Art Inspiring Poetry
There’s a long tradition of poetry responding to visual art (and vice versa), and we thought it would be fun to post a challenge. For the first, Judy Keown, cover artist from issue #45, donated a photograph of an argiope spider. We gave poets a month to respond to this photograph in verse, and received 266 entries. Judy Keown and Rattle’s Timothy Green each selected their favorite poem from the submissions and published them online at Rattle.com.
Given how many people seemed to enjoy the Ekphrastic Challenge, we’ve decided to make it a monthly series, using open submissions of artwork when necessary. Visual artists who would like to participate can submit work now through the end of December, by going here.
If you’re a poet, come back to this page every month to find a new piece of art to inspire your poetry. You’ll have one month to write and submit your poems. Each month, two winners—one chosen by the artist and the other by Rattle’s editor—will receive online publication and $100 each.
For the month of April, our image is the piece below by Gerrie Paino. Find more of the artist’s work on Instagram, but only write your poems about the image below.
Submission Deadline:
April 30th
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Previous Winners
February 2024 – Christine Crockett’s “Graphing Uncertainty V”
Artist’s Choice:
“Things That Collapse”
Jonathan Harris
Editor’s Choice:
“Shoulder MRI”
Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco
January 2024 – G.J. Gillespie’s “Desperado”
Artist’s Choice:
“Emergence”
Chris Kaiser
Editor’s Choice:
“Portrait of My Father as the Count of Monte Cristo”
Joanna Preston
December 2023 – Jeanne Wilkinson’s “Cold Sun”
Artist’s Choice:
“Curriculum Vitae”
Dante Di Stefano
Editor’s Choice:
“Watch This!”
Tristan Roth
November 2023 – Scott Wiggerman’s “Aerial II”
Artist’s Choice:
“Flying Back to England That First Time”
Rose Lennard
Editor’s Choice:
“(Sub)Division”
Christine Crockett
October 2023 – Arthur Lawrence’s “Shadowland”
Artist’s Choice:
“The Addiction Bird”
Agnes Hanying Ong
Editor’s Choice:
“Pilgrims of the Mound”
Conal Abatangelo
September 2023 – Carla Paton’s “Yellow Flowers”
Artist’s Choice:
“For a Robot”
Alison Bailey
Editor’s Choice:
“The Rote Stuff”
Gary Glauber
August 2023 – Lily Prigioniero’s “Seamstress”
Artist’s Choice:
“My Wife, Sewing at a Window”
Eithne Longstaff
Editor’s Choice:
“To the Child Watching His Grandmother Sew”
Bradford Kimball
July 2023 – Elizabeth Hlookoff’s “Here I Go”
Artist’s Choice:
“Fighting the Wind”
Teresa Breeden
Editor’s Choice:
“Aphorisms Thrown into the Eye of the Blizzard”
Tamara Raidt
June 2023 – Judith Fox’s “Untold Stories”
Artist’s Choice:
“Girl Is Glued to Door”
William Ross
Editor’s Choice:
“Image of a Woman Along a Sidewalk”
