Celebrate Crab Creek Review's 2021 Fall Issue!
Grab your blankets and warm beverages, snuggle next to the fire, and join Crab Creek Review for an evening of poetry!
November 18 at 6pm PST, join Crab Creek Review as we celebrate the release of our fall issue. Featuring our contest winner, Lois Rosen, as well as our finalists and semifinalists, this issue has been a joy to edit and we can't wait to share it with you. In this issue you'll also find some treasures from our Poetry Classic Fast Lane, fiction by Franz Jørgen Neumann, and an interview with former Crab Creek Editor in Chief, Kelli Russell Agodon.
Settle in November 18 for good words, and great people. We're keeping it virtual so show up in your best and coziest zoom-wear!
Event Details
Date: November 18
Time: 6 pm PST
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89392556963?pwd=djVlUjk3NFVkTEtvYTkzSm9weGdGZz09
November 18 at 6pm PST, join Crab Creek Review as we celebrate the release of our fall issue. Featuring our contest winner, Lois Rosen, as well as our finalists and semifinalists, this issue has been a joy to edit and we can't wait to share it with you. In this issue you'll also find some treasures from our Poetry Classic Fast Lane, fiction by Franz Jørgen Neumann, and an interview with former Crab Creek Editor in Chief, Kelli Russell Agodon.
Settle in November 18 for good words, and great people. We're keeping it virtual so show up in your best and coziest zoom-wear!
Event Details
Date: November 18
Time: 6 pm PST
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89392556963?pwd=djVlUjk3NFVkTEtvYTkzSm9weGdGZz09
Readers
Melissa McKinstry lives in San Diego where she mothers her disabled adult son, curates a neighborhood poet tree, and assists with translation of Yiddish literature. She’s earning her MFA at Pacific University. Her work has appeared in Rattle, and is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, december, and The Comstock Review.
Karah Kemmerly is a queer writer who grew up in northern California and completed her MFA at Oregon State University. You can find her poems in DEAR, Redivider, The Jarnal, HAD, and Ethel. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she makes zines with Conjunction Press and teaches writing at the community college.
John Sibley Williams is the author of seven poetry collections, including Scale Model of a Country at Dawn (Cider Press Review Poetry Award), The Drowning House (Elixir Press Poetry Award), As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize), Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize, University of Nebraska Press), and Summon (JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize). A twenty-six-time Pushcart nominee, John is the winner of numerous awards, including the Wabash Prize for Poetry, Philip Booth Award, Phyllis Smart-Young Prize, and Laux/Millar Prize. He serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review and founder of the Caesura Poetry Workshop series. Previous publishing credits include Best American Poetry, Yale Review, Verse Daily, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, and TriQuarterly.
JUSTIN HUNT grew up in rural Kansas and lives in Charlotte, NC. His work has won several awards and appears, or is forthcoming, in a wide range of literary journals and anthologies in the U.S., Ireland and the U.K. He is currently working on a debut poetry collection.
Andrew Rahal is the author of the chapbook “No New Wilderness” (Seven Kitchens Press, 2021) and holds a PhD from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University, Belfast. He has received grants and awards for his writing from the Centre for Book Arts in NYC, Poetry Ireland in Dublin, the European Association of American Studies, and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Lois Rosen leads Salem, Oregon’s Trillium Writers, the ICL Writing Group at Willamette University, and co-founded the Peregrine Poets. She’s published Pigeons (Traprock Books, 2004), Nice and Loud (Tebot Bach, 2015), and Diving and Rising (Finishing Line Press, 2021). She won first prize in Crab Creek Review’s 2021 Poetry Contest.
grace (ge) gilbert is a poet & lyric essayist based in Pittsburgh. they have two chapbooks coming out in 2022: "NOTIFICATIONS IN THE DARK" (Antenna Books, poetry) and "the closeted diaries" (Porkbelly Press, essays). they are the recipient of the 2022 Under 27 Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at Mass MoCA, and have received funding from City of Asylum and Bread Loaf/Rona Jaffe. check out their work in the Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, ANMLY, Adroit Journal, the Offing, and more, and follow them on Twitter @geg2us.