Issue 2
spring 2014
Issue 2, Spring 2014
Steve Alvarez
Daniel Ari
Marcia Arrieta
Richard Baldasty
Jane Beal
Joel Chace
Edward Dougherty
Larry Eby
Kate Falvey
Brad Garber
Nicholas Grinder
Jnana Hodson
Tim Kahl
Anna King
James Sander
Cindy Rinne
Marsha Schuh
Andrew Stone
JeFF Stumpo
Mark Young
Changming Yuan
Daniel Ari
Marcia Arrieta
Richard Baldasty
Jane Beal
Joel Chace
Edward Dougherty
Larry Eby
Kate Falvey
Brad Garber
Nicholas Grinder
Jnana Hodson
Tim Kahl
Anna King
James Sander
Cindy Rinne
Marsha Schuh
Andrew Stone
JeFF Stumpo
Mark Young
Changming Yuan
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Joel chaceJoel Chace has work in The Tip of the Knife, Counterexample, Poetics, OR, Country Music, Infinity’s Kitchen, Jacket and elsewhere. He has published print and electronic collections, most recently Sharpsburg, from Cy Gist Press, Blake’s Tree, from Blue & Yellow Dog Press, Whole Cloth, from Avantacular Press, Red Power, from Quarter After Press, and Black Circle, from Delete Press.
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Tim kahlTim Kahl is the author of Possessing Yourself (CW books, 2009) and The Century of Travel (CW Books, 2012). His work has been published in Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, Notre Dame Review, The Journal, Parthenon West Review, The Offending Adam, Prick of the Spindle, Caliban and many other journals in the U.S. He appears as Victor Schnickelfritz at the poetry and poetics blog The Great American Pinup and the poetry video blog Linebreak Studios. He is also editor of Bald Trickster Press and Clade Song. He is the vice president and events coordinator of The Sacramento Poetry Center. He currently teaches at The University of the Pacific. He currently houses his father’s literary estate—one volume: Robert Gerstmann’s book of photos of Chile, 1932.
Are You Michelle Mendoza
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Daniel AriDevoted to the practice of poetry since 1985, Daniel Ari writes and publishes extensively. Shuf Poetry, Writer’s Digest, McSweeney’s, 42 Magazine, Pif Magazine, Ceramics Now, Defenestration and Conscious Dancer have recently published his writing. Daniel leads creative writing events and performances throughout the Pacific Northwest including at his home in Richmond, California. His blogs are IMUNURI and Fights with Poems.
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Larry EbyLarry Eby writes out of Southern California and is attending CSUSB’s MFA Program for Poetry. His work has recently appeared in The Redlands Review, Poetry Quarterly, The Sand Canyon Review, Badlands, The Coachella Review, Aperçus Quarterly, Welter, Inlandia, The Secret Handshake, and Call of the Wild: Being Human by Editions Bibliotekos, as well as others. Apart from scribbling away in his home, he is an active member of PoetrIE, an Inland Empire based writing community, and recently founded his own press, Orange Monkey Publishing. He is also the poetry editor for Ghost Town, CSUSB’s national literary journal, and on the Board of Publications for the Inlandia Institute.
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Richard baldastyHis poetry and short prose have appeared in Pinyon, Epoch, and New Delta Review among other literary magazines. He has also had work archived online including publication in AntipodeanSF, Café Irreal, Dark Fire, and Marco Polo Literary Arts; Twitter verse at escarp and Twitter fiction at Seven by Twenty; literary collage in Fickle Muses and Ray’s Road Review.
He characterizes this work as “collage with text: drive-by epic poetry.” Prajnesh shock for fancied Rastogi
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Jnana hodsonJnana’s Harbor of Grace, a chapbook of prose poems, was published in the summer of 2012 by Fowlpox Press. He blogs at Jnana’s Red Barn.
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Joel ChaceJoel Chace has work in The Tip of the Knife, Counterexample, Poetics, OR, Country Music, Infinity’s Kitchen, Jacket and elsewhere. He has published print and electronic collections, most recently Sharpsburg, from Cy Gist Press, Blake’s Tree, from Blue & Yellow Dog Press, Whole Cloth, from Avantacular Press, Red Power, from Quarter After Press, and Black Circle, from Delete Press.
