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Artist: Brooks Eisenbise
Poet: Emily Skaja
Poem: I Have Read the Whole Moon
Media: Linocut in teal with letterpress on cream Arches

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Artist: Kelly Vander Kley
Poet: Diane Seuss
Poem: Still-Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl
Media: Linocut in dark teal with Letterpress on white BFK Rives

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Emily Skaja

Emily Skaja was born and raised in rural Illinois. Her first book, BRUTE, won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets (Graywolf Press, 2019). She holds an MFA from Purdue University and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Cincinnati, where she also earned a certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Emily’s poems have been published in Best New Poets, Blackbird, Crazyhorse, FIELD, and Gulf Coast, among other journals. She works as the Poetry Co-Editor of Southern Indiana Review.She is also the recipient of a 2019-2020 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She lives in Memphis.

Diane Seuss

Diane Seuss’s most recent collection, Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, was released in 2018 by Graywolf Press and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry;  Four-Legged Girl,  published in 2015 by Graywolf Press, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open won the Juniper Prize and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2010.  A fifth collection,  Frank: Sonnets, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2021. Seuss was raised in rural Michigan, which she continues to call home.