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Designed off the image of a train station with many tracks extending outward, Union Station has a distinct urban aesthetic. We seek to be inclusive, to put into relation the many narratives, images, and voices that are redefining our landscape.
–Come here. Go Everywhere.
editors:
SYREETA MCFADDEN is a writer and photographer from the dairy state whose motto is ‘forward’. She has a MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and has exhibited at A.I.R. Gallery, Gallery 718, 1110 Gallery, and the Goloborotko Studio in DUMBO. More of her work can be seen at syreetamcfadden.com. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Religion Dispatches, and others. She is currently writing a book of undetermined size and scope.
LYNNE PROCOPE is a Cave Canem fellow and a former National Poetry Slam champion. She is co-author of the collaborative collection, Burning Down the House. Her poems appear in So Much Things to Say, Drum Voices Review, His Rib: Women’s Anthology, Bowery Women, The Last American Valentine, Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution, Quarter After Eight, Washington Square, and decomP. She is Executive Director of the louderARTS Project.
JEANANN VERLEE is an author, performance poet, editor, and former punk rocker who collects tattoos and winks at boys. Author of Racing Hummingbirds, recipient of the Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal in Poetry, Verlee’s work has appeared in The New York Quarterly, FRiGG, kill author, PANK, and Not A Muse, among others. She has represented New York City at the National Poetry Slam five times under both NYC-Urbana and NYC-louderARTS, as well as at both the Individual World Poetry Slam and Women of the World Poetry Slam. Verlee is curator of the Urbana Poetry Slam reading series at Bowery Poetry Club. She believes in you. (Learn more at jeanannverlee.com.)
PAULA BOLLERS is a graduate of John Hopkins University and has studied Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design and the School of Visual Arts and obtained her PhD in Photomedia at the Sydney College of the Arts. She has taught photography studio, history and theory of Photomedia in Sydney and worked in fine arts and photography fields for the Dia Center, the Guggenheim Museum, the White Box and the New York Photo Festival.
featured contributors:
A 2011 Pushcart Prize Nominee, SAEED JONES received his MFA in Creative Writing at Rutgers University – Newark. His poetry has appeared in publications like Hayden’s Ferry Review, StorySouth, Jubilat, West Branch & The Collagist. His chapbook When the Only Light is Fire is available from Sibling Rivalry Press. His blog is For Southern Boys Who Consider Poetry.
JON SANDS’ first full collection of poems, The New Clean, was released in 2011 from Write Bloody Publishing. Jon has performed and facilitated workshops extensively with university and arts organizations nationally and internationally, and is Director of Poetry Education at the Positive Health Project (a syringe exchange center located in Midtown Manhattan), an adjunct with the City University of New York, as well as a Youth Mentor with Urban Word-NYC. He delivered the 2010 commencement address at the Bronx Academy of Letters, and starred in the 2011 web-series “Verse: A Murder Mystery” from Rattapallax Films. He lives in Brooklyn, where he makes better tuna salad than anyone you know. Say yes to www.jonsands.com.
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KIT HAGGARD
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JAMES MERENDA
SASHA WARNER-BERRY
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