Meet Our Contributors: Q&A with Ashley Kunsa

Ashley Kunsa is an Assistant Professor of creative writing at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, MT. She holds a PhD in English literature from Duquesne University and an MFA in fiction writing from Penn State. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Bennington Review, Massachusetts Review, Radar Poetry, Cream City Review, and Southern Humanities Review, and her fiction and nonfiction […]

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Meet Our Contributors: Q&A with Beth Dulin

Beth Dulin’s writing has appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, Atlanta Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Gargoyle, New York Quarterly, Wigleaf, and Wild Roof Journal, among others. In March 2021, she was featured as Yes Poetry’s Poet of the Month. She’s the author and co-creator of Truce, a limited-edition artists’ book, in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. Visit her online: https://www.bethdulin.com/ […]

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Concerning Craft: Unpunctured Verse

This month our guest essay is by current LPR contributor Bee Morris. ˜ Mastery of any craft is a rare yet intensely desirable thing. I think of my poetry as a muscle, aninstrument— something that must be stretched and made limber, must be practiced in order toachieve its full range of sound and beauty. Few […]

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Spotlight on Poets: Cate McGowan

Cate McGowan is an essayist, poet, fiction writer, and author of two books. Most recently, her poetry appears in the Summer 2022 issue of LPR. Click here to read her poem “Ineffable” *Art by the painter John Constable, “Rainstorm Over Sea.”

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Meet Our Contributors: Q&A with Jeffrey Alfier

Jeffrey Alfier is a poet and photographer who resides in Southern California. His most recent poetry collection, The Shadow Field, was published by Louisiana Literature Journal & Press. Other books include Gone This Long – Southern Poems, The Wolf Yearling, The Red Stag at Carrbridge – Scotland Poems, and Idyll for a Vanishing River. Bleak Music, a photography-poetry collaboration with […]

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