Special FeaturerbdJenna Cardinale, special feature, poetry

Jenna Cardinale: This Monochrome Isn’t Catching

Special FeaturerbdJenna Cardinale, special feature, poetry
Jenna Cardinale: This Monochrome Isn’t Catching
Luca Bravo

Luca Bravo

Immanent

 

Maybe this chirping, which swings

into wider song--Maybe it’s mocking

the pace of my living.

                                    What is this whirring.

                  But I’ve never seen

                  a baby bird sleeping.

Even the flowers, arranged

around these small squared

yards, are feverish.

                                    Future fuchsia.

                                    A light slice.

                  This monochrome isn’t catching.

Jenna Cardinale writes poems. Some of them appear in Reality Beach, Luna Luna Magazine, The Fem, and H_NGM_N. Her chapbook, “A California,” will be published by Dancing Girl Press in 2017.  She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

 

Special FeaturerbdJulia Knobloch, special feature, poetry

Julia Knobloch: Don’t Break the Spell

Julia Knobloch is a journalist and translator turned project manager and executive assistant. Before moving to New York from Berlin, she worked 10+ years as a writer and producer for TV documentaries and radio features. Her essays and reportages have been published in print and online publications in Germany, Argentina, and the US (openDemocracy, Brooklyn Rail, Reality Sandwich). She occasionally blogs for ReformJudaism.org, and she recently was awarded the Poem of the Year prize from Brooklyn Poets for her poem Daylight Saving Time. Julia lives in Sunset Park. 

Special FeaturerbdJulia Knobloch, special feature, poetry
Julia Knobloch: Don’t Break the Spell
Special FeaturerbdCatherine Esposito Prescott, special feature, poetry

Catherine Esposito Prescott: To Forgive Us Everything

Catherine Esposito Prescott is the author of the chapbooks Maria Sings (forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press) and The Living Ruin (Finishing Line Press).  Recent poems have appeared in Pleiades, Southern Poetry Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Poetry East, MiPOesias, and elsewhere.  A graduate of NYU’s MFA program in Creative Writing-Poetry, Catherine is cofounder and curator of the SWWIM reading series.  She lives in Miami Beach with her husband, two sons, and daughter.

Special FeaturerbdCatherine Esposito Prescott, special feature, poetry
Catherine Esposito Prescott: To Forgive Us Everything
Art, Special Featurerbdabigail welhouse, ted chevalier, art, poetry, illustrations, special feature

Abigail Welhouse: Whispers for Your Safety

Abigail Welhouse is the author of Bad Baby (dancing girl press), Too Many Humans of New York (Bottlecap Press), and Memento Mori (a poem/comic collaboration with Evan Johnston). Her writing has been published in The Toast, The Billfold, Ghost Ocean Magazine, the Heavy Feather Review, and elsewhere. Subscribe to her Secret Poems at tinyletter.com/welhouse

Art, Special Featurerbdabigail welhouse, ted chevalier, art, poetry, illustrations, special feature
Abigail Welhouse: Whispers for Your Safety
Special FeaturerbdTara Shea Burke, poetry, special feature

Tara Shea Burke: Who Lives and Who Dies

Tara Shea Burke is a queer poet from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She served as poetry editor and co-creator for several small literary journals, and is a guest editor and board member for Sinister Wisdom, a Multicultural Lesbian Literature and Arts Journal. Her chapbook Let the Body Beg was published in 2014, and recent poems can be found in Adrienne, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Minola Review, Public Pool, The Fem, and Whale Road Review. She has taught in Virginia, New Mexico, and Colorado. She lives in Denver. www.tarasheaburke.com

Special FeaturerbdTara Shea Burke, poetry, special feature
Tara Shea Burke: Who Lives and Who Dies
Special FeaturerbdCatie Hannigan, poetry, special feature

Catie Hannigan: Endlessly into Nowhere

Catie Hannigan is a poet and visual artist from Maine. Her first chapbook, What Once Was There Is The Most Beautiful Thing, was published by DIAGRAM / New Michigan Press in 2015. Her second chapbook, Water Fragments, is a poetic essay on water and islands, and is forthcoming from Tammy Journal in 2017. She received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. More work can be found at www.catiehannigan.com.

Special FeaturerbdCatie Hannigan, poetry, special feature
Catie Hannigan: Endlessly into Nowhere