Brianna Johnson
Brianna Johnson is the author of Fire Sale, an experimental prose manifesto detailing the economic decline of love, the body, and America in 18 movements. She has earned her B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College where she was mentored by, among others, Rebecca Brown, Douglas Martin, Bhanu Kapil, and Darcey Steinke. Her work has been featured in Tarpaulin Sky Magazine, the HazMat Literary Review and Spout Magazine....
Mary Johnson
Mary Johnson is author of the memoir An Unquenchable Thirst, named one of 2011’s best books by Kirkus Review. Her need for support while writing was the catalyst for the founding of A Room of Her Own Foundation. Johnson is AROHO’s Creative Director of Retreats, and is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony. Her work has been widely published, including in The New York Times, The Washington Post, O the Oprah Magazine, Poets &...
Bhanu Kapil
Bhanu Kapil is a multi-genre and multi-talented writer writing at the intersection of poetry, prose, and non-fiction. As a teacher, Bhanu focuses on generative, experimental writing practice, with a focus on returning to works or parts of works that were discarded, inert, or tossed aside. Bhanu has written The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: A Space for Monsters (Leon Works, 2006/Kelsey...
Page Lambert
Winner of AROHO’s 2009 Orlando Nonfiction Award and a 2003 Literary Fellowship in Poetry from the Wyoming Arts Council, Page Lambert’s books include the memoir In Search of Kinship (Fulcrum) and the novel Shifting Stars(Forge/Tor). Her essays and poems appear in dozens of anthologies, including Orion, Pilgrimage, Santa Fe Literary Review and West of 98: Living and Writing the American West. Page has presented at over 200 seminars and...
Jan La Roche
Jan La Roche is the editor of Oberon Poetry magazine. She is represented online at poetryvlog.com reading five of her poems and on the writing blog Feral Writer, Feral Mom in an interview “AROHO Speaks, Writer to Writer.” Her poems have appeared in Oberon, Mobius and Paumanok, Poems and Pictures of Long Island and will appear in the forthcomingPaumanok II. She co-authored 25 years poems drawings with her husband, Jef...
Does the sea remember everything? I wonder.
Does she absorb everything? Does she keep it safe?
Virginia Woolf
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The Q: Can you fathom the spectacle that would be created if we moved together, arms outstretched, close enough to touch?
The Q: What echoes through you that longs to take form—a poem, an image, a mark, a whisper of becoming?
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