VINYL POETRY
Volume 6, July 2012
Carol Berg’s poems are forthcoming or in Pebble Lake Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, qarrtsiluni, blossombones, Spillway, and elsewhere. Two chapbooks, Ophelia Unraveling (dancing girl press), and Small Portrait and the Woman Holding A Flood In Her Mouth (Binge Press), are forthcoming in 2012. She blogs here.(vol. 6)
Serena Chopra is a 2010 Kundiman fellow and the 2011 Writer-In-Residence at RedLine Gallery in Denver. She is recently published in Denver Quarterly, Fact-Simile, The Laurel Review, VOLT, Versal, Hot Metal Bridge, and No Tell Motel. She is the author of the chapbooks Speaking to Your Man (Peninsulas Now Press, 2010) and Penumbra (Flying Guillotine Press, 2012). Her first full-length book will come out from Coconut Books in 2013. She lives and works in Denver where she will begin her doctorate studies in Creative Writing at the University of Denver in Fall 2012.(vol. 6)
Christina Collins is a 2010 graduate of the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. Her writing has appeared in burntdistrict and hopefully some other places. More of her work can be found at her blog, Sixteen Coyotes. She lives in Seattle in a comically small apartment and works enough part-time jobs to qualify as one full-time job.(vol. 6)
Brandon Courtney was born and raised in Iowa and spent four years in the United States Navy. His poetry is forthcoming or appears in Best New Poets 2009, The Journal, The Raleigh Review, 32 Poems, and The Los Angeles Review among many others, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and recently won an Academy of American Poets Prize. He recently graduated from the MFA program at Hollins University.(vol. 6)
Kristina Marie Darling is the author of several books of poetry, which include Palimpsest (Patasola Press, forthcoming in 2012) and The Moon & Other Inventions: Poems After Joseph Cornell (BlazeVOX Books, forthcoming in 2012). Her awards include a Yaddo fellowship and an artist grant from the Kittredge Fund.(vol. 6)
Chris Emslie is assistant editor at ILK journal. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Artifice, Sixth Finch and The Found Poetry Review, among others. He lives in Scotland but is planning his getaway.(vol. 6)
Rebecca Hazelton has been published The Boston Review, Agni, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and others. Her work has been featured on Verse Daily and Inknode. She was the 2010-2011 Jay C. and Ruth Hall Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Creative Writing Institute, and was included in Best New Poets 2011. In 2012, she won The Discovery/Boston Review Prize. Her book, Fair Copy, won The Ohio State Press/The Journal Award in Poetry and is forthcoming in the fall. More at rebeccahazelton.net.(vol. 6)
Alec Hershman lives in St. Louis where he teaches at Florissant Valley Community College and at The Center for Humanities at Washington University. Other poems of his can be found in recent issues of Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, CutBank, Sycamore Review, Juked, The Journal, Lumina, Harpur Palate, Burnside Review, and Saltwater Quarterly. His e-chapbook Jollyboats can be viewed for free online at The White Whale Review.(vol. 6)
Rob Kenagy received his MFA from Virginia Tech. He has worked as poetry editor for Toad and has work forthcoming in Forklift, Ohio and Gargoyle. He writes and records music as Ganges.(vol. 6)
Robert Kloss is the author of How the Days of Love and Diphtheria and The Alligators of Abraham.(vol. 3)(vol. 6)
Tony Mancus lives in Rosslyn, VA with his wife and their two cats. He is co-founder of Flying Guillotine Press and he currently has a chapbook out with Greying Ghost Press called Bye Land.Its counterpart, Bye Sea, will be published by Tree Light Books later this year. He keeps an outdated blog at inlandskirting.blogspot.com.(vol. 2)(vol. 6)
Nick McRae is the author of Mountain Redemption (Black Lawrence Press, 2013), winner of the Black River chapbook competition, and of Moravia (Folded Word Press, 2013). His recent work is forthcoming in Drunken Boat, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Southern Review, Third Coast, and elsewhere. Nick has recently been a Fulbright fellow in the Slovak Republic and a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He is now Poetry Review Editor for The Journal.(vol. 6)