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Mark YoungMark Young has been publishing poetry for nearly fifty-five years. His work has been widely anthologized, & his essays & poetry translated into a number of languages. He is the author of more than twenty books, primarily poetry but also including speculative fiction & art history. A new e- & hardcopy book, Rebuilding the Submarine, will soon be out from Quarter After Press. He is the editor of the ezine Otoliths, & lives on the Tropic of Capricorn in Australia. Recent work has appeared or is to appear in Moria, Fact-Simile, The Last Vispo Anthology, Eccolinguistics, Ditch, Cricket Online Review, 3 a.m., E·ratio, Streetcake Magazine, Gobbet, Tip of the Knife, Cordite, Country Music, Caliban Online, Quarter After, BlazeVOX, & Marsh Hawk Review amongst other places.
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Daniel AriDevoted to the practice of poetry since 1985, Daniel Ari writes and publishes extensively. Shuf Poetry, Writer’s Digest, McSweeney’s, 42 Magazine, Pif Magazine, Ceramics Now, Defenestration and Conscious Dancer have recently published his writing. Daniel leads creative writing events and performances throughout the Pacific Northwest including at his home in Richmond, California. His blogs are IMUNURI and Fights with Poems.
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Anna KingAnna King is currently working on her PhD in poetry at Georgia State University. She works as a high school English teacher and lives with her daughter Aralyn in McDonough, Georgia. For fun, she likes to read Victor Hugo and Sylvia Plath. Her latest poems appear in West Trade Review, the Unorean, Fortunates, and Quercus.
Anna says about her poems, “These poems are a blending of playwriting and poetry, as well as prose and poetry. They are all part of my second manuscript that follows the narrative of characters who must cope with the loss following cancer and the 1918 flu epidemic.” Theories Part 1
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Brad GarberBrad has published poetry in Cream City Review, Alchemy, Fireweed, “gape seed” (an anthology published by Uphook Press), Front Range Review, theNewerYork Press, Taekwondo Times, Ray’s Road Review, Flowers & Vortexes (Promise of Light), Emerge Literary Journal, Generation Press, Penduline Press, Dead Flowers: A Poetry Rag, New Verse News, The Whirlwind Review, Gambling the Aisle, Dark Matter Journal, Sundog Lit and Mercury. Nominee: 2013 Pushcart Prize for poem, “Where We May Be Found.” His essays have been published in Brainstorm NW, Naturally magazine and N, The Magazine of Naturist Living. He has also published erotica in Oysters & Chocolate, Clean Sheets and MindFuckFiction.
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Jane Beal, PhD is a professor at Colorado Christian University where she teaches literature and creative writing. She writes poetry, fiction, literary criticism, young adult fantasy, and creative nonfiction. Her work appears in The Avocet Review, BirthWorks, The Illinois Audobon Society Magazine, Main Street Rag, Midwifery Today, Nota Bene, The Oklahoma Review, Orbit du Novo, A Prairie Journal, The Pub, Qasida, Ruminate, Squat: A Birth Journal, and anthologies such as Closer to God and The Live Poets of Alexandria Anthology.
She is the author of more than a dozen poetry collections, including Sanctuary (Finishing Line Press, 2008) and The Roots of Apples (Lulu Press, 2012), as well as a short story collection, Eight Stories from Undiscovered Countries (Lulu Press, 2009) and an academic monograph, John Trevisa and the English Polychronicon (ACMRS & Brepols, 2012). She is the editor of Illuminating Moses: A History of Reception (Brill, forthcoming 2013), coeditor of Translating the Past: Essays on Medieval Literature (ACMRS, 2012), and the voice of Songs from the Secret Life (Shiloh Studio of Sound, 2009), a CD of her poetry read aloud. |
She enjoys birdwatching, walking with her beloved miniature dachshund, Joyful, and making music with others by singing, playing flute or striking up the percussion. To learn more, please visit her website here.
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Joel ChaceJoel Chace has work in The Tip of the Knife, Counterexample, Poetics, OR, Country Music, Infinity’s Kitchen, Jacket and elsewhere. He has published print and electronic collections, most recently Sharpsburg, from Cy Gist Press, Blake’s Tree, from Blue & Yellow Dog Press, Whole Cloth, from Avantacular Press, Red Power, from Quarter After Press, and Black Circle, from Delete Press.
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Marcia ArrietaMarcia Arrieta is a poet and artist. Her work appears in Web Conjunctions, Ellipsis, Cold Mountain Review, Osiris, BluePrint Review, Alice Blue, Ditch, Eratio, Moria, The Last VISPO Anthology, and great weather for MEDIA’s It’s Animal but Merciful. She is the author of one book of poetry, triskelion, tiger moth, tangram, thyme (Otoliths Press), and two chapbooks, experimental: (Potes & Poets Press) and the curve against the linear (Toadlily Press’s The Quartet Series—An Uncommon Accord). She edits and publishes Indefinite Space, a poetry journal.
