CONTRIBUTORS

from Raleigh Review Vol. 3 (2013)

by raleighreview

REVIEWS

this world does indeed fall apart, maybe this poem contains our best advice:

…Eden. Ah, that did not last, did it?

…let’s locate Williams’ flower that unfolds and cannot be resisted— help it grow and burst everything open.

We can search night after night —dream after obscure dream.

…O brokenhearted race— take these hope‐filled roots— carry them carefully in your dreaming hands.

Keats

Melvin Pena

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CONTRIBUTORS

Jeffrey Alfier's poems have appeared recently in Vallum (Canada) and Post Road, with work forthcoming in New York Quarterly. His latest chapbook is Before the Troubadour Exits (2011). His first full‐length book of poems, The Wolf Yearling, will be published in 2012, by Pecan Grove Press. He serves as co‐editor of San Pedro River Review.

Doug Anderson's book The Moon Reflected Fire won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Blues for Unemployed Secret Police a grant from the Academy of American Poets. His memoir, Keep Your Head Down, was published in 2009 by W.W. Norton. He teaches at Emerson and Smith Colleges and is poet‐in‐residence at Fort Juniper, the former home of the poet Robert Francis in Amherst, Massachusetts.

John Balaban’s books have won the Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets, a National Poetry Series Selection, and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. His books have been nominated twice for the National Book Award. He is poet‐in‐residence and a professor of English at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

Judy Shepps Battle has been writing poems long before she became a psychotherapist and sociology professor at Rutgers University. Widely published both in the USA and abroad during the sixties and seventies, she deferred publishing to concentrate on career and family.

Shelley

Melvin Pena

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Benjamin Goldberg currently lives outside Washington, D.C. and works as a high school English teacher. His poem, "Gingerbread House" in Raleigh Review is his first poetry publication.

Travis Green is an artist currently living in Middlesex, North Carolina. He is recent graduate of North Carolina State University having received his B.A. in English.

Tawnysha Greene is currently a Ph.D. candidate in fiction writing at the University of Tennessee where she serves as the fiction editor for Grist: A Journal for Writers. Her work has appeared in various literary journals including Necessary Fiction and Bluestem and is forthcoming in Emprise Review.

Abie Harris won the Paris Prize in Architecture after graduating from N.C. State’s College of Art & Design. This national award enabled him to travel in Europe and study in Paris. He taught in the College of Design, co‐founded the architectural firm Envirotek, and, for thirty‐two years, helped plan the NC State University Main and Centennial campuses. His drawings have been widely published and exhibited at many universities, libraries, museums, and galleries. He is now a charter artist at the Roundabout Art Collective.

Tanya Jacob is a clinical psychologist, and a standup comedian living in Santa Monica, California. Her publication credits include Pearl, Red Wheelbarrow, Temenos, Red Ochre, Primal Urge Magazine, 5X5, and the Chuffed Books anthology: You, Me, & a Bit of We.

Coleridge

Melvin Pena

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Dorianne Laux’s most recent collections are The Book of Men (Winner of The Paterson Prize and The Roanoke‐Chowan Award for Poetry) and Facts about the Moon (Winner of the Oregon Book Award). She is co‐author of a handbook on writing, The Poet’s Companion, all from W.W. Norton. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, Laux is also author of Awake, What We Carry, and Smoke from BOA Editions, as well as a fine press edition, The Book of Women, from Red Dragonfly Press. Laux teaches poetry in the MFA Program at North Carolina State University. Laux is founding faculty at Pacific University's Low Residency MFA Program, and board president of Raleigh Review.

Nissa Lee studies and teaches writing at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. Her poetry has been published in several online journals, including Wicked Alice and Requited.

Gerardo Mena is a decorated Iraqi Freedom veteran. He spent six years in Special Operations with the Reconnaissance Marines and was awarded a Navy Achievement Medal with a V for Valor for multiple acts of bravery. He won the 2010War Poetry contest sponsored by Winning Writers, was selected for Best New Poets 2011, and has pieces published or forthcoming in Cream City Review, Raleigh Review, Poetry East, Diagram, Barely South Review, and the Louisiana Review, among others.

Ruby Newman is an artist born in northern New Jersey, who currently lives in San Francisco Bay. She received her BFA from Carnegie‐Mellon University, and has been involved in many public arts projects as well as creating private commissioned works for over 35 years.

Jane Otto’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Journal, Eclipse, Talking River, PANK, and Raleigh Review. Otto was raised in Colorado and grew up in New York City, where she lived for 23 years. In 2006, she and her family relocated to Los Angeles, where she raises financial support for nonprofit organizations.

Scott Owens has received awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. He is the author of ten collections of poetry and over one thousand published poems in journals including Georgia Review, North American Review, Chattahoochee Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Poetry East, among others. He is the founder of Poetry Hickory, editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review and 234, and vice president of the Poetry Council of NC. Born and raised in Greenwood, SC, he teaches at Catawba Valley Community College in Hickory, NC.

Tasha Pippin, a poetry editor, copyeditor, and reviewer for Raleigh Review, is a recent MFA graduate from North Carolina State University where she taught poetry and creative writing. Her poetry won a state‐wide poetry contest in 2012, and she is published in several journals including Tar River Poetry and Cider Press Review. She currently lives in Raleigh, NC.

David Rigsbee is the author of The Red Tower: New and Selected Poems (New South Books 2010), which won the Arthur Young Award for best book of poems by an NC author in 2010, and of The Pilot House (Black Lawrence Press 2011), which won the Black River Poetry Prize. His new collection, School of the Americas, will be published next spring by Black Lawrence Press and his poems have appeared in AGNI, APR, The New Yorker, Poetry, as well as the Pushcart Prize Anthology in 2012, among other places.

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Richard Sonnenmoser lives in Maryville, Missouri, where he teaches at Northwest Missouri State University. He earned his M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His short fiction has appeared in Harvard Review and West Branch, among other places. His poetry manuscript, ScienceMagic School, won the 2010 Midnight Sun Chapbook Contest. He's the fiction editor for The Laurel Review.

Nicole M. Taylor is a writer and a copyeditor, whose work has appeared in Jabberwocky and The Puritan, among other places.

Kristen Hamelin Tracey's fiction has recently appeared or is upcoming in The Foundling Review and Unlikely 2.0, and she has written several children's e‐books.

Leslee Renee Wright currently works in higher education as an assistant professor of literature and creative writing at Metro State College of Denver. Her poems have previously appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Creek Review, YB Poetry, Louisville Review, Moon Milk Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Cimarron Review, and others.

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Raleigh Review Staff Thanks The Following For Contributions Towards This Issue

United Arts Council of Raleigh & Wake County NC Arts Council Tell It Slant Journal of the Month Roundabout Art Collective Two Guys Restaurant Living Poetry Joseph Milllar & Dorianne Laux JE Greene Family RD Greene Family SB Shah Family John Balaban Geoff Holden Betty Adcock Elaine Neil Orr Karen Kurt Teal Al Maginnes Our Board & Workshop Faculty Our Musicians The Bookstores listed on our website Those who attend our workshops Best of the Net & writers’ markets who list us Those who subscribe The poetry & writers festivals that host us Those who visit our bookshop loft Those who trust us with their work Those who attend our events, and Our families, muses, etcetera