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Matt Galletta reads The Doppler

Matt Galletta lives in upstate New York with his wife and daughter. A collection of poems, The Ship is Sinking, is forthcoming from Epic Rites Press. Find more of his work at www.mattgalletta.com.

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Elise Glassman reads The Junk

Elise Glassman has been a reader since her Grandma Marguerite gave her a subscription to Highlights Magazine and a writer since she began penning teen-aged angst into a blue flowered notebook. She’s studied fiction with Laura Kalpakian and others at the University  of...

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Noah Falck reads Excluding Happy Hour

Noah Falck is the author of Snowmen Losing Weight (BatCat Press, 2012) and several chapbooks including Celebrity Dream Poems (Poor Claudia, 2013). He co-curates the Silo City Reading Series in an abandoned grain silo and works as education director at Just Buffalo...

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Maureen Alsop reads Sweepspear

Maureen Alsop, PhD is the author of two full collections of poetry, Mantic (Augury Books) and Apparition Wren. Her most recent poems have appeared at Watershed Review, Citron Review, and ditch poetry.

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Jennifer McGaha reads The Gift of the Pantyhose

A native of Appalachia, Jennifer McGaha lives with her husband, five dogs, twenty-three chickens, and one high-maintenance cat in a tin-roofed cabin bordering the Pisgah National Forest in western North Carolina. Her creative nonfiction work has appeared in...

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Midori Chen reads A Growing Up Interlude

Midori Chen is a senior at San Francisco Ruth Asawa School of the Arts. She is a fiction writer and a poet, and has been published in online and print magazines such as Weirdyear, Off the Coast, and Umläut.

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Alvin Lu reads an excerpt from Early Spring

Alvin Lu was born and lives in San Francisco. He attended Brown University, where he received an MFA in writing, and has worked as a journalist, a salaryman in Tokyo, and a publisher of manga. He is the author of a novel The Hell Screens, and has been at work on a...

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Katy Masuga reads Biking at Night

Katy Masuga writes fiction and nonfiction, blurring the lines of distinction. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a Joint-PhD in Literary Theory and Criticism. Her publications include two monographs on Henry...

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Arielle Greenberg reads Afterschool Special

Arielle Greenberg is co-author of Home/Birth: A Poemic, author of My Kafka Century, Given, and co-editor of three anthologies, including Gurlesque. She lives in Maine and teaches out of her home, in the Maine community, and in the Oregon State University-Cascades low...

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Janice Worthen reads Nomenclature

Janice Worthen lives and writes in the Bay Area of California. She's a regular contributor to the online news source The Alamedan. Her poetry has appeared in The Rectangle, Switchback, and her poem "Fire Closest Kept" won University of Idaho's Banks Award. When Janice...

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Rich Ives reads No Sign

Rich Ives has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Trust, Seattle Arts Commission, and the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines for his work in poetry, fiction, editing, publishing, translation, and photography. His writing...

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Darren C. Demaree reads Emily as a Mango Hitting the Ground

Darren C. Demaree is living in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife and children. He is the author of As We Refer To Our Bodies (2013) and Not For Art Nor Prayer (2014), both collections from 8th House Publishing House. He is the recipient of two Pushcart Prize nominations...

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Laurie Blauner reads Guide for the Perplexed

Laurie Blauner is the author of three novels, The Bohemians (2013), Infinite Kindness (2007), and Somebody (2002), and six books of poetry.  Her most recent chapbook of poetry was published by dancing girl press.  A novella called Instructions for Living was published...

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Abeer Hoque reads Beatrice

  Abeer Hoque photo by Glen Jackson Taylor Abeer Hoque is a Nigerian-born Bangladeshi writer and photographer. Her coffee-table book of travel photographs and poems, The Long Way Home, came out in 2013, and her novel in stories The Lovers and the Leavers (Bengal...

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Arisa White reads Here the neighbor screams for Frankie

Arisa White is a Cave Canem fellow, an MFA graduate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is the author of the chapbooks Disposition for Shininess and Post Pardon, as well as the full-length collections Hurrah's Nest and A Penny Saved. Her debut...

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Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair.

—Arthur Rimbaud, “Phrases

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