Reviewed by Faye Rapoport DesPres “Words mean more than the dictionary lets on,” (p. 27) Alison Stone writes in her ninth collection, Informed (New York Quarterly Books, 2024). If any writer can back up that statement it’s Stone, whose canny
Caron Andregg holds an MS in Television/Radio/Film from The Newhouse School (Syracuse University) and an MFA in Creative Writing from San Diego State University, and has taught literature, composition and rhetoric at institutions including Penn State and San Diego State. Her poems have appeared in print and online journals including Spillway, Rattle, Poetry International, Solo and many others, and in the anthology Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems (2002) published by Southern Illinois University Press. In her non-poetic life, she runs a web design and marketing company with too much help from office cats.
Managing Editor
Catherine Campbell is a writer, editor, teacher, and art therapist residing in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Their writing has appeared in Macleans, Quill and Quire, Dovecote, Louden Singletree, and Augur Magazine, among others, and their passion for the written word has led them to work with numerous publications, filling roles from first reader, to copy editor, to editor-in-chief. Catherine holds degrees from the University of the Fraser Valley and Simon Fraser University, and is currently attending the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute. When not involved in any of the above, Catherine can be found reading, drawing, baking cakes, or getting lost in the woods.
Poetry Editor
John Bradley's most recent book of poetry is Everything in Motion, Everything at Rest, from Dos Madres Press. He is the recipient of two NEA Fellowships in Poetry. His reviews of poetry books have appeared in Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Rain Taxi, and Sulfur Surrealist Jungle. John holds degrees from the University of Minnesota, Colorado State University, and Bowling Green State University. He lives in DeKalb, Illinois, with his wife, Jana, and their cats, Kiki and Zuzu.
Poetry Editor
Ken Letko's Ken Letko's poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including California Quarterly, Earth's Daughters, Lake Effect, Rattle, and Spillway. Both the North American Review and Poetry South have nominated his poems for Pushcart awards. His book Bright Darkness was published by Flowstone Press in 2017. In 2021, Flowstone also published his sixth chapbook, Chopping Wood in the Moonlight. He lives in the redwoods of California's northernmost coastal county, where he enjoys gathering firewood and juggling.
Poetry Editor
Susan Azar Porterfield's three books of poetry include In the Garden of Our Spines, Kibbe (Mayapple Press) and Dirt, Root, Silk, which won the Cider Press Review Editor’s Prize. Individual poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, Barrow Street, EcoTheo, Mid-American Review, North American Review, Crab Orchard Review, Nimrod, Rhino, Puerto del Sol, Poetry Ireland Review, Slipstream, Room, Ambit, Magma.
Poetry Editor
Caleigh Stephens is a writer, editor, curator, and multi-disciplinary artist based in Chicago. They hold two degrees in English from the University of Chicago, with a focus on poetics and poetry translation, and have spent the past years on editorial staff at a variety of small presses and literary magazines. Caleigh's writing can be found in ZYZZYVA, South Side Weekly,Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism, Common Forms, and Hyde Park Herald.