Poet of the MonthrbdOri Fienberg, poet of the month, poetry

Ori Fienberg: August 2017 Poet of the Month

Poet of the MonthrbdOri Fienberg, poet of the month, poetry
Ori Fienberg: August 2017 Poet of the Month

Infrastructure

After years of planning by the foremost poets, only votes in the House and Senate remained; then, at last, they could begin work on the national sonnet.  Coney Island and former farmland in NH began preparing bids for verses, while the final couplet would be written on the Mississippi River.

Others protested the sonnet fiercely, insisting that the construction of a sonnet was best left in the hands of private contractors, or at least that each state should construct their own sonnet.  Some suggested that the government could never complete the sonnet in a timely fashion, and that after repeatedly extended deadlines, a villanelle was far more likely, or even that the whole project would devolve into rambling blank verse. 

Many politicians vowed to block the bill, on the basis that if a multi-year national poem project was begun, at the very least it should be in an American form. A bipartisan coalition against rhymes promised a filibuster; each member taking turns till they recited the entirety of Leaves of Grass.

A graduate of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program, Ori Fienberg’s short prose has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals including Beecher’s Magazine, Essay Daily, Entropy Magazine, The Laurel Review, and the Mid-American Review. Ori creates educational resources to promote academic integrity at the College of Professional Studies of Northeastern University in Boston, and lives with his wife, and dog, in Evanston, IL. Find more of his work at orifienberg.com.

Poet of the MonthrbdAlexandra Smyth, poet of the month, poetry

Alexandra Smyth: July 2016 Poet of the Month

Alexandra Smyth lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is a graduate of the City College of New York MFA Creative Writing Program. She was a finalist for the 2015 Cobalt Review Gabriela Mistral Poetry Prize and a recipient of the 2014 Poets and Writers Amy Award. Her work has appeared in Cobalt Review, Gravel, and TAB, among others. 

Poet of the MonthrbdAlexandra Smyth, poet of the month, poetry
Alexandra Smyth: July 2016 Poet of the Month
Poet of the MonthrbdJared Joseph, poet of the month, poetry

Jared Joseph: October 2017 Poet of the Month

Jared Joseph is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop MFA program, and os now pursuing my PhD in Literature at the University of California – Santa Cruz. Recent work has been published in Fence and Entropy Journal; 'Drowsy. Drowsy Baby' is forthcoming from Civil Coping Mechanisms press in September 2017. His book collaboration with Sara Peck, 'here you are,' is available from Horse Less Press.
 

Poet of the MonthrbdJared Joseph, poet of the month, poetry
Jared Joseph: October 2017 Poet of the Month
Poet of the MonthrbdMariel Fechik, poet of the month, poetry

Mariel Fechik: September 2018 Poet of the Month

Mariel Fechik lives in Chicago, IL and works in a library. She sings for the bands Fay Ray and Moon Mouth and writes music reviews for Atwood Magazine and Third Coast Review. She is a Bettering American Poetry nominee and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hobart, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Sundog Lit, and others. 

Poet of the MonthrbdMariel Fechik, poet of the month, poetry
Mariel Fechik: September 2018 Poet of the Month
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Christina M. Rau: February 2016 Poet of the Month

Christina M. Rau is the author of the poetry chapbooks WakeBreatheMove (Finishing Line Press, 2015) and For The Girls, I (Dancing Girl Press, 2014). Founder of Poets In Nassau, a reading circuit on Long Island, NY, her poetry has appeared on gallery walls in The Ekphrastic Poster Show, on car magnets for The Living Poetry Project, most recently in the journals The Main Street Rag and Parenthetical. In her non-writing life, she practices yoga occasionally and line dances on other occasions. Find her links on http://alifeofwe.blogspot.com

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Christina M. Rau: February 2016 Poet of the Month