Clif Mason is a professor of English and Humanities at Bellevue University, in Bellevue, NE. He is the author of one full-length collection, Knocking the Stars Senseless (Stephen F. Austin State University Press), and three chapbooks: The Book of Night & Waking (winner of the Cathexis Northwest Press Chapbook Prize), Self-Portraits in Which I Do Not Appear (Finishing Line Press), and From the Dead Before (Lone Willow Press). His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has won prizes from the Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest (chosen by Marge Piercy), Writers’ Journal, Plainsongs, the Midwest Writers’ Conference, and the Academy of American Poets. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Rwanda, Africa.
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Featured Poet Terry Blackhawk→
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Terry Blackhawk’s life as a poet began in her mid-forties when she was teaching high school English and Creative Writing (1987-1994) for Detroit Public Schools. She received the Foley Poetry Prize in 1990, and her first book, body & field (Michigan State University Press, 1999), was a finalist in a number of first book awards, including the Larry Levis and Brittingham Prizes. She also received awards for teaching from Scholastic, Inc., United Black Artists, and Michigan Youth Arts Festival, which twice named her Michigan Creative Writing Teacher of the year. In 1995 she founded InsideOut Literary Arts Project, a 501©3 that extended her experiences as a classroom teacher of poetry to Detroit teens and continues to serve thousands of young Detroit writers every year. Find out more about Terry and read her poems in our Featured Poet section.
Read MoreFeatured Poet Angelique Zobitz
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Angelique Zobitz is a poet, raised on the South Side of Chicago. She’s a recent transplant to the intersection of agriculture and academia in West Lafayette, Indiana. Born to a dope-ass, teen mom, word nerd, punk rock singer in the early 80's, she was raised at the knee of farm folks from Louisiana who'd joined the military and moved North during the Great Migration to work in factories. Read her poems and find out about her forthcoming book in her poet feature.
Read MoreFeatured Poet Esteban Rodriguez→
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Esteban Rodríguez was raised in the Rio Grande Valley along the Texas/Mexican border. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, he worked as a barista and a writing tutor before becoming a high school teacher. A graduate of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s MFA program, his writing seeks to explore they ways in which cultural traditions and expectations shape our understanding of identity, family relationships, and our everyday interactions with the world at large. Read Esteban’s poems on our Featured Poet page.
Read MoreFeatured Poet Chloe Martinez
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Chloe Martinez is a poet and a scholar of South Asian religions. She grew up in New Bedford, MA and attended Barnard College, where she was a Mellon Mays Fellow. She did her graduate work at UC Santa Barbara, Boston University, and the MFA for Writers at Warren Wilson College, where she was a Holden Scholar. Her scholarly articles appear in South Asia and The Medieval History Journal and she is at work on a monograph about religion and autobiography in pre-modern-to-modern South Asia. Her poetry has been nominated for Best New Poets and the Pushcart Prize and has appeared or is forthcoming in many publications, including Waxwing, The Common, Prairie Schooner and Shenandoah.
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