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Andrew stoneAndrew J. Stone currently attends Seattle Pacific University where he is working on a B.A. in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. He originally hails from Los Angeles. His debut chapbook, “Teenage Angst & the Ekphrastic Exercise,” will be available from Collective Banter Press in January 2013. Other work has been featured in over 80 literary journals including: right hand pointing, Zygote in my Coffee, & The Mind[less] Muse. In 2010 his poetry won a national medal through the Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards. Find him in the graveyard.
He says about his poems, “They invite the reader into it by allowing them to create the certain words or by wondering what word was originally there. In a sense, it is quite similar to Mad Libs.” The Moon_Her Worshippers
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Cindy rinneCindy Rinne creates art and writes in San Bernardino, CA. Cindy won an Honorable Mention in The Rattling Wall Poetry Contest. Cindy is a Guest Author for Saint Julian Press. She is a founding member of PoetrIE, an Inland Empire based literary community. Her work appeared or is forthcoming in shuf poetry, Poetry Quarterly, The Prose-Poem Project, The Wild Lemon Project Literary Journal, Welter Literary Magazine, The Sand Canyon Review, Inlandia, A Literary Journal, Lili Literary Journal, and Phantom Seed. Cindy is collaborating on two chapbooks and working on a manuscript.
Find her website here. grafts to me
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Mark YoungMark Young has been publishing poetry for nearly fifty-five years. His work has been widely anthologized, & his essays & poetry translated into a number of languages. He is the author of more than twenty books, primarily poetry but also including speculative fiction & art history. A new e- & hardcopy book, Rebuilding the Submarine, will soon be out from Quarter After Press. He is the editor of the ezine Otoliths, & lives on the Tropic of Capricorn in Australia. Recent work has appeared or is to appear in Moria, Fact-Simile, The Last Vispo Anthology, Eccolinguistics, Ditch, Cricket Online Review, 3 a.m., E·ratio, Streetcake Magazine, Gobbet, Tip of the Knife, Cordite, Country Music, Caliban Online, Quarter After, BlazeVOX, & Marsh Hawk Review amongst other places.
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Marsha SchuhMarsha Schuh is an instructor of English composition at CSUSB who holds an MBA with a concentration in Information Technology and an MA in English Composition and an MFA in poetry from CSUSB. Her publications include a coauthored college text, Computer Networking for Prentice Hall and poetry in Pacific Review, Badlands, Sand Canyon Review, Meat, and other journals. She and her husband Dave live in Ontario, CA.
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Tim kahlTim Kahl is the author of Possessing Yourself (CW books, 2009) and The Century of Travel (CW Books, 2012). His work has been published in Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, Notre Dame Review, The Journal, Parthenon West Review, The Offending Adam, Prick of the Spindle, Caliban and many other journals in the U.S. He appears as Victor Schnickelfritz at the poetry and poetics blog The Great American Pinup and the poetry video blog Linebreak Studios. He is also editor of Bald Trickster Press and Clade Song. He is the vice president and events coordinator of The Sacramento Poetry Center. He currently teaches at The University of the Pacific. He currently houses his father’s literary estate—one volume: Robert Gerstmann’s book of photos of Chile, 1932.
Are You MIchelle Mendoza
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jnana hodsonJnana’s Harbor of Grace, a chapbook of prose poems, was published in the summer of 2012 by Fowlpox Press. He blogs at Jnana’s Red Barn.
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Jeff stumpoJeFF Stumpo is the author of three chapbooks, the first of which, a multilingual poetic sequence titled El Océano y la Serpiente / The Ocean and the Serpent, is being released in a new edition this year by Seven Kitchens Press. He has a website with various projects.
He says about his poetic sequence, diluvium, which we have used two pages, “diluvium… utilizes both traditional and experimental verse to reinvent the myth of Noah’s ark. In the center of each page is an 8-line poem representing the conscious utterances of Noah and/or his wife (the first page you have is both of them, the second is Noah, identified by his sans serif typeface). Surrounding them is a shifting “ocean” of free verse, word salad, borrowed lines, and visual poetry (wings, a hurricane, the darkness of the hold, etc.) that represents their subconsciouses, or perhaps a Collective Unconscious. Other selections from diluvium have appeared in or are forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, qarrtsiluni, and Gesture.” from dilivium
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Andrew stoneAndrew J. Stone currently attends Seattle Pacific University where he is working on a B.A. in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. He originally hails from Los Angeles. His debut chapbook, “Teenage Angst & the Ekphrastic Exercise,” will be available from Collective Banter Press in January 2013. Other work has been featured in over 80 literary journals including: right hand pointing, Zygote in my Coffee, & The Mind[less] Muse. In 2010 his poetry won a national medal through the Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards. Find him in the graveyard.
