∫ Gulls & Cherry Blossoms ∫ darlene anita scott is an insatiable daydreamer and so-so runner who loves Mike & Ikes. Her poetry has appeared in anthologies Homegirls Make Some Noise, Growing Up Girl, and Role Call and journals including Warpland, Bloodroot, and California Quarterly. Scott is currently working on a collection of poems imagining Jonestown Guyana, a spiritual community whose residents were coerced into suicide by their leader.
Jeremy Sheets sat on Nebraska's death row from 1997 to 2001. He recently traveled with fellow exonerated death row survivors Clarence Brandley, Dan Bright, Greg Wilhoit and others on the multiracial Witness to Innocence Texas Freedom Ride to mobilize folks in churches, colleges, and cafes against the death penalty in the state that leads the country in executions.
Paul Shepherd is the author of the novel More Like Not Running Away, winner of the Mary McCarthy Award and published by Sarabande Books.
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