Maw Shein Win was the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito. Her recent poetry book is Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn) nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry, long-listed for the PEN America Open Book Award, and short-listed for the California Independent Booksellers Alliance’s Golden Poppy Award for Poetry. D.A. Powell wrote…
Lincoln Bergman is a poet, radio journalist, editor, and educator who served as poet laureate of Richmond CA. He is a member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade, a co-founder of the Freedom Archives (www.freedomarchives.org) and author of: Chants of a Lifetime: Selected Poetry; Triple Play: Three Richmond Poets Laureate; The East is Red: Paper Cuts of the Chinese Revolution; and…
Dani Gabriel is a poet and writer, the author of The Woman You Write Poems About (Civil Defense Press) and coauthor of Molotov Mouths (Manic D Press), as well as a manuscript in progress called Low Rent Prophet. Her work centers around an obsession with possibility: the possibility that we can heal the world, the…
Amy Glynn is a poet and essayist whose work appears widely in journals and anthologies including The Best American Poetry. Measure Press published her first poetry collection, A Modern Herbal, in 2013; her second, Romance Language, is forthcoming. She has received the Troubadour Prize, the SPUR Award of the Association of Western Writers, Poetry Northwest’s Carolyn Kizer Award and scholarships to the Sewanee and…