Ruth L. Schwartz
Ruth L. Schwartz has published four award-winning books of poems, includingDear Good Naked Morning, selected by Alicia Ostriker for the 2004 Autumn House Poetry Prize, and Edgewater, a 2001 National Poetry Series winner chosen by Jane Hirshfield. Ruth is also the author of a memoir, Death in Reverse: A Love Story(Michigan State University Press, 2004). Recipient of over a dozen national writing awards, including fellowships from...
Joy Shayne Laughter
Joy Shayne Laughter is a graduate of Indiana University. She has lived in Seattle and New York City, as a journalist, editor, screenwriter, performance artist, office worker and house cleaner. She wrote her first novel, Yu: A Ross Lamos Mystery, while housesitting in elegant homelessness. Yu went on to win second place in a 2006 national literary contest, and was published in 2010 by Open Books Press. Her short story “The...
Catherine Shubert
Catherine Shubert is currently a high school teacher of Spanish in Philadelphia as part of Teach For America. She has, according to her students, “got swagger.” She graduated this spring from the University of Pennsylvania with a Master’s degree in Urban Education and graduated in 2009 from the University of Michigan with a B.A. with honors in English. She has attended Oxford University as a study abroad student (an experience which...
Susa Silvermarie
Susa Silvermarie is the author of Tales From My Teachers on the Alzheimer’s Unit, three chapbooks of poetry, and hundreds of poems published in periodicals over the last forty years, as well as recent children’s stories. She has edited six anthologies of poetry composed in her nursing home workshops, and her freelance credits include features, columns and essays. She recently taught storytelling to kindergarteners in public school and...
Jennifer Simpson
Jennifer Simpson is in the final stretch of the MFA program at the University of New Mexico– working on her dissertation, “Reconstructing My Mother,” a memoir. She is the founder and co-host of Duke City DimeStories, a monthy open mic for prose, and serves as managing editor for Blue Mesa Review. Her work has been published in Bartleby Snopes, Creative Human, and welding industry trade magazines likePractical...
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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