Vol 4 No 3 FALL 2011


POETRY

60
Owen Lucas

Wildwood
Shelley Wong

Bit by Bit
KG Newman

B.Y.O.B.
Yvette Johnson

Farm in Storm
Andrew Payton

Big Black Lonesome
Elizabeth Savage

In Sevilla
Vanessa Blakeslee

A Hill, A Cold Can, A White Dog
Shenan Hahn

Happy Second (, April Leigh.)
Lindsay Reid

Plankton
Doug Bolling

 

REVIEWS

Review: "Poems Against War: Bending Toward Justice"
Elisabeth Asher

Review: "The Pottawatomie Giant"
Abigail Yeager

Review: "Words We Might One Day Say"
Janelle Kihlstrom

Review: "Back Tuck"
Leila Emery

 

Elisabeth Asher

Elisabeth Asher is currently a junior at Oberlin College, where she is double majoring in English and Creative Writing. She works as an editor at the school's art and literary magazine, the Plum Creek Review, and writes poems about seasonal fruits and text messages.

 

Vanessa Blakeslee

Vanessa Blakeslee's work has been recognized by grants and fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Yaddo, the Ragdale Foundation and the United Arts of Central Florida, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Harpur Palate, The Bellingham Review, Green Mountains Review, and The Southern Review, among other journals. She was a finalist for the 2011 Philip Roth Residency at Bucknell University and the Sozopol Fiction Seminars. Please visit www.vanessablakeslee.com for more.

 

Doug Bolling

Doug Bolling has published poems in many literary journals, including Georgetown Review, Slant, Laughing Dog, Red Wheelbarrow, Indefinite Space, Marginalia, Heeltap, The Broome Review, Trajectory, and Blueline, among others. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has recently published a new chapbook.

 

Rob Chester

Rob Chester, who provided the homepage artwork for this issue of Lines + Stars, is a painter and graphic designer living in Washington, DC. You can see more of his work at www.robchester.com.

 

Leila Emery

Originally from Massachusetts, Leila Emery received her BA in Comparative Literature from Smith College, and her MA in Writing from the Johns Hopkins University. Her poetry has appeared in Abbey, 95Notes, Survivor's Review, Advocate, and poetryfish, and is forthcoming in 24/7: A Caregiving Anthology.

 

Shenan Hahn

Shenan Hahn is a defense research analyst by day and poet by night. She holds a MA in writing from Johns Hopkins University and is one of the founding editors of Magic Lantern Review (first issue forthcoming Fall 2011). Her work has appeared most recently in literary journals such as Slow Trains and PigeonBike. She lives in Arlington, Virginia with her husband and two cats.

 

Yvette Johnson

Yvette Johnson was selected as a Newer Poet by the Los Angeles Poetry Festival and Beyond Baroque. She is the author of three chapbooks. Many of her poems can be found online, and she has poems forthcoming in Octopus and Bateau.

 

Janelle Kihlstrom

Janelle Elyse Kihlstrom lives just outside of Washington, DC, where she received a MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University in 2008. Her poems and book reviews have appeared in several journals, including Gargoyle and Arsenic Lobster. Her chapbook, Blue Trajectory, is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press this fall. She edits the online journal Melusine.

 

Owen Lucas

Owen Lucas is from Cambridgeshire, England. He began writing while living in south-east London and has read his poems in Mayfair, Camden, New Cross, Camberwell and Peckham. He has previously been published in Psychic Meatloaf, Third Wednesday and Petrichor Machine. For more, see owenlucaspoems.blogspot.com.

 

KG Newman

KG Newman is currently a junior at Arizona State University, where he is double majoring in print journalism and creative writing. He is a sports columnist for the ASU State Press and also writes for AZ Front Row Magazine. His inspiration to write poetry comes from our national pastime, the debauchery of college life and his incurable case of hopeless romanticism.

 

Andrew Payton

An MFA candidate at Iowa State University and a native of Maryland, Andrew Payton's work is published in current or forthcoming issues of dislocate, Caveat Lector, Yemassee, and Mixed Fruit.

 

Lindsay Reid

Lindsay Reid is a Rutgers University French student. Her poetic fixations of late are home videos, her troop of sisters, and the volatile psyche of Fox 5 NY anchor and fireworks advocate Greg Kelly. Her work was published earlier this summer in LEVELER.

 

Elizabeth Savage

Elizabeth Savage is poetry editor for Kestrel: A Journal of Literature & Art. Her chapbook, Jane & Paige or Sister Goose, and a full-length book entitled Grammar will be published by Furniture Press Books this year. Her poems appear in recent issues of Court Green, No Tell Motel, Wallace Stevens Journal, and Weave.

 

Shelley Wong

Shelley Wong was born in Long Beach, California and is currently an MFA candidate at the Ohio State University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Hat, Eleven Eleven, Kartika Review, and Flyway.

 

Abigail Yeager

Abigail Yeager is a former editorial intern at Lines + Stars. She recently graduated from Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland with a degree in English and a concentration in Professional Writing. She has had previous experience with several student publications and her hometown newspaper. She has plans to work as a book editor.

 
 
   
 
   
 
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