Author: Scott LaClaire

on Certain Relevant Passages by Joe Manning

By Mike Good
From the Winter 2017 Issue
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Mike Good’s recent writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in Sugar House Review, Salamander, Forklift, OH, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from Hollins University, helps edit the After Happy Hour Review, and lives in Pittsburgh, where he works as a grant writer.

on 3 Nations Anthology: Native, Canadian & New England Writers, edited by Valerie Lawson

By Ellen Sander
From the Winter 2017 Issue
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Ellen Sander, a New York rock journalist and author of Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties (1973), was the poet laureate of Belfast, Maine, in 2013 and 2014. Her short collection, Hawthorne, a House in Bolinas, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2017, and her poetry has been published in journals including the Maine Review, Oculus Vox, Fredericksberg Literary and Art Review, and the American Journal of Poetry.

Seeking Refuge

By Anjali Enjeti
From the Winter 2017 Issue

When the body of three-year-old Alan Kurdi washed up onto the shore of Bodrum, Turkey, in September 2015, the photograph of him went viral, sending a shockwave through a part of the world that, until then, had largely ignored the …

Anjali Enjeti serves as vice president of the National Book Critics Circle. Her work has most recently appeared in Newsday, The Nation, the Atlanta Journal–Constitution, and elsewhere. She teaches creative nonfiction in the MFA program at Reinhardt University, and her own debut book, a collection of essays about identity, is forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press.

Anonymous Relatives in the Aluminum Garden

By Toshihiko Mitsuya
From the Winter 2017 Issue

In 1913, Americans found their first use for aluminum foil: creating identification leg bands for valuable racing and messenger pigeons. Later, when those same birds had bred freely to become an urban nuisance, people realized they could scare them away …

Toshihiko Mitsuya (b. 1979) lives and works in Germany and Japan. He is a 2004 graduate of the Seian University of Art and Design in Otsu, Japan, and his installations and sculptures have shown at numerous venues, including the Sexauer Gallery in Berlin; the Historic Castle Lieberose in Spreewald, Germany; the HUMO Gallery in Zurich, Switzerland; and the Takasaki City Gallery in Gunma, Japan.

 

Two Stories

By Kevin Clark
From the Winter 2017 Issue
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Kevin Clark

Kevin Clark’s several books of poems include the forthcoming The Consecrations (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2021). His first collection, In the Evening of No Warning (New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2002), earned a grant from the Academy of American Poets, and his second, Self-Portrait with Expletives (2010), won the Pleiades Press prize. His poetry appears in the Southern Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, Gulf Coast, and Crazyhorse. A regular critic for The Georgia Review, he’s also published essays in the Southern Review, Papers on Language and Literature, and Contemporary Literary Criticism. He teaches at the Rainier Writing Workshop. 

Love in the Time of PrEP

By Jacques J. Rancourt
From the Winter 2017 Issue

 

To see more clearly,

             we climbed the shifting sands

                             of the volcano. We read

in the guidebook that we might

             be haunted if the mist & the light

 

were just right. Sure enough,

             a rainbow haloed my head’s

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Jacques J. Rancourt

Jacques J. Rancourt

Jacques J. Rancourt is the author of Novena, winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd prize (Pleiades Press, 2017), and In the Time of PrEP (Beloit Poetry Journal, 2018). He has held poetry fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Best New Poets 2014, among others. He lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

Reading a Poetry Magazine on the Train

By Alfred Corn
From the Winter 2017 Issue
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Alfred Corn’s most recent book of poems is Unions (Barrow Street Press, 2014), and his most recent novel, Miranda’s Book (Eyewear Publishing), was released the same year. In November 2017 he was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame.

The Unwritten Laws of Gravitational Isolation in Warren, Michigan

By Jim Daniels
From the Winter 2017 Issue
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Jim Daniels is the author of numerous poetry books, including the forthcoming The Middle Ages (Red Mountain Press, 2018), Rowling Inland (Wayne State University Press, 2017), and Street Calligraphy (Steel Toe Books, 2017). A native of Detroit, Daniels is the Thomas Stockham Baker University Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University.

Dream Dreams

By Edward Wilson
From the Winter 2017 Issue
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Edward Wilson’s poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Georgia Review, the Midwest Quarterly, Poetry, Southern Poetry Review, the South Carolina Review, and others. His awards include an individual artist fellowship from the state of Georgia, a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He lives in Augusta, Georgia.