


His sequential works appears in Redivider, The Ilanot Review, Aquifer, Sonder Review, Two Cities Review, Empty Mirror, and Sequentials. Reimagining place Writing for an equitable climate future Biannual. For our Sound issue, we want to include work that experiments with the vast possibilities meter has to offeraccentual work, amphibrachs, dipodic meter, everything between. He has published two novels: School for Tricksters (SMU 2011) and Pretend I’m Not Here (HarperCollins 2002) and four books on comics: On the Origin of Superheroes (Iowa 2015), Superhero Comics (Bloomsbury 2017), Superhero Thought Experiments (with Nathaniel Goldberg, Iowa 2019), and Creating Comics (with Leigh Ann Beavers, Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2020). Ecotone will be open from September 15 to September 25 to submissions of metrical poetry only. She blogs about poetry at .Ĭhris Gavaler is an associate professor of English at W&L University, where he serves as comics editor of Shenandoah. Header photo by Jeff Stamer, courtesy Shutterstock. Her poems appear in many journals and anthologies including Poetry, Raritan, Ecotone, Yale Review, The Common, and Best American Poetry. Find details about every creative writing competitionincluding poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and morethat we’ve published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. He is editor of the Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review and lives in rural Virginia. Recent poems and essays appear in Image, Ecotone, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.

An ecotone is a transition zone between two adjacent ecological communities, containing the characteristic species of each. Nathaniel Perry is the author of two books of poetry, Nine Acres (APR/Copper Canyon, 2011) and Long Rules (Backwaters, 2021). She earned a BA in English- Writing from Denison University & an MFA in Poetry from West Virginia University, where she was awarded the James Paul. Founded at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2005, the award-winning magazine features writing and art that reimagine place, and our authors interpret this charge expansively. Maggie was born & raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Fox Professor of English at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, where she is poetry editor for Shenandoah. Her 40+ publications include Ninth Letter, jubilat, ECOTONE, Glass Poetry, Smartish Pace, Stanford Universitys MANTIS, & at least one bicep tattoo. Her poems and essays appear in Ecotone, Poetry, Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, Poetry Northwest, and many other journals. Poetry Northwest would like to acknowledge that our publications are made on the traditional homelands of the Coast Salish Peoplesincluding the Tullalip, Snohomish, Stillaguamish, and Sauk-Suiattle Tribeswhom we wish to honor, past and present, with the deepest respect and gratitude. Lesley Wheeler ( is the author of several poetry collections, including Radioland and Heterotopia, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize, and author of chapbook Propagation. Poetry Northwest: Illuminating poetry since 1959.