Jason Brunner
May 2023 – Carmella Dolmer’s “A Lonesome Border”
Editor’s Choice:
“What the Astrologer Failed to See in Our Stars”
Dick Westheimer
Associate Editor’s Choice:
“You Don’t Have to Choose”
Beth Copeland
April 2023 – Lou Storey’s “All of Us”
Artist’s Choice:
“Sestina”
Amanda Quaid
Editor’s Choice:
“The World Beneath”
Devon Balwit
March 2023 – G.G. Silverman’s “Lighthouse at the Edge of the World”
Artist’s Choice:
“I Asked the Chatbot to Write about a Lighthouse, but It Generated Lies”
Pamela Lucinda Moss
Editor’s Choice:
“Selah”
Kristene Kaye Brown
February 2023 – JoAnne Tucker’s “The Kitchen Goddess”
Artist’s Choice:
“The Rebirth of Venus”
Luisa Giulianetti
Editor’s Choice:
“Joy”
Melissa Madenski
January 2023 – Susan MacMurdy’s “Dream House, Later”
Artist’s Choice:
“Devotion”
Brianna Locke
Editor’s Choice:
“Cut Out”
Sandra Nelson
December 2022 – J. Stormer’s “Unsatisfied Externals”
Artist’s Choice:
“The Room as We See It”
Andrew Payton
Editor’s Choice:
“Resolution of Memory”
Sara Dallmayr
November 2022 – Joshua Eric Williams’ “Humid”
Artist’s Choice:
“Old Testament Family Tree”
Kid Kassidy
Editor’s Choice:
“In a Moment”
J. A. Lagana
October 2022 – René Bohnen’s “Ballet Above the Bay”
Artist’s Choice:
“Fault Lines”
Margaret Malochleb
Editor’s Choice:
“Wingspan”
Christopher Shipman
September 2022 – Bonnie Riedinger’s “Take Heart”
Artist’s Choice:
“Morning Glory”
Dion O’Reilly
Editor’s Choice:
“Fibers”
Ashley Caspermeyer
August 2022 – Enne Tess’s “Worm”
Artist’s Choice:
“Identity Politics”
Drea
Editor’s Choice:
“Haute Buttons”
Kenton K. Yee
July 2022 – Jaundré van Breda’s “Blueprint of a Dream”
Artist’s Choice:
“Balancing Act”
Ajay Kumar
Editor’s Choice:
“Driving in the Rain”
Christopher Shipman
June 2022 – M-A Murphy’s “Kennedy Lake”
Artist’s Choice:
“June 24, 2022”
Sarah Russell
Editor’s Choice:
“Poem with a Cloud and Frank Ocean Lyrics”
José Felipe Ozuna
May 2022 – Danelle Rivas’s “El Camino de Esmeralda”
Artist’s Choice:
“Camouflage”
Katie Kemple
Editor’s Choice:
“Laparoscopy, or a Half-Birth”
Gabriella Graceffo
April 2022 – Greg Clary’s “Truck Stop Shell”
Artist’s Choice:
“The Next Time”
Byron Hoot
Editor’s Choice:
“Broken Places by Daylight”
Sandra Kasturi
March 2022 – Natascha Graham’s “Anonymous Was a Woman”
Assistant Editor’s Choice:
“Her Vanity”
Marc Alan Di Martino
Editor’s Choice:
“Angular Bones”
Jeanie Tomasko
February 2022 – Sarah-Jane Crowson’s “Diaphona”
Artist’s Choice:
“Homemaker”
Mary Meriam
Editor’s Choice:
“My Animal Understudy Replaced Me in the School Production of The Tempest”
Luigi Coppola
January 2022 – Matthew King’s “Dark Figures”
Artist’s Choice:
“Emotional Self-Regulation with Birds and Gifted Child”
Sean Kelbley
Editor’s Choice:
“Why I Love That We’re Not Gods”
Sean Keck
December 2021 – Bruce McClain’s “Nature People #8”
