This past year Sylvia Ashby returned to her theatre roots, appeared in a comedy at Texas Tech, traveled to Eastern MIchigan U. to see a production of her Anne of Green Gables, then while rehearsing in a farce at her local community theatre, journeyed to Minneapolis to see a production of her Secret Garden script.
Jane Blanchard divides her time between Augusta and Saint Simon's Island, Georgia. She is looking forward to attending the Sewanee Writers' Conference again this summer. Her poetry has appeared previously in Mezzo Cammin and recently in Calamaro, The Dark Horse, The Lyric, The Rotary Dial, and U.S.1 Worksheets. Her first collection Unloosed is available from White Violet Press of Kelsay Books.
Barbara Crooker is the author of six books of poetry; Barbara Crooker: Selected Poems is the most recent. She has received a number of awards, including the 2004 WB Yeats Society of New York Award, the 2003 Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award, and three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships. Her work has appeared in a variety of literary journals, including Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania and The Bedford Introduction to Literature. She has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; the Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, France; and The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland.
Lisa DeSiro is an American writer and pianist. Her poetry has appeared in various print and online formats, including: Commonthought, Mezzo Cammin, Prodigal's Chair, Rattle, Sixfold, and Thirty Days: The Best of the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project's First Year. Poems of hers can also be heard on the albums Currents (2013) and Living in Light (forthcoming 2016). Along with an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, she has degrees from Binghamton University, Boston Conservatory, and Longy School of Music. Prior to her present employment as Production & Editorial Assistant for C.P.E. Bach: The Complete Works, she earned her living as a musician. Read more about Lisa at: thepoetpianist.wordpress.com.
Nicole Caruso Garcia's poetry has appeared in Measure, 823 on High, The Raintown Review, Antiphon, Frogpond, The HyperTexts, Sow's Ear, Soundings East, The Ledge, the anthology Mother is a Verb, and elsewhere. She is a past winner of the Willow Review Award. She lives in Connecticut, where she teaches Poetry and Creative Writing at Trumbull High School. If you liked her poems in this issue, you can seek her out in editions of the online journals Antiphon, The HyperTexts, or Mezzo Cammin.
Andrea L. Hackbarth grew up in rural Minnesota and earned her BA in English from Lawrence University, a background that influences her writing significantly. She currently lives in Palmer, Alaska, where she works as a writing tutor and is an MFA student at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Some of her recent work can be found in The Doctor TJ Eckleburg Review, Digital Americana, Flyover Country Review, and Gargoyle Magazine.
Kathryn Jacobs is a professor, poet and Managing Editor of The Road Not Taken, A Journal of Formal Poetry. Wedged Elephant, her fifth book of poetry, was published this year by Karen Kelsay Press. Previous work includes In Transit (David Roberts Books),twenty articles on everything from poetry, to Chaucer, to Shakespeare, and over two hundred individual poems in Mezzo Cammin, Measure, The New Formalist, etc.
Mina Le is a native of Minneapolis and holds a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. She is a head and neck surgeon at the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center in south Florida. Her poetry has appeared in Eureka Literary Magazine, Minnesota Medicine, Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing, and The Road Not Taken: A Journal of Formal Poetry.
Charlotte Mandel's ninth book of poetry, Through a Garden Gate with color photographs by Vincent Covello, is published by David Robert Books. Previous titles include Life Work, and two poem-novellas of feminist biblical revision—The Life of Mary and The Marriages of Jacob. Her awards include the New Jersey Poets Prize and two fellowships in poetry from New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She edited the Eileen W. Barnes Award Anthology, Saturday's Women. Critical essays include articles on the role of cinema in the life and work of H.D., as well as studies of Muriel Rukeyser, May Sarton and others. Visit her at www.charlottemandel.com.
Libby Maxey has a master's degree in Medieval Studies and works as a freelance editor. She is on staff at the online journal Literary Mama, which has also published her poetry. Other work has appeared in The Mom Egg Review, Brain of Forgetting, Off the Coast and Tule Review. Her non-literary activities include singing classical repertoire and mothering two sons.
Joan Mazza has worked as a medical microbiologist, psychotherapist, seminar leader, and has been a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Author of six self-help psychology books, including Dreaming Your Real Self, her poetry has appeared in Rattle, The MacGuffin, Mezzo Cammin, and The Nation. She ran away from the hurricanes of South Florida to be surprised by the earthquakes and tornadoes of rural central Virginia, where she writes poetry and does fabric and paper art. Her website is www.JoanMazza.com.
Susan McLean, who teaches English at Southwest Minnesota State University, has published Selected Epigrams, a collection of 503 verse translations of the satirical Latin epigrams of Martial, and The Whetstone Misses the Knife, a book that won the 2014 Donald Justice Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Valparaiso Poetry Review, The Lyric, Light, Measure, and elsewhere.
