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Artist: Vicki Cook
Poet: Lauren K. Alleyne
Poem: Gretel as Bard

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Artist: Vicki VanAmeyden
Poet: Mónica Gomery
Poem: Bad Milk

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Lauren K. Alleyne 

Lauren K. Alleyne  is the author of two collections of poetry, Difficult Fruit and Honeyfish, as well as co-editor of Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry.  Her work has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, The Atlantic, Ms. Muse, Tin House, and  Guernica, among others. Her most recent honors include nominations for a 2020 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Poetry, the 2020 Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the Library of Virginia Literary Awards. Born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, Alleyne currently resides in Harrisonburg, VA, where she is a professor of English at James Madison University, and the assistant director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center. Get more information about Lauren at www.laurenkalleyne.com and follow her at @poetLKA on social media.

Mónica Gomery

Mónica Gomery is a poet and rabbi, raised by her Venezuelan Jewish family in Boston and Caracas, and now living on Lenni Lenape land in Philadelphia. Her work explores queerness, diaspora, ancestry, theology, and cultivating courageous hearts. She is the author of Here is the Night and the Night on the Road(Cooper Dillon Books, 2018), and the chapbook Of Darkness and Tumbling (YesYes Books, 2017). Her poetry has won the 2020 Minola Review Poetry Contest, and has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net. Current work can be found in Foglifter, The Boiler, Poetry Foundation's Poem of The Day, and forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, So To Speak, Luna Luna, and The Journal. Read more at www.monicagomerywriting.com.