imaginary Friends by Jacqueline Doyle and Stephen D. Gutierrez
Jacqueline Doyle and Stephen D. Gutierrez live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where they teach at California State University, East Bay. A recent Pushcart nominee, she has work in South Dakota Review, Ninth Letter online, South Loop Review, Confrontation, Southern Indiana Review, and a Notable Essay listed in Best American Essays 2013. His work can be found in Sudden Fiction Latino (W.W. Norton), New California Writing 2013 (Heyday), and Alaska Quarterly Review. He has published three collections of stories and essays: Elements (FC2), Live from Fresno y Los (Bear Star Press), winner of an American Book Award, and The Mexican Man in His Backyard (Roan Press). Learn more about Jacqueline Doyle and
Our Lives Happen Between the Memorable: A Review of Dexter L. Booth’s Scratching the Ghost
Review by Darius Stewart // January 13, 2015 Too often I’ve been asked, “what exactly is poetry?” The people who ask this question tend to be intelligent professionals—which bewilders me—and some of them, understandably, ask because they are so young; they ask because they haven’t (yet) been exposed to poetry in their compulsory curricula—at least not enough—and […]