Sally Nacker's first book, Vireo, was published by Kelsay Books in February, 2015. In May, 2015, she was invited to be a featured poet on a New Books Panel at Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference in Madison, CT. This year, to give back, she hosted a New Books Panel at the same conference. Sally has been asked to give several readings with Vireo, and her book was taught by professor and author Hollis Seamon at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. She has also been asked to speak about her poetry to a literature class at Sacred Heart University. A highlight of her year was being invited to Fort Juniper in Amherst, MA by the trustee of late poet Robert Francis's estate where she enjoyed a lovely two-hour conversation. She values privacy, quiet, beauty, nature, friendship, and stillness. She resides in New England with her husband and their two cats, and works in flowers. This is her third appearance in Mezzo Cammin. Please visit her website at www.sallynacker.com.
Janice D. Soderling has published over three hundred and thirty poems, stories and translations in international journals. Recent and forthcoming work is at The Ekphrastic Review, Asses of Parnassus, Boston Literary Magazine's "Best of Antholog," The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology, and Modern Poetry in Translation. Her chapbook ms. Political Woman was honorably noted by Minerva Rising.
Myrna Stone's latest book, Luz Bones, is forthcoming from Etruscan Press in summer, 2017. Stone is the author of four previous full-length books of poetry: In the Present Tense: Portraits of My Father, a Finalist for the 2014 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; The Casanova Chronicles, a Finalist for the 2011 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; How Else to Love the World; and The Art of Loss, for which she received the 2001 Ohio Poet of the Year Award. She is the recipient of two Ohio Arts Council Fellowships in Poetry, a Full Fellowship to Vermont Studio Center, a Distinguished Entry Award in the Campbell Corner 2004 Poetry Contest, for which she received a stipend and an invitation to read at Poets House in New York City, and the 2002 Poetry Award from Weber, The Contemporary West. In 2015 Stone presented five morning lectures on Poetry as a member of the faculty of the Antioch Writers' Workshop.
Born in Arizona, Mary Temple has lived and worked in Brooklyn, New York for the past 20 years. She moved to the borough after completing her MFA in painting and drawing at Arizona State University. She then went on to study at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1999.
Mary Temple has exhibited her work throughout the US and abroad. The artist has completed commissioned projects at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF, CA; SculptureCenter, LIC, Queens, NY; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Rice Gallery, Houston, TX; Western Bridge, Seattle, WA; The Drawing Center, NY; UCSF Mission Bay Medical Center; The Bunkamura Museum, Tokyo, Japan; NYU Abu Dhabi, among many other venues. Her work has been reviewed in publications including, The New York Times, Artforum, ArtNews and Art in America. This year the artist will complete major public projects for the City of New York's Percent for Arts program, at the historic landmark site, McCarren Pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn as well as at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital's new wing, The Building for a Better Future.
You can view more work from this series and others at Temple's website: marytemple.com.
Wendy Videlock lives on the western slope of the Colorado Rockies. Her work has appeared widely, most notably in Poetry, Hudson Review, The New York Times, The New Criterion, Quadrant, and Rattle. Her books, Nevertheless, The Dark Gnu (an illustrated children's book), and Slingshots & Love Plums are published by, and available from Able Muse Press. To see more of Wendy's work please visit nutshell-wendy.blogspot.com.
Doris Watts lives in Temecula, California. She is a graduate of the University of Redlands and of San Diego State University where she completed a special major master's degree in technical communication. Her work has appeared in The Formalist, Mezzo Cammin, 14x14, Blue Unicorn, The Lyric, Autumn Sky Daily and is forthcoming in Able Muse.
Marly
Youmans is the author of thirteen books of poetry and
fiction. Her most recent books of poems are Thaliad,
an adventure in blank verse (Montreal: Phoenicia Publishing,
2012), The
Foliate Head (UK: P. S. Publishing, 2012), and The
Throne of Psyche (Mercer, 2011.) Recent novels are Maze
of Blood, Glimmerglass, and A
Death at the White Camellia Orphanage (The Ferrol Sams
Award and Silver Award, Foreword BOTYA), all Foreword BOTYA
finalists.
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| Mary Temple has lived and worked in Brooklyn, New York for the past 20 years. She moved to the borough after completing her MFA in painting and drawing at Arizona State University. She then went on to study at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1999.
Mary Temple has exhibited her work throughout the US and abroad. The artist has completed commissioned projects at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF, CA; SculptureCenter, LIC, Queens, NY; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Rice Gallery, Houston, TX; Western Bridge, Seattle, WA; The Drawing Center, NY; UCSF Mission Bay Medical Center; The Bunkamura Museum, Tokyo, Japan; NYU Abu Dhabi, among many other venues. Her work has been reviewed in publications including, The New York Times, Artforum, ArtNews and Art in America. This year the artist will complete major public projects for the City of New York's Percent for Arts program, at the historic landmark site, McCarren Pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn as well as at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital's new wing, The Building for a Better Future.
You can view more work from this series and others at Temple's website: marytemple.com.
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