VINYL POETRY
Volume 7, February 2013
Emma Aylor is an English honors student at the College of William & Mary, writing editor for The Juvenilia, and a staff writer for both The Juvenilia and The Female Gaze. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Used Furniture Review, Handsome, Birdfeast, Two Serious Ladies, and elsewhere.(vol. 7)
Doug Paul Case is an MFA candidate at Indiana University, where he is web editor of Indiana Review and is probably wearing a cardigan. His poems have been published in Columbia Poetry Review, Fourteen Hills, ILK Journal, and others.(vol. 7)
Mark Derks serves as Fiction Editor for Vinyl. He’s a recent graduate of the MFA program at Virginia Tech. He lives and writes in Washington, DC.(vol. 7)
Stevie Edwards is currently an MFA candidate in creative writing at Cornell University. Her first full-length collection of poetry, Good Grief, was published by Write Bloody Publishing in April 2012. She is currently working on her second book, tentatively titled No Apocalypse. She is Editor-in-Chief of Muzzle Magazine, Head Honcho of Brusque Magazine, Editor of 4th & Verse Books, and Assistant Editor of EPOCH. Her work has appeared in several publications, including Verse Daily, Rattle, Night Train, PANK, Union Station, and decomP.(vol. 7)
Hafizah Geter is a South Carolina native currently living in Brooklyn, New York. She is a Cave Canem Fellow and the recipient of a 2012 Amy Award from Poets & Writers. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in BOXCAR Poetry Review, RHINO, Drunken Boat, New Delta Review, Memorious, Linebreak, and Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art. www.hafizahgeter.com(vol. 7)
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is queer black troublemaker, a black feminist love evangelist and an afro-antillean grandchild. She has a PhD in English, Africana Studies and Women’s Studies from Duke University. Her poems appear in publications like Kweli, Make/Shift, Left Turn and in several anthologies. She is also the founder of the School of Our Lorde and the Juneteenth Freedom Academy for poets. She lives and loves in Durham, North Carolina and you can find her at alexispauline.com.(vol. 7)
James Allen Hall is the author of Now You’re the Enemy, which won awards from the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Other poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2012, New England Review, American Poetry Review, and Bloom. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, he teaches creative writing and literature in upstate New York.(vol. 7)
Terrance Hayes is the author of Lighthead (Penguin, 2010), Wind in a Box (Penguin, 2006), Hip Logic (Penguin, 2002) and Muscular Music (Carnegie Mellon University Contemporary Classics, 2005, and Tia Chucha Press, 1999). His honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.(vol. 7)
Pushcart Prize nominee Kevin Heaton writes in South Carolina. His work has appeared in a number of publications including: Raleigh Review, Mason’s Road, Foundling Review, The Honey Land Review, and elimae. His fourth chapbook of poetry, Chronicles, has just been released by Finishing Line Press. He is a 2011 Best of the Net nominee.(vol. 7)
Melanie Henderson was born in Washington, DC. She earned an MFA from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA and previously studied poetry at the Voices Summer Writing Workshops and Howard University. Her debut collection of poems, Elegies for New York Avenue, won the 2011 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. She also received a Larry Neal Writers’ Award and is the Managing Editor of Tidal Basin Review. Learn more at www.melmichelle.com.(vol. 7)
Bob Hicok’s seventh collection, Elegy Owed, is forthcoming from Copper
Canyon. He recently released the chapbook Speaking American as part of
Frequencies, Volume 1: A Chapbook and Music Anthology (YesYes Books).
