venez célébrer la fête nationale du Québec avec vos amis favorites, Jacques et François. mangez de la poutine et portez vos chapeaux de castor.
Your next Mental Marginalia is coming at you French-like! JUNE 24th: TODER / AVANT / ROHRER / WHITTON / TRIPP
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les lecteurs:
Emily Toder is the author of the poetry collections Beachy Head and Science (from Coconut Books) and the chapbooks No Land (Brave Men), Brushes With (Tarpaulin Sky), and I Hear a Boat (Duets). She has translated various prose and poetry collections, among them The Life and Memoirs of Dr. Pi (Clockroot Books), Wendolin Kramer (Barcelona eBooks), and The Errant Astrologers (Ugly Duckling Presse).
A.H. Jerriod Avant is a native of Longtown, Mississippi. A graduate of Jackson State University, he was selected to participate in Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop in 2012 and 2013 at Brown University in Providence RI. A 2013 Pushcart nominee, his poems have appeared in The Louisville Review, PLUCK!, A Narrow Fellow, The Rumpus, Callaloo, H_NGM_N and are forthcoming from Lumberyard. Jerriod is currently an M.F.A. candidate and Writer in the Public Schools Fellow at New York University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Matt L. Rohrer’s writing has appeared in Tinfish, Sink Review, Jellyfish, GlitterPony, No Dear, The Surfer’s Journal, WAX, and elsewhere. His chapbook, Probability of Dependent Events, was published by Beard of Bees in 2012. He served as Editor in Chief of Small Desk Press, and currently edits the chapbook press Full Court. He’s the captain of the Crunch Squad, New York City’s premier poets’ basketball team.
Chelsea Whitton holds an MFA in poetry from The New School. Her poems have appeared in Sixth Finch, Bateau, Ilk, Rougarou, and Petrichor Review, among others. She has poems coming out in Four Chambers and The WomenArts Quarterly this fall. Originally from North Carolina, she now lives Ridgewood, Queens.
Ben Tripp is a poet who has also written about poetry, as well as music and other art for The Brooklyn Rail and HTML Giant. Poems have appeared or are with any luck forthcoming in Lemon Hound, CLOCK magazine, The Death And Life Of American Cities, Poems By Sunday, Pax Americana and The West Wind Review. He was born and raised in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, and currently lives in Ridgewood, Queens.