Charlie Bondhus, Tina Cane, Janlori Goldman
Charlie Bondhus is the author of Divining Bones (Sundress, 2018) and All the Heat We Could Carry (Main Street Rag, 2013), winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. He received his MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and his PhD in literature from UMASS Amherst. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Missouri Review, Columbia Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Nimrod, and Copper Nickel. He has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Sundress Academy for the Arts, and the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers (UK). He is associate professor of English at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg, NJ. Online at charliebondhus.com.
Tina Cane is the author of The Fifth Thought (Other Painters Press, 2008), Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante, poems with art by Esther Solondz (Skillman Avenue Press, 2016), Once More With Feeling (Veliz Books, 2017) and Body of Work (Veliz Books, 2019).er poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications, including The Literary Review, Two Serious Ladies, Tupelo Quarterly, Jubliat and The Common. Born and raised in New York City, Cane serves as the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island, where she is the founder and director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI, and an instructor with the writing community, Frequency Providence. She also co-produces, with Atticus Allen, the podcast, Poetry Dose. Online at tinacane.ink
Janlori Goldman is the author of Bread from a Stranger’s Oven (White Pine Press, 2017), chosen by Laure-Anne Bosselaar for the White Pine Press Poetry Prize, as well as of chapbook, Akhmatova’s Egg (Toadlily Press, 2013). Her poems have appeared in Mudlark, Connotation Press, The Cortland Review, and The Mom Egg, among other journals. Goldman won the first annual Raynes Poetry Prize from Jewish Currents magazine, for her poem “At the Cubbyhole Bar,” chosen by Gerald Stern. With Cheryl Boyce Taylor and Caits Meisnner, she co-founded The Wide Shore: A Journal of Global Women’s Poetry. Goldman worked with Paris Press on the first joint publication of Virginia Woolf’s On Being Ill with her mother, Julia Stephen’s Notes from Sick Rooms. Goldman teaches Public Health Law and Social Justice at Columbia Law School and NYU School of Law. She works with the Center for Justice at Columbia University and as a writing mentor and at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Online at hugeshoes.org.