SUZANNE O’CONNELL’s recently published work can be found in Forge, Atlanta Review, Crack The Spine, The Louisville Review, Found Poetry Review and Burningword Literary Journal among others. She lives in Los Angeles. She was nominated for a 2015 Best Of The Net award.

NATE PRITTS is the Director and Founding Editor of H_NGM_N (2001), an independent publishing house that started as a mimeograph ‘zine. His newest book of poetry, POST HUMAN, is just out from A-Minor Press. Nate lives among the Finger Lakes of NY state. For more, visit natepritts.com.

JOE SULLIVAN is author of a novel, Three Thirds, and his fiction and poetry have appeared in Ginosko Literary Journal, Poets/Artists, On Earth As It Is, OVERFLOW and Monkeybicycle. He works as managing editor of Dance Teacher magazine and plays saxophone semi-professionally. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his family.

For more: joesullivanwrites.wordpress.com.

KEVIN CASEY‘s work is forthcoming or has appeared recently in Paper Nautilus, Rust+Moth, San Pedro River Review, and other publications. His new chapbook “The wind considers everything——” was recently published by Flutter Press, and another from Red Dashboard is due out later this year. For more, visit andwaking.com.

TONY MAGISTRALE is Professor of English at the University of Vermont. He is the author of three poetry collections: What She Says About Love (Bordighera Press), The Last Soldiers of Love (Literary Laundry), and most recently, Entanglements (Fomite Press).

CHRISTINE RHEIN’s poetry collection, Wild Flight, is a winner of the Walt McDonald First Book Prize (Texas Tech University Press). Her poems have appeared in journals including The Gettysburg Review and The Southern Review, and have been awarded prizes from Green Mountains Review and Michigan Quarterly Review. In addition, her work has been selected for Poetry Daily, The Writer’s Almanac, Best New Poets and other anthologies.

KRISTINA OWENS will graduate with her MFA from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in July 2015. She lives in Brooklyn, NY and is currently working on her first collection of poems.

Longlisted for this year’s National Poetry Competition (UK) by The Poetry Society, JONATHAN GREENHAUSE was a finalist or honorable mention in 2014’s poetry contests from Naugatuck River Review, New Millenni-um Writings, Peregrine, Red Hen Press, and River Styx. His poetry has also appeared or is forthcoming in FOLIO, Gargoyle, Green Mountains Review, Quarter after Eight, RHINO, and Stand, among others.

HADARA BAR-NADAV is the author of Lullaby (with Exit Sign), awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize; The Frame Called Ruin, Runner Up for the Green Rose Prize; and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight, awarded the Margie Book Prize. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Fountain and Furnace, awarded the Sunken Garden Prize, and Show Me Yours, awarded the Midwest Poets Series Prize. In addition, she is co-author of the best-selling textbook Writing Poems, 8th ed. Recent awards include the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize from Crazyhorse and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Hadara is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

HADARA BAR-NADAV is the author of Lullaby (with Exit Sign), awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize; The Frame Called Ruin, Runner Up for the Green Rose Prize; and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight, awarded the Margie Book Prize. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Fountain and Furnace, awarded the Sunken Garden Prize, and Show Me Yours, awarded the Midwest Poets Series Prize. In addition, she is co-author of the best-selling textbook Writing Poems, 8th ed. Recent awards include the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize from Crazyhorse and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Hadara is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

ELIZABETH CONARD is a 2015 BFA graduate from Johnson State College, where she studied creative writing and served as an intern for Green Mountains Review. She is currently pursuing teaching licensure and exploring the ever-exciting world of MFA programs, appropriately priced car insurance, and vegetarian cooking. Pamplemousse is her first publication.

CINDY E. KING‘s work appears or is forthcoming in Callaloo, North American Review, River Styx, Black Warrior Review, American Literary Review, jubilat, Barrow Street, African American Review. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, she currently lives in Texas, where she is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas at Dallas.

Rebecca Macijeski received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2011 and is currently studying toward a PhD in Poetry at University of Nebraska—Lincoln where she serves as an Assistant Editor in Poetry for Hunger Mountain and Prairie Schooner.

The head and heart are separate, breathing creatures / existing on these killing plantations \ while the beets grow forth out of vengeance.

Naoko Fujimoto is a native of Japan. She is finding a home for her first poetry manuscript, “Radio Tower.” Her recent publications are in Prairie Schooner, Construction Literary Magazine, and NANO Fiction.

LISA LEWIS’s books include The Unbeliever(Brittingham Prize), Silent Treatment (National Poetry Series), Vivisect, (New Issues Press), and Burned House with Swimming Pool (American Poetry JournalPrize, Dream Horse Press). A fifth volume, The Body Double, will be published in 2015 by Georgetown Review Presss. New work appears or is forthcoming in Florida Review, Carolina Quarterly, American Literary Review, Guernica, Sugar House Review, and Tampa Review. She directs the creative writing program at Oklahoma State University and serves as poetry editor for the Cimarron Review.

Kyle Flak‘s recent things of poetry include WHAT HANK SAID ON THE BUS (Publishing Genius, 2013)(Winner of the Chris Toll Prize), THE SECRET ADMIRER (Adastra Press, 2010), and HARMONICA DAYS (New Sins Press, 2009). In 2013, he was a finalist for a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation. In 2015, he was chosen as a “Poet to Notice” by Grandma Moses Press. His writing has recently appeared in Dragnet Anthology 1, Hart House Review, Makeout Creek, Mudfish, Poetry East, Spinning Jenny, Whiskey Island, and various other places.  He went to school at Northern Michigan University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Currently, he works at a library and volunteers at The Haiku Foundation.

Not what we once were, wrapped tight in stinging / nettles, lottery cards etched in bad blood / upon our skins. Writhing, we lost ourselves

Dipped his balls in the sour cream / Dipped his balls in the salad dressing / Dipped his balls in the steak sauce / Dipped his balls in the mayonnaise / Dipped his balls in the eggnog

Why should we carry the names / our fathers? / Like it were a badge of pride, / For the alcoholics they’ve become,

I watched a movie recently about a man, a machinist, who / runs-over and kills a woman and her young girl.

Which of them had the idea / to write my name on an envelope, / seal itself in /

Major undertaking, Allegro / in the huge distance, and also Allegro / wondering, as if music itself / can wonder, why it wasn’t planted

Her raspberry sweater / matched her lip gloss; / in red boots she glided / past bushes with bright berries.

It happens like this: upon sustaining a severe blow to the head, the brain tells the arms to jut out in front of the body, in the same way that a fencer will hold out his foil in an act of aristocratic bellicosity just before all the lights go out. Almost adorable...