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Mariel Fechik: September 2018 Poet of the Month

Poet of the MonthJoanna ValenteMariel Fechik, poet of the month, poetry
Mariel Fechik: September 2018 Poet of the Month
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summer 1998

after Ananda Lima & Elizabeth Theriot

 

somewhere there are children wearing sequins / and we are them / but they are

not us / and they are swirling in aquarium light somewhere / the scent of hot

tar melting in the sun / still tickling the inside / of their noses / their hands

painted in chalked colors / like crushed candy and we wonder if they know /

that one day / all this sharpness / will dull / like the reddened point / of a

matchstick

Mariel Fechik lives in Chicago, IL and works in a library. She sings for the bands Fay Ray and Moon Mouth and writes music reviews for Atwood Magazine and Third Coast Review. She is a Bettering American Poetry nominee and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hobart, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Sundog Lit, and others. 

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Alexandra Smyth lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is a graduate of the City College of New York MFA Creative Writing Program. She was a finalist for the 2015 Cobalt Review Gabriela Mistral Poetry Prize and a recipient of the 2014 Poets and Writers Amy Award. Her work has appeared in Cobalt Review, Gravel, and TAB, among others. 

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Sophie E. Moss is a writer, lover, human, mess. When she isn't searching for the perfect leather jacket, she writes essays for Luna Luna Magazine and poetry for all the people she used to be. Her work appears in Dirty Chai Magazine, Ty Celf, Quail Bell Magazine, among others. You can find her on Twitter @Sophiedelays.

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Christina M. Rau: February 2016 Poet of the Month

Christina M. Rau is the author of the poetry chapbooks WakeBreatheMove (Finishing Line Press, 2015) and For The Girls, I (Dancing Girl Press, 2014). Founder of Poets In Nassau, a reading circuit on Long Island, NY, her poetry has appeared on gallery walls in The Ekphrastic Poster Show, on car magnets for The Living Poetry Project, most recently in the journals The Main Street Rag and Parenthetical. In her non-writing life, she practices yoga occasionally and line dances on other occasions. Find her links on http://alifeofwe.blogspot.com

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