Artist’s Choice:
“Last Reach”
Wendell Smith
Editor’s Choice:
“The Widower”
Nick Bertelson
November 2021 – Shannon Jackson’s “Easy Like Sunday Morning”
Artist’s Choice:
“This Room”
Devon Balwit
Editor’s Choice:
“Study Abroad”
Cassie Burkhardt
October 2021 – Gouri Prakash’s “Family”
Artist’s Choice:
“Grief”
Susan Carroll Jewell
Editor’s Choice:
“On Getting Your Ducks in a Row”
Matthew King
September 2021 – Rachel Slotnick’s “The Blood in the Veins”
Artist’s Choice:
“Revelations”
Sean Wang
Editor’s Choice:
“Like Dust”
Ian Opolski
August 2021 – Emily Rankin’s “Rosetta Stone”
Artist’s Choice:
“Oracle”
Robert E. Ray
Editor’s Choice:
“Griefsong Heard at Sea”
Shannon Mann
July 2021 – Lynn Tait’s “Waste”
Artist’s Choice:
“Self-Doubt”
Tamara Raidt
Editor’s Choice:
“Aloft”
Heidi Williamson
June 2021 – Annie Kuhn’s “Sunline”
Artist’s Choice:
“Color / Off-Color”
Emily Pease
Editor’s Choice:
“Learning to Swim”
C.J. Farnsworth
May 2021 – Neena Sethia’s “Contradictions of Being”
Artist’s Choice:
“Gods, Monsters, and Complex PTSD”
Elizabeth Train-Brown
Editor’s Choice:
“What It Is Is What It Is Not and What It Is Not Is What It Is”
Karan Kapoor
April 2021 – Jojo’s “While Thinking About Snow and Ice”
Artist’s Choice:
“A Short Poem About Many Things”
Lynn Robertson
Editor’s Choice:
“White Spots”
Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco
March 2021 – Susy Kamber’s “Into Thee”
Artist’s Choice:
“Supernatural”
Laura Theis
Editor’s Choice:
“Darling”
Jonathan Langley
February 2021 – Claire Ibarra’s “Cloud Dance”
Artist’s Choice:
“Faces in the Clouds”
Devon Balwit
Editor’s Choice:
“Telling It Through a Broken Lens”
Bola Opaleke
January 2021 – Danny Masks’s “Bucket”
Artist’s Choice:
“Call Me Boy on Saturdays”
Jackson Jesse Nash
Editor’s Choice:
“Bound for Glory”
Melissa McKinstry
December 2020 – Dominique Dève’s “A Horizon Is Vague at a Distance”
Artist’s Choice:
“Wilhelmina”
Kyle Potvin
Editor’s Choice:
“A Horizon Is Vague at a Distance”
Martin Willitts Jr.
November 2020 – Kim Sosin’s “Leaping Crane”
Artist’s Choice:
“Crane Possibly Walking on Water”
Erin Newton Wells
Editor’s Choice:
“Birdwoman”
Lexi Pelle
October 2020 – Christopher Whitney’s “Dream Spirit”
Artist’s Choice:
“One for Sorrow”
Carmel Buckingham
Editor’s Choice:
“Four Loaves of Stone, Ascending”
Joel Vega
September 2020 – Pat Singer’s “Pool Head”
Artist’s Choice:
“Visiting the Gardens at DePugh Nursing Center, Winter Park Florida”
Vivian Shipley
Editor’s Choice:
“In the Dream-Pool”
Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco
August 2020 – Liz Magee’s “Blue Bowl”
Artist’s Choice:
“Mantra”
Michael Harty
Editor’s Choice:
“A Duty to Look Beautiful”
Patty Holloway
July 2020 – Aurore Uwase Munyabera’s “Conflict Resolution”
Artist’s Choice:
“Stepfather”
Anna Cianciolo
