Jennifer Scappettone is the author of From Dame Quickly
(Litmus Press, 2009), and of several
chapbooks: Ode oggettuale, a bilingual poemetto translated
into Italian with Marco Giovenale (La Camera Verde, 2008);
Err-Residence (Bronze Skull, 2007); and Beauty [Is the New
Absurdity] (dusi/e kollectiv, 2008). She is at work on a
manuscript called Exit 43, an archaeology of the landfill and
opera of pop-ups, for Atelos. She was guest editor of Aufgabe 7,
devoted to contemporary Italian poetry of research. She is an
assistant professor at the University of Chicago.
Allison Benis White is the author of Self-Portrait with Crayon, winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, and Pleiades, among other journals. She is currently at work on a second manuscript, Small Porcelain Head, which received the 2008 James D. Phelan Award for a work-in-progress from The San Francisco Foundation. She teaches at the University of California, Irvine.
Waiting
I think of broken snow, but this is permanent. Two separate women on a bench—crossed at the wrists,
Jessica Bozek received an MFA from the University of Georgia and an MA from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London. She is the author of cor·re·spond·ence (dusi/e-chap kollektiv), a collaboration with Eli Queen. She has lived in Russia, England, Spain, and Costa Rica but currently walks the dog in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Bodyfeel Lexicon was published by Switchback Books, 2009.
The Stationer's Transport
through panes and across sheets, perception yields
Elise Paschen is the author of Bestiary (Red Hen Press, 2009), as well as Infidelities, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, and Houses: Coasts. Her poems have been published in The New Republic, TriQuarterly and The Hudson Review, among other magazines, and in numerous anthologies. The editor of Poetry Speaks to Children and co-editor of Poetry Speaks and Poetry in Motion, Paschen teaches in the Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Wí'-gi-e
Anna Kyle Brown. Osage.
1896-1921. Fairfax, Oklahoma.
Because she died where the ravine falls into water.