He says about his poems, “They invite the reader into it by allowing them to create the certain words or by wondering what word was originally there. In a sense, it is quite similar to Mad Libs.” The Moon_Her Worshippers
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Jane BealJane Beal, PhD is a professor at Colorado Christian University where she teaches literature and creative writing. She writes poetry, fiction, literary criticism, young adult fantasy, and creative nonfiction. Her work appears in The Avocet Review, BirthWorks, The Illinois Audobon Society Magazine, Main Street Rag, Midwifery Today, Nota Bene, The Oklahoma Review, Orbit du Novo, A Prairie Journal, The Pub, Qasida, Ruminate, Squat: A Birth Journal, and anthologies such as Closer to God and The Live Poets of Alexandria Anthology.
She is the author of more than a dozen poetry collections, including Sanctuary (Finishing Line Press, 2008) and The Roots of Apples (Lulu Press, 2012), as well as a short story collection, Eight Stories from Undiscovered Countries (Lulu Press, 2009) and an academic monograph, John Trevisa and the English Polychronicon (ACMRS & Brepols, 2012). She is the editor of Illuminating Moses: A History of Reception (Brill, forthcoming 2013), coeditor of Translating the Past: Essays on Medieval Literature (ACMRS, 2012), and the voice of Songs from the Secret Life (Shiloh Studio of Sound, 2009), a CD of her poetry read aloud. She enjoys birdwatching, walking with her beloved miniature dachshund, Joyful, and making music with others by singing, playing flute or striking up the percussion. To learn more, please visit her website here. Saxophone in F
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Nicolas grinderNicholas Grinder is an artist, curator and writer who has lived and worked in Los Angeles and Milwaukee. Working in photography, installation and performance, his work is most concerned with failures of memory and history as well as representations of masculinity in contemporary culture. The work here explores those ideas as well as ideas of decoration and abstraction, and is now usually built into installations that weigh one body of work against another, placing them in conversation with each other.
He says about his work, “my immediate intent in the project these works come from is to display and investigate grief in unsentimental terms, and in my broader practice my goal is to use simple “everyday” words and phrases in combinations or arrangements that jolt the text out of easy meaning/reading.” Lack of Eulogy
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Kate falveyKate Falvey’s poetry and fiction have appeared in many print and online journals, including Memoir(and), Umbrella, Hoboeye, Danse Macabre, Subliminal Interiors, Italian Americana, and Literary Mama. She is on the editorial board of the Bellevue Literary Review and the editor in chief of the 2 Bridges Review. Chapbooks What the Sea Washes Up (Dancing Girl Press) and Morning Constitutional in Sunhat and Bolero (Green Fuse) are forthcoming.
About her work she says, “As someone with intermittent technophobia, I have been both attracted to and repelled by new media – but hodgepodge I get and so have begun to fool a little more with text. I wish I could be a graphic artist and have made attempts to combine words with amateurish drawings – but these I keep so far to myself. What I have been doing is collecting margin jottings (tiny, suggestive) from my many unfinished (voluminous, ponderous) manuscripts – and making scrap-poems out of them. If I can get up courage enough to include some drawings, I will definitely feel all over young again – inordinately pleased to still have some newish tricks up my sleeve.” Astral Endorsement: Discarded Words
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steve alvarezSteven Alvarez is an Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of The Pocho Codex (2011) and The Xicano Genome (2012), both published by Editorial Paroxismo.
About his work he says “My poems speak to the contemporary “post”-Xicano experience, amid current immigration debates that touch so many lives in the United States beyond the Southwest borderlands in the twenty-first century. I grew up in southern Arizona, and my aesthetic reflects the synergy that composes my hyphenated American identity, and what I deem as my Neo-Baroque Xicano experimentalism. My writing comes from someplace I can’t reach deep within an emerging ethnic consciousness, bounded by words internalized from languages intersecting at borders. My ars poetica reasons that poetry happens from within the socially constraining aspects of language, which we all practice in daily life, with real people. We all play language games every day because the natures of languages permit us all to be storytellers, poets, and innovators, enacting the power to name what is and what is not possible. I strive for formal play and innovation in my poetics, but also narrative qualities, relying on various historical modes of storytelling and mythology through verse. I step into the U.S. multilingual field and poeticize linguistic power across borders between genres, forms, and languages.” C (c x/c [cc/x]) C/X (¡!)