Robert Ostrom is from Jamestown, New York. He is the author of The Youngest Butcher in Illinois (YesYes, Fall 2012) and two chapbooks, To Show the Living (The New York Center for Book Arts) and Nether and Qualms (Projective Industries). His poems have most recently appeared in Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Gulf Coast, and Cut Bank. He lives in Queens and teaches at the City University of New York and Columbia.(vol. 6)
Jean-Paul Pecqueur’s recent poems can be read in the current issues of Forklift, Ohio, Ping Pong, H_NGM_N, and Fence. You can also find some older poems in his volume The Case Against Happiness published by Alice James Books.(vol. 6)
Curtis Perdue is the author of the chapbook You Will Island (forthcoming, H_NGM_M 2012). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bateau, Willow Springs, LEVELER, Horse Less Review, Jellyfish Magazine, and iO. He founded and edits interrupture, an online journal of poetry and art.(vol. 6)
Donika Ross is a Cave Canem Fellow and received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Indiana Review and Best New Poets 2007. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Vanderbilt University.(vol. 6)
Emmalea Russo is a poet and visual artist who grew up in Eastern Pennsylvania. She has hitchhiked around Iceland, lived deep in the Louisiana bayou, and moved to California in the middle of the night. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ambush Review, Anderbo, Counterexample Poetics, Otoliths, Yew Journal and others. Currently, she is finishing an MFA in Poetry at Vermont College of Fine Arts and is the founder / editor of em:me magazine, an online space dedicated to experiments in poetry and visual art. More can be found here(vol. 6)
Bernd Sauermann graduated from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, with an M.A. in English and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (poetry) in 1993. Since leaving Louisiana, he’s taught at Belleville Area College in Belleville, Illinois; The Community College of Vermont in St. Alban’s, Vermont; at The University of Phoenix; and he is currently a professor in the Division of Fine Arts and Humanities at Hopkinsville Community College in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where he teaches composition, literature, and film. He is also the poetry editor at Whole Beast Rag.(vol. 6)
Michael Schmeltzer earned an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. His honors include four Pushcart Prize nominations, the Gulf Stream Award for Poetry, and the Blue Earth Review’s Flash Fiction Prize. Schmeltzer most recently was a finalist for the Four Way Books Intro Prize. He helps operate and edit A River & Sound Review and has been published in Bellingham Review, Natural Bridge, Mid-American Review, Water~Stone Review, and New York Quarterly, among others.(vol. 6)
Jennifer Schomburg Kanke’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pleiades, The Laurel Review, Fugue, and Earth’s Daughters. She currently serves as Poetry Editor for The Southeast Review and is a doctoral student at Florida State University.(vol. 6)
Danez Smith is a poet, performer, and playwright from St. Paul, MN now living in Madison, WI. A Cave Canem fellow, Danez is published or forthcoming in PANK, Phantom Limb, Orange Quarterly, and elsewhere. Danez is a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a founding member of the First Wave Hip-Hop Theatre Ensemble, who he now works for. Danez recently placed 6th in the world at the Individual World Poetry Slam and has performed his poetry and his theatre production For Those Who Pray In Closets across the United States and the UK.(vol. 6)
Karrie Waarala holds an MFA from the Stonecoast Program at University of Southern Maine and is a teaching artist at The Rooster Moans Poetry Cooperative. Her work has appeared in journals such as Iron Horse Literary Review, PANK, The Collagist, Muzzle, and Arsenic Lobster. Karrie has received critical acclaim for her one-woman show, LONG GONE: A Poetry Sideshow, which is based on her collection of circus poems. She really wishes she could tame tigers and swallow swords. www.poetrysideshow.com(vol. 6)
Megan Williams writes, farms, and waits tables in Boise, Idaho, where she curates GHOSTS & PROJECTORS. a poetry reading series. Her poetry was named runner-up in the "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Contest 2011, and has appeared in journals such as Tin House, PANK, and G E M, among others.(vol. 6)
Erica Wright is the author of Instructions for Killing the Jackal (Black Lawrence Press, 2011) and the chapbook Silt (Dancing Girl Press, 2010). She is also the poetry editor at Guernica Magazine.(vol. 6)