Contributors

Nidhi Agrawal has a background in communication design in health, media and entertainment spaces. She strongly feels that poetry is a deal of joy, she is the author of the poetry collection, Confluence. Her work has been published in California State Poetry Society, University of Tennessee, Chronogram Media, Yale University, South Asian Today, Indian Periodical, Spill Words Press, Rising Phoenix Review, and Setu Journal, and elsewhere. She lives in Bihar, India.

Thomas Bonner, Jr. is writing the introduction and notes for the Indonesian translation of Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening and is making revisions on his poetry manuscript “Bagatelles.” His most recent poetry appeared in War, Literature and the Arts. He also wrote the foreword to Mary Queen Donnelly’s A Banks Street Story. An emeritus professor at Xavier and former editor of Xavier Review and its press, he is teaching a research course on Toni Morrison’s fiction.

Yuan Changming edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan at poetrypacific. blogspot.ca. Credits include eleven Pushcart nominations, nine chapbooks and poetry awards, as well as publications in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry: Tenth Anniversary Edition & BestNewPoemsOnline,among others. Recently, Yuan served on the jury for Canada’s 44th National Magazine Awards.

A native of the Midwest and a graduate of Shimer College, the University of Chicago and the Writers’ Workshop at University of Iowa, where he received his Ph.D., Peter Cooley has lived over half his life in New Orleans; he was Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Tulane University from 1975-2018. He has published eleven books of poetry, ten of them with Carnegie Mellon. His work has appeared in The

New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic and in over one hundred anthologies. His eleventh book of poetry The One Certain Thing appeared in 2021. Cooley was an Atlantic Younger Poet, the Robert Frost Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the recipient of an ATLAS grant from the state of Louisiana and of the Marble Faun Poetry Award from the Faulkner Society in New Orleans. He was Poetry Editor of North American Review from 1970-2000 and is currently Poetry Editor of Christianity And Literature, Professor Emeritus at Tulane University and former Louisiana Poet Laureate.

Elizabeth Crowell grew up in northern New Jersey, where she spent many a Saturday at Loehmann’s with her mother. She has a B.A. from Smith College in English Literature and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing/Poetry from Columbia University. Her work has been published widely, most recently in October Hill, Amethyst and Euonia Review. She has twice won The Bellevue Literary Review non-fiction prize. She taught college and high school English for many years. She lives and writes outside of Boston with her wife and teenage children.

Rowena De Shields is a Xavier University of Louisiana alumna who currently serves in the US Coast Guard. Her love of writing was nurtured by Xavier English Department Faculty, and she writes today with their continued support. In her most recent work I Is, I Am, I Are, she hopes to bring awareness to the unique challenges that sea-faring service members face.

Richard Godden, until his recent retirement, taught in the English Department at UCI. A critical study, Punctuating Capital: A Narrative Poetics for the Financial Turn, is to appear from Oxford U.P. later in the year. The poems here are part of a planned collection (‘Bits and Long Contractions’).

Maryanne Hannan has published poems in Spillway, Rattle, Slant, Cider Press Review, Oxford Poetry, and elsewhere. Her first book, Rocking Like It’s All Intermezzo, was published by Resource Publications (2019). A former Latin teacher, she lives in upstate New York.

David G. Lanoue is RosaMary Professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana. He has published several books and dozens of essays on Japanese haiku; he maintains the “Haiku or Kobayashi Issa” website, for which he has translated and annotated over 11,000 haiku.

Daniel W.K. Lee is a third-generation refugee of Cantonese Chinese heritage. He is the author of Anatomy of Want (QueerMojo/Rebel Satori Press, 2019). His work has been included in numerous print and online publications, including The New York Times, the UK’s Agenda and Oxford Poetry, Germany’s Mein schwules Auge (My Gay Eye), among others. He makes his home in New Orleans with his whippet Camden. Find out more about him at danielwklee.com

Cameron Lovejoy is the editor at Tilted House, a small press in New Orleans, LA. He hosts the Rubber Flower Poetry Hour, a reading series currently on virus hiatus. His work has appeared in Poets Reading the News, Barrelhouse, Trampoline, and elsewhere.

Louis Maistros is an author, photographer, artist, and musician. His photography has been published in The Times Picayune, Gambit Weekly, The Advocate and many others. His novel, The Sound of Building Coffins, has become an international cult favorite. He is currently hard at work preparing to open a bookstore/gallery, to be called The Old Arabi Lighthouse, located in the oldest building in St. Bernard Parish, which also functions as a happy home for himself, his wife Izzy, son Booker, three very strange cats, and several friendly ghosts. louismaistros.com

Ryan Mayer is a graduate student in the MFA program at the University of New Orleans.

Recent work by Bruce Robinson appears or is forthcoming in Spoon River, Maintenant, Seventh Quarry, Pangyrus, Rattle, Main Street Rag, and Evening Street Review. He last appeared in Xavier Review vol 13, no. 2 (1993).

John Robinson is from the Kanawha Valley in Mason County, West Virginia. His work has appeared in journals throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, Poland, Germany and China. He is also a published printmaker with 101 art images and photographs appearing in forty journals, electronic and print, in the United States, Italy, Ireland and the United kingdom. Recent work includes: “A Structuralist Poetics of James Dickey’s ‘Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek,’” published online at Revolution John December 13, 2020, and “Ground of a Theory: The Language Codes of Roland Barthes and American Critical Structuralism,” in Language and Semiotic Studies of Soochow University, Jiangsu Province, China, in early 2021.

Ajay Sawant is the assistant editor at the Southern Humanities Review and 2021 CPB Writing Fellowship recipient from The Bombay Review. His poems and critical work appear in The London Magazine, Live Wire, Hawaii Pacific Review, Xavier Review, The Bombay Review, The Louisville Review, Lunch Ticket, Cold Mountain Review and Rattle, among many others. Ajay often tweets at @ajaycycles

Gerald Snare is a professor emeritus and former chair of the department at Tulane University in New Orleans. He took his doctorate at UCLA in English and Continental Literature and Philosophy in 1968 and joined the faculty at what was then known as Newcomb College that same year. Of his teaching some generations of students can attest. Of writing, he

has published widely on most of the major literary figures in Renaissance England and Europe. He retired in 2007 and now lives with his wife Pamela in Nashville, Tennessee where he is still active as a reviewer of both modrn poetry and theological studies, most recently of Amanda Gorman’s volume of poems, Call Us What We Carry (2021).

John Stoss’s first book, Finding the Broom, was the second book published under the legendary Lost Roads imprint. John’s other books include Machines Always Existed (Portals Press, 1984) and Whatever Passes for Love is Love (Lavender Ink, 2012). His definitive biography is a poem, “The History of John Stoss,” by Frank Stanford. Nobody Loves Me: Collected Poems of John Stoss, edited by Justin Chimka, appeared this year from Lavender Ink.

Georgia Tiffany’s work can be found in various journals and anthologies including Chautauqua Literary Review, Threepenny Review, Expose, Midwest Review and Poets of the American West. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. A native of Spokane, Washington, she now lives in Moscow, Idaho.

Richard Weaver lives in Baltimore City where he volunteers with the Maryland Book Bank, CityLit, the Baltimore Book Festival, and is the author of The Stars Undone (Duende Press). He is the writer-in-residence at the James Joyce Pub. Other publications include: Dead Mule, Slush Pile, Birmingham Arts Journal, NER, New Orleans Review, FRIGG, Vanderbilt Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Barrow Street, Deep South Magazine, Southern Quarterly, Poetry, & Magnolia Review. He also wrote the libretto for the Symphony Of Sea and Stars, performed four times to date.

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