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Edward A. DoughetrtyEdward A. Doughetry has two collections, Pilgrimage to a Gingko Tree (written when he was a peace volunteer in Hiroshima Japan) and Part Darkness, Part Breath. His latest chapbook (his 5th) is called Backyard Passages and it contains 4 poems, which are sequences like Roethke’s North American Sequence, which he really likes.
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changming yuanChangming Yuan, 4-time Pushcart nominee and author of Allen Qing Yuan, holds a PhD in English, teaches independently, and edits Poetry Pacific in Vancouver. Yuan’s poetry appears in 669 literary publications across 25 countries, including Asia Literary Review, Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, LiNQ, London Magazine, Paris/Atlantic, Poetry Kanto, Salzburg Review, SAND, Taj Mahal Review, Threepenny Review and Two Thirds North. Poetry submissions welcome at yuans@shaw.ca.
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James Sanders lives in Atlanta, GA. He belongs to a writing collective called the Atlanta Poets Group. His most recent book length publication is Goodbye Public and Private (BlazeVox). The group also has an anthology, An Atlanta Poets Group Anthology: The Lattice Inside, published in 2012 by the University of New Orleans Press.
He says about his pieces
The file titled “Tableaux 2″ is an untitled piece in a series of poems that collaborate with artist David D’Agostino. This is actually the second iteration: the first was a direct response to his painting, and the second was a response to D’Agostino’s response to my response. The poem is the same size as one of his paintings.
The file titled “athica epiphyte 2″ is a poem that is meant to react to another poem in real time: this piece was designed for a performance at ATHICA in summer 2012. Copies of the piece were handed out to the audience to be performed during the reading of the “Tableaux 2″ piece above. Instructions for executing the epiphyte are included in the file (the printouts are postcard size, double-sided).
He says about his pieces
The file titled “Tableaux 2″ is an untitled piece in a series of poems that collaborate with artist David D’Agostino. This is actually the second iteration: the first was a direct response to his painting, and the second was a response to D’Agostino’s response to my response. The poem is the same size as one of his paintings.
The file titled “athica epiphyte 2″ is a poem that is meant to react to another poem in real time: this piece was designed for a performance at ATHICA in summer 2012. Copies of the piece were handed out to the audience to be performed during the reading of the “Tableaux 2″ piece above. Instructions for executing the epiphyte are included in the file (the printouts are postcard size, double-sided).
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Marcia ArrietaMarcia Arrieta is a poet and artist. Her work appears in Web Conjunctions, Ellipsis, Cold Mountain Review, Osiris, BluePrint Review, Alice Blue, Ditch, Eratio, Moria, The Last VISPO Anthology, and great weather for MEDIA’s It’s Animal but Merciful. She is the author of one book of poetry, triskelion, tiger moth, tangram, thyme (Otoliths Press), and two chapbooks, experimental: (Potes & Poets Press) and the curve against the linear (Toadlily Press’s The Quartet Series—An Uncommon Accord). She edits and publishes Indefinite Space, a poetry journal.
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Athica epiphyte 2James Sanders lives in Atlanta, GA. He belongs to a writing collective called the Atlanta Poets Group. His most recent book length publication is Goodbye Public and Private (BlazeVox). The group also has an anthology, An Atlanta Poets Group Anthology: The Lattice Inside, published in 2012 by the University of New Orleans Press.
He says about his pieces The file titled “Tableaux 2″ is an untitled piece in a series of poems that collaborate with artist David D’Agostino. This is actually the second iteration: the first was a direct response to his painting, and the second was a response to D’Agostino’s response to my response. The poem is the same size as one of his paintings. The file titled “athica epiphyte 2″ is a poem that is meant to react to another poem in real time: this piece was designed for a performance at ATHICA in summer 2012. Copies of the piece were handed out to the audience to be performed during the reading of the “Tableaux 2″ piece above. Instructions for executing the epiphyte are included in the file (the printouts are postcard size, double-sided). Tableaux 2
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Joel ChaceJoel Chace has work in The Tip of the Knife, Counterexample, Poetics, OR, Country Music, Infinity’s Kitchen, Jacket and elsewhere. He has published print and electronic collections, most recently Sharpsburg, from Cy Gist Press, Blake’s Tree, from Blue & Yellow Dog Press, Whole Cloth, from Avantacular Press, Red Power, from Quarter After Press, and Black Circle, from Delete Press.
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