Not Trump SeriesrbdAmy Strauss Friedman, nottrump, poetry

Amy Strauss Friedman: #NotTrump Series

Not Trump SeriesrbdAmy Strauss Friedman, nottrump, poetry
Amy Strauss Friedman: #NotTrump Series
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Note: This poem is an erasure of one of Trump's tweets during his first 100 days in office.

Amy Strauss Friedman is the author of the chapbook Gathered Bones are Known to Wander (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016). Her poems have appeared in The Rumpus, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Escape Into Life, FLAPPERHOUSE, Red Paint Hill, decomP magazinE, and elsewhere. Amy earned her MA in Comparative Literature from Northwestern University. She was born and raised in Chicago where she taught English at Harper College and at Northwestern’s Center for Talent Development. She recently moved to Denver, Colorado where she teaches poetry to elementary school students. Her work can be found at amystraussfriedman.com.

Not Trump Seriesrbdchelsea whitton, nottrump, poetry

Chelsea Whitton: #NotTrump Series

Chelsea Whitton is a southern poet and essayist living in Ridgewood, Queens. Her poems have appeared in various web and print publications, including Sixth Finch, Forklift, Ohio, Bateau, WomenArts Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Ilk and Valley Voices. She hold an MFA from the New School. Read more of her work at www.chelseawhitton.com.

Not Trump Seriesrbdchelsea whitton, nottrump, poetry
Chelsea Whitton: #NotTrump Series
Not Trump SeriesrbdMonica Rowley, nottrump, poetry

Monica Rowley: #NotTrump Series

Monica Rowley teaches amazing high school students in Brooklyn, noting that they are far better than she is at trigonometry and pentameter. She loves sharks and tigers, Gilgamesh, and Ramprasad Sen's poetry to the Goddess Kali. She is the oldest of seven, and her siblings are her best friends. She considers this turn of sibling luck the best fortune she could have.  Monica has been the recipient of several grants and awards, including one from the National Endowment for the Humanities. If you would like to read more of her poems, check them out on Brooklyn Poets’ The Bridge or in the upcoming issue of the Irish literary journal, The Ogham Stone.

Not Trump SeriesrbdMonica Rowley, nottrump, poetry
Monica Rowley: #NotTrump Series
Not Trump SeriesrbdJen DeGregorio, nottrump, poetry

Jen DeGregorio: #NotTrump Series

Jen DeGregorio's poetry has appeared in Apogee online, The Baltimore Review, The Collagist, The Cossack Review, PANK, Spoon River Poetry Review, Women's Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her writing has won scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and Hunter College in New York, where she received her MFA in creative writing. She teaches writing to undergraduates in New York and New Jersey and, come September, will be a PhD candidate in English/Creative Writing at Binghamton University (State University of New York).

Not Trump SeriesrbdJen DeGregorio, nottrump, poetry
Jen DeGregorio: #NotTrump Series