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was raised on the challenging streets of Hartford, Connecticut, and now lives as a “from–away” resident of Portland, Maine with his

works as a Speech–Language Pathologist in Magdalena, New Mexico, where he makes his home. His most recent book of poetry is Wayward Shadow

has recently completed an MFA at the University of Illinois (Urbana–Champaign) where he served as assistant poetry editor at the Ninth

won the Poetry Society of Virginia’s premier prize, the Edgar Allen Poe Memorial in 2013 and again in 2014. He won the University of Tennessee

his work has appeared in the anthologies American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon), Place of Passage: Contemporary Catholic Poetry

his latest book is Church of the Adagio and his previous book, Gimme Five, won the 2012 Blue Light Press Award. He appears in Scribner’s Best

has her MFA from University of Southern Maine–Stonecoast. She most recently placed poems in Cider Press Review and Apalachee Review. In

is a Maine Native and a recent graduate from College of The Atlantic. She works seasonally in Bar Harbor and spends her free time traveling and

his poetry has appeared in Image, Callaloo, Prairie Fire, and Grain Magazine, among other journals. New work is forthcoming in the Texas Review

is a poet and high school English teacher. Her poems have appeared in The 2008 Poets Guide to New Hampshire, Currents V: Seacoast Writers