poetry

DAY ONE: Rules by Taneum Mariah Bambrick

Taneum Bambrick is the author of Reservoir, which was selected by Ocean Vuong for the 2017 Yemassee Chapbook Contest. She is a recent graduate of the MFA program at the University of Arizona. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Academy of American PoetsHayden’s Ferry ReviewHobartThe Nashville ReviewNew Delta Review, and elsewhere. She has received an Academy of American Poets University Prize and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writer’s Conference. She teaches English at Central Washington University. 

DAY FIVE: Cruel Summer/Normal Skin Flora by Jessie Janeshek

Jessie Janeshek's second full-length book of poems is The Shaky Phase (Stalking Horse Press). Her chapbooks are Spanish Donkey/Pear of Anguish (Grey Book Press, 2016), Rah-Rah Nostalgia, (dancing girl press, 2016), Hardscape (Reality Beach, forthcoming), and Supernoir (Grey Book Press, forthcoming). Invisible Mink (Iris Press, 2010) is her first full-length collection. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and an M.F.A. from Emerson College. You can read more of her poetry at jessiejaneshek.net.

DAY FIVE: jamie mortara & Carson Smith Strange by jamie mortara & Carson Smith Strange

Poem: jamie mortara is a queer poet/publisher/performer/pumpkin based in Portland, Oregon. They operate voicemailpoems.org, run the indie chapbook press Impossible Wings, and host the Slamlandia poetry slam. their poems and other projects can be found here.

Art: Carson Smith Strange, Seattle, WA. More on their Instagram.

DAY FOUR: jamie mortara & Carson Smith Strange by jamie mortara & Carson Smith Strange

Poem: jamie mortara is a queer poet/publisher/performer/pumpkin based in Portland, Oregon. They operate voicemailpoems.org, run the indie chapbook press Impossible Wings, and host the Slamlandia poetry slam. their poems and other projects can be found here.

Art: Carson Smith Strange, Seattle, WA. More on their Instagram.

DAY THREE: jamie mortara & Carson Smith Strange by jamie mortara & Carson Smith Strange

Poem: jamie mortara is a queer poet/publisher/performer/pumpkin based in Portland, Oregon. They operate voicemailpoems.org, run the indie chapbook press Impossible Wings, and host the Slamlandia poetry slam. their poems and other projects can be found here.

Art: Carson Smith Strange, Seattle, WA. More on their Instagram.

DAY TWO: jamie mortara & Carson Smith Strange by jamie mortara & Carson Smith Strange

Poem: jamie mortara is a queer poet/publisher/performer/pumpkin based in Portland, Oregon. They operate voicemailpoems.org, run the indie chapbook press Impossible Wings, and host the Slamlandia poetry slam. their poems and other projects can be found here.

Art: Carson Smith Strange, Seattle, WA. More on their Instagram.

DAY ONE: jamie mortara & Carson Smith Strange by jamie mortara & Carson Smith Strange

Poem: jamie mortara is a queer poet/publisher/performer/pumpkin based in Portland, Oregon. They operate voicemailpoems.org, run the indie chapbook press Impossible Wings, and host the Slamlandia poetry slam. their poems and other projects can be found here.

Art: Carson Smith Strange, Seattle, WA. More on their Instagram.