VINYL POETRY

Volume 5, March 2012

BIRDIE

Contributor’s Notes

Maureen Alsop is the author of one full length collection of poetry, Apparition Wren, and several chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in a variety of journals including AGNI, Kenyon Review, The Laurel Review, and Blackbird. www.maureenalsop.com(vol. 5)

Derrick Austin is a graduate of the University of Tampa with a BA in English and Writing. His poems have appeared in Tidal Basin Review, Crab Orchard Review, storySouth, The Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle and other journals. He can be reached at derricklynn.austin@gmail.com.(vol. 5)

Justin Boening is the 2012-2013 Philip Roth Fellow at Bucknell’s Stadler Center for Poetry, and an MFA graduate of Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He’s an Associate Editor at Poetry Northwest, and the Editor of Acquisitions at YesYes Books. Justin’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM and elimae, among others. He’s also received fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center, Summer Literary Seminars, and was a finalist for the 2010 Ruth Lilly Fellowship and a runner-up for the 2012 "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Prize. Justin will be teaching this summer at Columbia University’s High School Summer Program in New York City.(vol. 5)

Anhvu Buchanan is the recipient of the 2010 James D. Phelan Award for his poetry manuscript The Disorder Index, which also was a finalist for Cleveland State University 2011 First Book Award. He has received an Individual Artists Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Columbia Poetry Review, Cream City Review, Eleven Eleven, Heavy Feather Review, > kill author, The Minnesota Review, word for/ word, and ZYZZYVA. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and is currently a Teaching Artist for WritersCorps. You can find him online at anhvubuchanan.com.(vol. 5)

Kelly Davio is the Managing Editor of The Los Angeles Review and reads poetry for Fifth Wednesday Journal. She is the author of Burn This House, forthcoming from Red Hen Press. Her work has appeared in Gargoyle, Pank, The Cincinnati Review, Women’s Review of Books, Best New Poets 2009, and others. She lives in Seattle. (vol. 5)

Kendra DeColo’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, CALYX, Printer’s Devil Review, and the 2012 Best of the Net anthology. She is the recipient of a work-study scholarship from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, residency awards from the Millay Colony and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a Split This Rock Prize: Poems of Witness and Provocation. Kendra is the founding poetry editor of Nashville Review and has taught writing workshops in prisons, hospitals, middle schools and homeless shelters.(vol. 5)

Carol Dorf’s poems have appeared in in Sin Fronteras, Spillway, Hip Mama: The Parenting Zine, The Mom Egg, In Posse Review, Moira, Feminist Studies, Heresies, Fringe, The Midway, Poemeleon, Runes, and 13th Moon. They have been anthologized in Not a Muse, Boomer Girls, and elsewhere. She is poetry editor of Talking Writing, and teaches mathematics at Berkeley High School.(vol. 5)

Elizabeth Drewry’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Arkansas Review, Motif, Tiferet, Conclave, Kakalak, the Emrys Journal, the Emrys Foundation’s Visible Voices, and Hub City Writers’ Still Home. She recently received an Honorable Mention in Tupelo Press’s Spring Poetry Competition, and was a finalist for the Jo Harjo 2012 Poetry Competition. A former newspaper executive in New York and California, she now lives and writes in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains.(vol. 5)

Jameson Fitzpatrick is a poetry editor for Lambda Literary Review and a reader for Barrow Street. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Knockout Literary Magazine, Stirring, and the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival’s Fresh Voices 2008 chapbook, among elsewhere. He lives in New York.(vol. 5)

Krista Franklin is a poet, visual artist and performer from Dayton, OH who lives and works in Chicago. Her poetry and mixed medium collages have been published in lifestyle and literary journals such as The New Sound, Coon Bidness, Copper Nickel, RATTLE, Indiana Review, Ecotone, Clam and Callaloo, and in the anthologies Encyclopedia Vol. II, F-K and Gathering Ground. Her visual art has been featured on the covers of award-winning books, and exhibited nationally in solo and group exhibitions, and her chapbook Study of Love & Black Body was recently published by Willow Books. Franklin is a Cave Canem Fellow, a co-founder of 2nd Sun Salon, a community meeting space for writers, visual and performance artists, musicians and scholars.(vol. 5)