This Clumsy Living (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007) will be offered
in a German translation by Luxbooks in 2013.(vol. 1)(vol. 2)(vol. 7)
Lindsey Hutchison graduated from The College of William & Mary with a B.A. in English and History. Lately she’s been putting down roots in Richmond, VA, keeping her day job, and submitting poetry all over. She is a regular contributor at The Juvenilia and has been published in Paper Darts and Bullet Quarterly.(vol. 7)
Alan King is an author, poet, and journalist who lives in the DC metropolitan area. He writes about art and domestic issues here. In addition to teaching at Duke Ellington, he’s also the senior program director at the DC Creative Writing Workshop, a Cave Canem fellow and VONA Alum. Alan is currently a Stonecoast MFA candidate, and has been nominated twice for a Best of the Net selection. He is also a Pushcart Prize nominee. Drift (Aquarius Press, 2012) is his first book.(vol. 7)
Sarah Levine received her MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Work has been published in Everyday Genius, Elimae, Ghost Town, among others. Levine won Westchester Review’s 2013 Writers’ Under 30 Poetry Contest and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.(vol. 7)
M.G. Martin is the author of One For None (Ink), and the chapbook Fall Out Of Your Skin (Pangur Ban Party). A Pushcart Nominee, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Word Riot, PANK, Shampoo, ZYZZYVA, and Explosion Proof, among others. M.G. lives in Brooklyn where he is an associate editor for death hums. Find him here.(vol. 7)
Joe Milazzo is the author of The Terraces (Das Arquibancadas) (Little Red Leaves textile Series, 2012). His writings have appeared in H_NGM_N, The Collagist, Drunken Boat, Black Clock, and elsewhere. Along with Janice Lee and Eric Lindley, he edits the online interdisciplinary arts journal [out of nothing]. Joe lives and works in Dallas, TX, and his virtual location is here.(vol. 7)
John Mortara writes and edits VoicemailPoems.org in Wilmington, North Carolina. More of his work can be found at johnmortara.com.(vol. 7)
Ladan Osman is originally from Somalia. A 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee, she received her M.F.A. as a Michener Fellow from the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in "American Life in Poetry," Artful Dodge, Broadsided, The Feminist Wire, Kweli, MELUS, Narrative, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, and riverbabble. She works as a teaching artist in Chicago schools.(vol. 7)
Roger Reeves’s poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and Tin House, among others. Kim Addonizio selected “Kletic of Walt Whitman” for the Best New Poets 2009 anthology. He was awarded a 2013 NEA Fellowship, Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation in 2008, two Bread Loaf Scholarships, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and two Cave Canem Fellowships. Recently, he earned his Ph.D. the University of Texas and is currently an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His first book, King Me, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in October 2013.(vol. 7)
Sara Tracey is a poet and teacher in Chicago, Illinois. She is the author of Some Kind of Shelter (forthcoming from Misty Publications), and Flood Year (dancing girl press, September 2009). Her work has recently appeared in Arsenic Lobster, The Collagist, Harpur Palate and Passages North. She is a regular performer in The Chicago Poetry Bordello and a teaching artist in The Rooster Moans Poetry Cooperative.(vol. 7)
Matthew Vollmer is the author of the short story collection Future Missionaries of America and the collection of essays inscriptions for headstones recently released by outpost 19. He is also the co-editor of Fakes: an Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts and Other Fraudulent Artifacts from W.W. Norton.(vol. 7)
Joshua Young is the author of When the Wolves Quit: A Play-in-Verse (Gold Wake Press) and To the Chapel of Light (Mud Luscious Press/Nephew), as well as the forthcoming collaborative collection The Diegesis written with Chas Hoppe (Gold Wake Press, 2013). He studies poetry in the MFA program at Columbia College Chicago, where he also teaches writing and serves as an editor for the Columbia Poetry Review. He lives in the Lincoln Square neighborhood with his wife, their son, and their dog. For info on his writing, films, and other projects visit here.(vol. 7)
Nikki Zielinski’s poems currently appear in Sou’Wester, Southern Humanities Review, PANK, Birmingham Poetry Review, and New Madrid. She was the Northwest Review Fellow at University of Oregon, where she received her MFA, and has recently received prizes and fellowships from the Bridport Arts Centre, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. She lives in Cleveland and loses her keys often.(vol. 7)