Poetry
Bliss as a Metaphor for the Catenary Curve
Michael T. Lawson studied poetry and biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning a PhD in the latter and fostering a love of the former. His work has been published in Tar River Poetry, Ninth Letter, Nimrod International Journal, and Four Way Review, among others. He currently resides in Boston, MA, where he works as a data analyst.
Labor Day, 1961, Last Poolside Event
Among John Tabb DuVal’s awards for verse translation are a major NEA and two awards from the Avcademy of American Poets. His Song of Roland was a finalist for the PEN Translation Award in 2013. Fabliaux, Fair and Foul (translations of Medieval French comic verse tales) has been reissued twice and a reissue of From Adam to Adam: Seven Old French Plays is forthcoming.
essay on distance
Juliana Chang is a Taiwanese American poet. Her debute poetry chapbook, INHERITANCE, was the winner of the 2020 Vella Prize and published with Paper Nautilus Press in 2021. Juliana’s work appears or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, The Chestnut Review, diode poetry journal, and other journals. She is a student at Harvard Law School, where she is a Presidential Public Service Fellow and an editor of the ,em.Harvard Law Review.
Alive in Ohio
Abby Wheeler lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was a 2021 finalist for the Great Midwest Writing Contest, and has work published or forthcoming in SWWIM, The Free State Review and elsewhere. Her chapbook, In the Roots, is available from Finishing Line Press.
Confessional to Famous Iranian Pop Singer Dariush II
Darius Atefat-Peckham is an Iranian-American poet and essayist. His work has appeared in Indiana Review, Barrow Street, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Florida Review, Brevity, Crab Orchard Review and elsewhere. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora (University of Texas Press). Atefat-Peckham lives in Huntington, West Virginia and studies Creative Writing at Harvard College.
beach house
Rachel B. Glaser is the author of the novel Paulina & Fran, the short story collection Pee On Water, and the poetry books MOODS and HAIRDO. Glaser studied painting at RISD and received her MFA in Creative Writing from Umass-Amherst. In 2017, she was on Granta’s list of Best of Young American Novelists. Her fiction has been anthologized in New American Stories. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts and teaches at the Mountainview Low-Residency MFA.
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The Ferry
John Poch’s most recent books are God’s Poems: The Beauty of Poetry and the Christian Imagination (St. Augustine’s Press 2022) and Notes on the Poet (Measure Press 2023).
my ruins
Jerry Lieblich (they/them) plays in the borderlands of theater, poetry, and music. Their work experiments with language as a way to explore unexpected textures of consciousness and attention. Plays include D Deb Debbie Deborah (Critic’s Pick: NY Times), Ghost Stories (Critic’s Pick: TimeOut NY), and Everything for Dawn (Experiments in Opera). Their poetry has appeared in Foglifter, SOLAR, Pomona Valley Review, Cold Mountain Review, and Works and Days. Jerry has held residencies at MadCowell, MassMoCA, Blue Mountain Center, Millay Arts, and UCROSS, and is a Helix Fellow with Yiddishkayt. MFA: Brooklyn College. www.thirdear.nyc, IG: @apophatic_attic.
Bliss as a Metaphor for the Catenary Curve
Michael T. Lawson studied poetry and biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning a PhD in the latter and fostering a love of the former. His work has been published in Tar River Poetry, Ninth Letter, Nimrod International Journal, and Four Way Review, among others. He currently resides in Boston, MA, where he works as a data analyst.
Labor Day, 1961, Last Poolside Event
Among John Tabb DuVal’s awards for verse translation are a major NEA and two awards from the Avcademy of American Poets. His Song of Roland was a finalist for the PEN Translation Award in 2013. Fabliaux, Fair and Foul (translations of Medieval French comic verse tales) has been reissued twice and a reissue of From Adam to Adam: Seven Old French Plays is forthcoming.
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