The 2River View 15.3 (Spring 2011)
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New Poems by

Jennifer Atkinson is the author of three books of poetry, the most recent of which is Drift Ice. She teaches in the MFA program at George Mason University in Virginia. (contact)

Jose Angel Araguz was raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, and now lives in Eugene, Oregon. His work has been published in such journals as The Acentos Review and Rattle and featured in Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry. New work is forthcoming in Hanging Loose. (contact)

L. S. Bassen won the 2009 Atlantic Pacific Press Drama Prize. Currently, three of her novels are serialized at Troubadour 21 and Fried Fiction. She also reads for Electric Literature. (contact)

Andrew Cox is the author of The Equation That Explains Everything (BlazeVox), Fortune Cookies (2River) and Company X (Wordvirtual). He lives is University City, Missouri, where he edits The UCity Review. (contact)

David Harris Ebenbach teaches Creative Writing at Earlham College. His poetry has appeared in, among other places, Artful Dodge, The Beloit Poetry Journal, and Mudfish. His first book of short stories, Between Camelots (University of Pittsburgh Press), won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. (contactwebsite)

Charles Fishman is the author of The Death Mazurka, a 1989 American Library Association Outstanding Book of the Year, that was nominated for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His more recent books include Chopin's Piano (Time Being Books) and In the Language of Women, to be released this spring by Casa de Snapdragon. (contactwebsite)

Dan O'Brien, a former Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, will be a 2011 resident at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy. His poems have appeared in 32 Poems, Alaska Quarterly Review, Greensboro Review, Margie, New South, Nimrod, storySouth, and elsewhere. (contactwebsite)

Susan Azar Porterfield has two books of poetry: In the Garden of Our Spines (Mayapple Press) and Beirut Redux (Finishingline). She is also the editor of Zen, Poetry, the Art of Lucien Stryk (Ohio UP). (contact)

David Salner has worked as an iron ore miner, steelworker, machinist, and general laborer. His second book, Working Here (2010),was awarded first prize by Minnesota State University's Rooster Hill Press. His poetry has appeared in The Iowa Review, Poetry Daily, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, and Threepenny Review. (contact • website)

Anna Lowe Weber currently lives, teaches, and writes in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in The Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, and Iowa Review, among others. (contact)

Art by Jackie Skrzynski

Eaten

Eaten

Frozen

Frozen

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Jackie Skrzynski teaches drawing and painting at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Her art has been exhibited at Ramapo College, The University of Arkansas, Georgia State College and University, and Columbia College. The images here in 2RV are from her series of deer roadkill. (contact)

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