Editor’s Choice:
“Circles”
Nikita Parik
June 2020 – Denise Sedor’s “The Old Paper Mill”
Artist’s Choice:
“Eulogy”
Brenda Lee Ranta
Editor’s Choice:
“Upstate”
Marc Alan Di Martino
May 2020 – Megan Merchant’s “Shadowplay”
Artist’s Choice:
“Copulations”
Marjorie Thomsen
Editor’s Choice:
“There Are Two of Us”
Vasvi Kejriwal
April 2020 – Laura R. McCullough’s “Mund”
Artist’s Choice:
“The Larger Half”
Eric Kilpatrick
Editor’s Choice:
“Presidential Fitness Test”
Bill Hollands
March 2020 – Kenneth Borg’s “Cour des Voraces”
Artist’s Choice:
“Vast Silence”
Sally Cobau
Editor’s Choice:
“Rain” (haiku)
Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco
February 2020 – Marc Alan Di Martino’s “Indietro”
Artist’s Choice:
“They Tried to Cover Her Up”
Stephanie Shlachtman
Editor’s Choice:
“When Peeled Back”
Mary Ann Honaker
January 2020 – Kate Peper’s “Open All Night”
Artist’s Choice:
“An Index of Visitors”
Ajay Kumar
Editor’s Choice:
“Cheer”
Sean Kelbley
December 2019 – Natalie Seabold’s “Bound”
Artist’s Choice:
“Greetings Unanswered”
Joshua Martin
Editor’s Choice:
“Seeking Purpose”
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
November 2019 – Alice Pettway’s “Dog Walking”
Artist’s Choice:
“The Anatomy of Endings”
Anoushka Subbaiah
Editor’s Choice:
“A Caricature”
Bola Opaleke
October 2019 – Dana St. Mary’s “Brainyo”
Artist’s Choice:
“The Metamorphosis of Gregor Samsa”
Jaime Mera
Editor’s Choice:
“After the Extinction”
Susan Carroll Jewell
September 2019 – Asher ReTech’s “Loss for Words”
Artist’s Choice:
“Artifacts from the Buffalo Trunk Mfg. Co. (Defunct)”
Rachel Welton
Editor’s Choice:
“Budget Cuts”
Danny Eisenberg
August 2019 – Kim Tedrow’s “Thai Bees”
Artist’s Choice:
“Misinterpreting a Collage During Trump’s Presidency”
Jaime Mera
Editor’s Choice:
“Bee Sting in the Eye”
James Valvis
July 2019 – B.A. Van Sise’s “Restricted | U.S. Air Force”
Artist’s Choice:
“Time Travel”
Alida Rol
Editor’s Choice:
“Naming the Beasts”
Elizabeth Morton
June 2019 – Nikki Zarate’s “Blue Whale”
Artist’s Choice:
“Ink Blots”
Matt Quinn
Editor’s Choice:
“Kenai”
Katherine Fallon
May 2019 – Ellen McCarthy’s “Desert Road”
Artist’s Choice:
“The Years We Lived in the Desert”
Megan Merchant
Editor’s Choice:
“The Optimist”
Emily Sperber
April 2019 – Denise Zygadlo’s “Kandinsky’s Slippers”
Artist’s Choice:
“In the Nostalgia Chair”
Matthew Murrey
Editor’s Choice:
“Art Therapy”
Aaric Tan Xiang Yeow
March 2019 – Betsy Mars’s “Floating”
Artist’s Choice:
“Trompe L’oeil”
Juliet Latham
Editor’s Choice:
“Living in Space After a Break-Up”
Jaime Mera
February 2019 – Justin Hamm’s “Work Gloves”
Artist’s Choice:
“Tan Hides and Hard Stuff”
Lisha Nasipak
Editor’s Choice:
“Sometimes a Man Has to Get His Hands Dirty”
Alexandre Mikano
January 2019 – Vasu Tolia’s “Belle of the Ball”
Artist’s Choice:
