edited by Sarah Mangold
the sixth issue
features new work by:
Rae Armantrout
Jeannine Hall Gailey
Stefania Heim
Anna Maria Hong
Carrie Hunter
Michael Leong
erica lewis
Melanie Noel
Bronka Nowicka
Meredith Stricker
Katarzyna Szuster
Mark Tardi
Elizabeth Clark Wessel
Angela Veronica Wong
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Author biographies:
Rae Armantrout’s most
recent books, Versed, Money Shot, Just
Saying, Itself, Partly: New and Selected Poems, Entanglements, (a
chapbook selection of poems in conversation with physics), and Wobble were published by Wesleyan
University Press. Wobble, a finalist
for the 2018 National Book Award, was selected by Library Journal as one of the seven best poetry books of 2018. In
2010 her book Versed won the Pulitzer
Prize in Poetry and The National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems have
appeared in many anthologies and journals including Poetry, Conjunctions, Lana Turner, The Nation, The New Yorker, Bomb,
Harper’s, The Paris Review, Postmodern American Poetry: a Norton Anthology, The
Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine, etc. She is recently retired from UC San Diego
where she was professor of poetry and poetics. She lives in the Seattle area.
Jeannine Hall
Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington.
She's the author of five books of poetry: Becoming the Villainess, She
Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The
Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and Field Guide to the End of the
World, winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and the SFPA's Elgin
Award. Her work appeared in journals such as American Poetry Review, Notre
Dame Review and Prairie Schooner. Her web site is www.webbish6.com. Twitter and
Instagram: @webbish6.
Stefania Heim is author of the
poetry collections HOUR BOOK (Ahsahta Press, 2019) and A
Table That Goes On for Miles (Switchback Books, 2014). The recipient
of a 2019 NEA Translation Fellowship, her book of translations of metaphysical
artist Giorgio de Chirico's Italian poems, Geometry of Shadows, is
forthcoming with A Public Space Books. She teaches at Western Washington
University.
Anna Maria Hong
is the author of the novella H & G (Sidebrow
Books), winner of the A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Clarissa Dalloway Prize,
and Age of Glass, winner of Cleveland
State University Poetry Center’s First Book Poetry Competition and the Poetry
Society of America’s 2019 Norma Farber First Book Award. Her second poetry collection, Fablesque,
won Tupelo Press’s Berkshire Prize and is forthcoming in June 2020. A former Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for
Advanced Study, she has published work in The Nation, The Iowa Review, Ecotone,
amberflora, jubilat, Fence, New Delta Review, Jet Fuel Review, Jacket2,
American Book Review, Poetry Daily, The Best American Poetry, and many
other publications.
Carrie Hunter received her MFA/MA
in the Poetics program at New College of California, is on the editorial board
of Black Radish Books, and edited the chapbook press, ypolita press, for 11 years.
She has two books out with Black Radish Books, The Incompossible and Orphan
Machines, and has published around 15 chapbooks, the most recent, Series out of Sequence, from above/ground press. Her third full length book, Vibratory
Milieu, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books in 2020. She lives in San
Francisco and teaches ESL.
Michael Leong teaches in the
School of Critical Studies at CalArts. His most recent books are Who
Unfolded My Origami Brain? (Fence Digital, 2017) and Words on Edge (Black
Square Editions, 2018).
erica lewis lives in San
Francisco. In addition to mary wants to be a superwoman, her
books include the precipice of jupiter, camera
obscura (both collaborations with artist Mark Stephen Finein), murmur
in the inventory, daryl hall is my boyfriend, and mary
wants to be a superwoman. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Melanie Noel is the author
of The Monarchs (Stockport Flats, 2013) and a Ringing (Goodmorning
Menagerie, 2019). Her poems have also appeared in THERMOS, Weekday, La Norda Especialo, Seattle Review of Books, and The
Arcadia Project.
Bronka Nowicka is a Polish theatre and TV director,
screenwriter, poet and interdisciplinary artist. She is a graduate of the
National Film School in Lodz, Poland, and the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts. Her
literary debut, Nakarmic kamien [To Feed the Stone] was awarded the 2016
Nike Literary Award and the Zloty Srodek Poezji Award [“Golden Mean of
Poetry”]. In 2017, she was a laureate of the New Voices from Europe project.
The English-language debut of To Feed The Stone is forthcoming from
Dalkey Archive Press in 2020.
Meredith Stricker is a visual artist
and poet working in cross-genre media. She is the author of Our Animal,
Omnidawn Open Book Prize; Tenderness Shore which received the National
Poetry Series Award; Alphabet Theater, mixed-media performance
poetry from Wesleyan University Press; Mistake, Caketrain Chapbook
Award and anemochore selected for the Gloria Anzaldúa chapbook
prize, Newfound Press. She was short-listed for the Four Quartets
Prize from the Poetry Society of America and the T.S. Eliot Foundation
for anemochore. Her work will appear in the 2019 Best
American Experimental Writing anthology from Wesleyan. She
co-directs visual poetry studio, a collaborative that focuses on
architecture in Big Sur, California and projects to bring together artists,
writers, musicians and experimental forms. https://www.meredithstricker.com.
Katarzyna Szuster earned her MA in
English studies from the University of Lodz, Poland and was a lecturer at the
Department of Foreign Languages, University of Nizwa in Oman. She has
translated various Polish poets into English, such as Miron Białoszewski, Justyna Bargielska, and Bronka Nowicka. Her
translations have been published in Aufgabe, Free Over Blood, Moria,
Biweekly, Words without Borders, diode, Toad Press and Tripwire. Her
translation of Bronka Nowicka’s To Feed The Stone is forthcoming from
Dalkey Archive Press in 2020.
Mark Tardi is originally from Chicago and earned
his MFA from Brown University. His publications include the books The Circus
of Trust, Airport music, and Euclid Shudders. He has guest-curated a
selection of contemporary Polish poetry for the international journals Aufgabe
and Berlin Quarterly, and recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Notre
Dame Review, The Continental Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, Jet Fuel Review,
textsound and Tammy. He has received fellowships from the Vermont
Studio Center, Millay Colony for the Arts, the Djerassi Foundation, and Brown
University. A former Fulbright scholar, he now lives with his family and two
dogs in a village in central Poland and is on faculty at the University of Łódź.
Elizabeth Clark Wessel is the author of four chapbooks of
poetry, a founding editor at Argos Book, and the translator of
numerous novels from the Swedish, including most recently What We Owe by
Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde. Originally from rural Nebraska, she spent many years
living in New York and Connecticut, and these days calls Stockholm, Sweden
home. She has translated a chapbook of poems called Seeking an Older, Well-Educated
Gentleman by Kristina Lugn that is forthcoming from Bloof in
2019.
Angela Veronica Wong is a
writer, artist, and educator living in New York City. She is the author of Elsa: An Unauthorized Autobiography
(Black Radish Books, 2017), the full-length How
to Survive a Hotel Fire (Coconut Books) and the chapbook Dear Johnny, In Your Last Letter, a
winner of the Poetry Society of America New York Fellowship. Her poetry has
been anthologized in The Best American
Poetry (with Amy Lawless) and Please
Excuse This Poem.
