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Albert Abonado is the author of JAW (Sundress Publications). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. His work has appeared in Colorado Review, Poetry Northwest, The Margins, The Laurel Review, Zone 3 and others. He teaches creative writing at SUNY Geneseo and RIT. He lives in Rochester, NY with his wife and
An arts advocacy group has accused Mayor Lovely Warren of misrepresenting an outdoor mural of Daniel Prude pictured in promotional materials that complemented her recent State of the City address, in which she pledged to foster “a bold new era of public art.” The group, Roc Arts United, wrote in a letter dated Jan. 25 that, according to the artists who created the mural, their work was “a direct response to the city of Rochester’s involvement in Mr. Prude’s death.” “The city’s use of these images re-contextualizes the artworks and misrepresents the artists’ i...
** Darren C. Demaree is the author of fourteen poetry collections, most recently Unfinished Murder Ballads, (Backlash Press, 2020). He is the recipient of a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louis Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Best of the Net Anthology and Managing Editor of Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children. INTRODUCTION Developing a writing practice and a reading practice takes time. There are so many little things that have ...