“Self-Portrait”
Rodrigo Dela Pena
Editor’s Choice:
“My Mother Was a Dancer and She Never Looked Back”
Luigi Coppola
December 2018 – Kari Gunter-Seymour’s “Untitled”
Artist’s Choice:
“Substance”
Peg Duthie
Editor’s Choice:
“Shell Thick and Her Own Planet”
Angie Mason
November 2018 – Nicolette Daskalakis’s “Eat Me”
Artist’s Choice:
“Placebo”
Jill M. Talbot
Editor’s Choice:
“The Happy Game”
Sean Kelbley
October 2018 – Courtney Carroll’s “Hanging Collage”
Artist’s Choice:
“What Is Not Lost”
Sharon Cote
Editor’s Choice:
“Locked Brakes on Blacktop”
Guinotte Wise
September 2018 – Karen Kraco’s “Back of the Beach”
Artist’s Choice:
“Beer, Buoy, Boat, Board”
Devon Balwit
Editor’s Choice:
“The Happy Meditator”
Katherine Huang
August 2018 – Alexis Rhone Fancher’s “Waiting”
Artist’s Choice:
“That Bit Me”
Matthew Murrey
Editor’s Choice:
“Sonnet for the Night Shift”
Kim Harvey
July 2018 – Bryan DeLae’s “What Once Was”
Artist’s Choice:
“Relic”
Ginny Lowe Connors
Editor’s Choice:
“Grave of a Tourist’s Trap”
Hannah V. Norman
June 2018 – Gretchen Rockwell’s “The Sound of Wings”
Artist’s Choice:
“The Shape of Your Elbow”
Jack McGavick
Editor’s Choice:
“Love Poem to My Wife, with Pigeons”
James Valvis
May 2018 – Jen Ninnis’s “Message in a Bottle”
Artist’s Choice:
“Starfish”
Michael Strand
Editor’s Choice:
“Dispatch from an Inland University”
Jen Jabaily-Blackburn
April 2018 – Melody Carr’s “Through the Looking Glass”
Artist’s Choice:
“Facial Recognition”
Janice Zerfas
Editor’s Choice:
“Your Favorite Writer Is Not Your Mother”
Jill M. Talbot
March 2018 – Marion Clarke’s “Chickens!”
Artist’s Choice:
“Wildflowers”
Paul T. Corrigan
Editor’s Choice:
“The Visitant”
Marietta McGregor
February 2018 – Jeff Doleman’s “Nine Lives”
Artist’s Choice:
“Cobalt Blue”
Christine Michel
Editor’s Choice:
“Bright Blue Muscle Car”
Mike Good
January 2018 – Laura Christensen’s “Muse”
Artist’s Choice:
“Half of Everything”
James Valvis
Editor’s Choice:
“Getting Sober”
James Croal Jackson
December 2017 – Barbara Graff’s “Cinderella Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”
Artist’s Choice:
“Cinderella Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”
Devon Balwit
Editor’s Choice:
“Here, She Said”
Chris Ransick
November 2017 – Phyllis Meredith’s “Wind-Blown Meadow”
Artist’s Choice:
“Young Medusa in the Fall”
J.P. Dancing Bear
Editor’s Choice:
“Surf Days”
Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco
October 2017 – Robb Shaffer’s “Biltmore Backyard”
Artist’s Choice:
“You Moved Your Whole Town”
Paul T. Corrigan
Editor’s Choice:
“A Season of Bricks”
Simon Costello
September 2017 – Jody Kennedy’s “Agnes Was Here”
Artist’s Choice:
“Saved or Spared”
Devon Balwit
Editor’s Choice:
“Sonnet for the Hole in the Glass”
Zoë Brigley Thompson
August 2017 – Jennifer O’Neill Pickering’s “Street Folks”