Ray Gonzalez is the author of twelve books of poetry including Faith Run (University of Arizona Press, 2009), Cool Auditor: Prose Poems (BOA Editions, 2009) The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande (2003 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry), and Consideration of the Guitar: New and Selected Poems (2005). Turtle Pictures (Arizona, 2000) received the 2001 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry.(vol. 5)

A. Minetta Gould was raised in the Mittens by a beautician. She is the author of two chapbooks, Arousing Notoriety (Publishing Genius) and Dutch Baby Combo (the boys are talking about restlessness at five points) (Spooky Girlfriend), both in 2011. Minetta lives in Boise, ID and is the Managing Editor of Black Ocean.(vol. 5)

Sara Eliza Johnson’s work has appeared in a variety of places, including Best New Poets 2009, Verse Daily, New England Review, Shenandoah, Iron Horse Literary Review, Willow Springs, Memorious, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and a Winter Fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She lives in Los Angeles.(vol. 5)

A 2011 Pushcart Prize Nominee, Saeed Jones received his MFA from Rutgers University — Newark. His work has appeared or forthcoming in publications like Hayden’s Ferry Review, Jubilat, West Branch, and Blackbird. His chapbook When the Only Light is Fire is available from Sibling Rivalry Press. He blogs regularly atsaeedjones.com.(vol. 5)

Nate Marshall is the star of the award winning full-length documentary Louder Than A Bomb and has been featured on HBO’s Brave New Voices. He is from the South Side of Chicago and studied English and African American Studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. His work has appeared in The Spoken Word Revolution: Redux, The Vanderbilt Review, on Chicago Public Radio and in many other publications. New School Poetics Press released his second chapbook of poetry, Unconditional Like. He was a 2010 finalist for the Guild Complex’s Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award. He is also a rapper.(vol. 5)

Rachel McKibbens hibernates in upstate New York with four of her five children, an ornery dog and a handsome grizzly bear. Her poems, short stories and nonfiction have appeared in several spots, including The Nervous Breakdown, The American Poetry Journal, Stone Canoe and Muzzle Magazine. Her first book of poetry, Pink Elephant (Cypher Books) was released in 2009. Stalk her at www.rachelmckibbens.com.(vol. 5)

Originally from California, Diana Khoi Nguyen is completing an MFA at Columbia University where she is currently a teaching fellow and was the poetry editor of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art. A recipient of awards from the Key West Literary Seminar and the Academy of American Poets, she has also received scholarships from The Center for Book Arts and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Her poems appear in Pool Poetry, Devil’s Lake, elimae, and elsewhere.(vol. 5)

Brittany Perham teaches at Stanford University, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. Her first collection of poems, The Curiosities, will be available from Parlor Press in November 2011, and her recent work may be found in Southern Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, Linebreak, and Lo-Ball. She is a member of the art band collective Nonstop Beautiful Ladies and she lives in San Francisco. www.brittanyperham.com(vol. 5)

Christopher Prewitt lives with his wife in Blacksburg, VA. He’s worked in retail and fast food in addition to various positions in education. He regularly publishes poetry, fiction, and essays.(vol. 5)

Keli Stewart’s writing has appeared in Quiddity, Meridians, Naugatuck River Review, Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas, Calyx, Reverie and Spaces Between Us, among other journals. She received artist fellowships from Hedgebrook, where she was awarded the 2010 Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Award, and the Augusta Savage Gallery’s Arts International Residency Program. She was awarded the first place 2010 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award from the Illinois Center for the Book Emerging Writers Prize and is also an alum of the Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation and Callaloo Summer Writing Workshops. She is currently at work on her first poetry collection.(vol. 5)

Marcus Wicker was born in an Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Cave Canem and Indiana University, where he received his MFA. His first book, Maybe the Saddest Thing, was selected by DA Powell for the National Poetry Series and is forthcoming from Harper Collins in 2012. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Beloit, Ninth Letter, and Crab Orchard Review, among other journals.(vol. 5)

Wendy Xu is the author of the chapbook The Hero Poems (H_NGM_N BKS). Recent poems have appeared, or are forthcoming in Diagram, CutBank, Columbia Poetry Review, Third Coast, MAKE, InDigest, ANTI-, Dark Sky Magazine and elsewhere. She co-edits iO: A Journal of New American Poetry / iO Books, and lives in Northampton.(vol. 5)