Artist’s Choice:
“Trajectory”
Ann Giard-Chase
Editor’s Choice:
“Mint in Pots”
Ann Wuehler
July 2017 – Samantha Gee’s “Portrait of a Kitchen”
Artist’s Choice:
“My First Body Is Beautiful Until”
Reese Conner
Editor’s Choice:
“After Cleaning the Kitchen Again, He Realizes”
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
June 2017 – Ryan Schaufler’s “No Name #2”
Artist’s Choice:
“Blue Rain Clouds, Reddish Ground, and Tall Crosses”
Jose Rizal Reyes
Editor’s Choice:
“A Thousand Possible Clouds”
Valentina Gnup
May 2017 – Soren James’ “Pink Bird Corridor”
Artist’s Choice:
“Birds of a Feather”
Lianne Kamp
Editor’s Choice:
“She Tells Him of Her Fears”
Priyam Goswami Choudhury
April 2017 – Laura Jensen’s “And the Wolf”
Artist’s Choice:
“The Woman and the Wolf”
Melissa Fite Johnson
Editor’s Choice:
“Coyote”
Suzanne Langlois
March 2017 – Lisa Ortega’s “La Familia”
Artist’s Choice:
“Chanclas, Find Our Ground”
Gloria Amescua
Editor’s Choice:
“Modern American Gothic”
Stephen Harvey
February 2017 – Debbie McAfee’s “Hwy 41”
Artist’s Choice:
“Tanka (Lonely Highway)”
Tracy Davidson
Editor’s Choice:
“Threading North and South”
Matthew Murrey
January 2017 – Harry Wilson’s “Days in San Francisco #1, 1984”
Artist’s Choice:
“A Town of Mirrors and Quaking Forty-Fours”
Richard Manly Heiman
Editor’s Choice:
“An Accounting”
Joanna Preston
December 2016 – Chelsea Welsh’s “Caught in the Days Unraveling”
Artist’s Choice:
“Menarche”
Melina Papadopoulos
Editor’s Choice:
“Haiku”
Elizabeth McMunn-Tetango
November 2016 – Arushi Raj’s “Light”
Artist’s Choice:
“The Surface of Light”
Martin Willitts Jr.
Editor’s Choice:
“Illuminated”
Sherry Barker Abaldo
October 2016 – Alexandra de Kempf’s “Family Matters”
Artist’s Choice:
“PTSD”
Bill Glose
Editor’s Choice:
“Nuclear Family Warfare”
Jane Noel Dabate
September 2016 – Ilenia Pezzaniti’s “They All Slept Here”
Artist’s Choice:
“Calendario”
Devon Balwit
Editor’s Choice:
“HotelReview.com – Stay Where You Are, Which Is Here!”
T.J. Peters
August 2016 – Heshani Sothiraj Eddleston’s “Clay Hands”
Artist’s Choice:
“What We Keep in Clay”
Hannah Siobhan
Editor’s Choice:
“Throwback at the Art Show”
Carol Kanter
July 2016 – Suzanne Simmons’ “Trespass”
Artist’s Choice:
“Eco Echo: An Oldster’s Tale”
Devon Balwit
Editor’s Choice:
“Memoria”
Merlin Ural Rivera
June 2016 – James Croal Jackson’s “Go Your Own Way”
Artist’s Choice:
“I Don’t Understand Poetry”
Jill M. Talbot
Editor’s Choice:
“The Climb”
Jeffrey Bean
May 2016 – Catherine Edmund’s “Castlerigg”
Artist’s Choice:
“Underneath a Car on the Highroad …”
Alexander James
Editor’s Choice:
“Alone in Love”
Mary Meriam
April 2016 – Robert Dash’s “Into the Mystic”
Artist’s Choice:
“Invisible”
Ann Giard-Chase
Editor’s Choice:
“[Here, said the ocean]”
Rodrigo Dela Peña, Jr.
March 2016 – Thomas Terceira’s “Metamorphosis 2”
Artist’s Choice:
“To Lose and Catch the Trail”
Claire Kruesel
Editor’s Choice:
“The Balcony Collapses and I Become a Bird”
Rebecca Valley
February 2016 – Dave Thewlis’s “Met”
Artist’s Choice:
“There, in Folded Space, We Must Have Met”
Rommel Chrisden Samarita
Editor’s Choice:
“In the Museum of Cold Ideas”
Ginny Lowe Connors
January 2016 – Ruth Bavetta’s “Chonicle”
Artist’s Choice:
“It Won’t Make the News”
Rosemerry Trommer
Editor’s Choice:
“Anatomy of a Fustercluck”
Stephanie L. Harper
December 2015 – Colleen McLaughlin’s “Contrail”
Artist’s Choice:
“Untitled”
Angela Johnson
Editor’s Choice:
“Contrails”
D.R. James
November 2015 – Megan Tutolo’s “City Night”
Artist’s Choice:
“Map to the Moon”
Matthew Murrey
Editor’s Choice:
“Divining”
Rosemerry Trommer
October 2015 – Ana Prundaru’s “Beach”
Artist’s Choice:
“Kamakura Beach, 1333”
Mary Kendall
Editor’s Choice:
“The View from the Café”
Matt Quinn
September 2015 – Sarah Oyetunde’s “Moon”
Artist’s Choice:
“Sister Moon”
Jane Williams
Editor’s Choice:
“Things You Cannot Answer”
Margaret Donsbach Tomlinson
August 2015 – Howard R. Debs’ “Ice House”
Artist’s Choice:
“Ice House”
Ann Giard-Chase
Editor’s Choice:
“Offering”
Arnold Perrin
July 2015 – Aparna Pathak’s “Goats”
Artist’s Choice:
“Ram Tested at Mount Vert”
Grant Quackenbush
Editor’s Choice:
“Cruelest of All Are the Gods Who Never Frown”
Michael Meyerhofer
June 2015 – Alisa Golden’s “Bench”
Artist’s Choice:
“People of the Megabus”
Justin Barisich
Editor’s Choice:
“Route 9”
Martin Willitts, Jr.
May 2015 – Åsa Antalffy Eriksson’s “Forest”
Artist’s Choice:
“Teeny Tiny”
Matthew Murrey
Editor’s Choice:
“Abduction”
Kate Gaskin
Spring 2015 – Gail Goepfert’s “Friendship Flowers”
Artist’s Choice:
“Potpourri”
Liz N. Clift
Editor’s Choice:
“Location’s Everything”
Steven Dondlinger
. . .
Winter 2014 – James Bernal’s “Mysterious Figure”
Artist’s Choice:
“Clean White Sheets”
M
Editor’s Choice:
“Carelessness”
Michael Hallock
. . .
Fall 2014 – Judy Keown’s “Argiope Spider”
Artist’s Choice:
“The Writing Spider”
Paula Schulz
Editor’s Choice:
“The Writing Spider (Haiku)”
Caroline Giles Banks
Winner of the 2020 Rattle Chapbook Prize for A Juror Must Fold in on Herself, Kathleen McClung is also the author of Temporary Kin, The Typists Play Monopoly, and Almost the Rowboat. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, she is the winner of the Rita Dove, Morton Marr, Shirley McClure, and Maria W. Faust national poetry prizes. Her work appears widely in journals and anthologies, including Fire & Rain: Ecopoetry of California, Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace, Atlanta Review, Connecticut River Review, Southwest Review, and others. Kathleen lives in San Francisco and teaches at The Writing Salon and Skyline College, where she served for ten years as director of the annual Women on Writing conference. She is associate director and sonnet judge for the Soul-Making Keats literary competition. In 2018-19 she was a writer-in-residence at Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. For more information, (visit her website).
Michael Meyerhofer is a poet and fantasy author who believes those two genres genuinely can get along. His fifth poetry book, Ragged Eden, was published by Glass Lyre Press. His fourth, What To Do If You’re Buried Alive, was published by Split Lip Press. In addition to his poetry books, he has published two fantasy trilogies. His debut fantasy novel, Wytchfire (Book I in the Dragonkin Trilogy), was published by Red Adept Publishing, and went on to win the Whirling Prize and a Readers Choice nomination from Big Al’s Books and Pals. Michael has won the Marjorie J. Wilson Best Poem Contest, the Laureate Prize for Poetry, the James Wright Poetry Award, and the Annie Finch Prize for Poetry. He received his BA from the University of Iowa and his MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. An avid weightlifter, medieval weapons collector, and unabashed history nerd, he currently lives, teaches, and inhabits various coffee shops around Fresno, CA. For more information, (visit his website).
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