Winter Wheat 2016: Poetry Panel Features Part II
Our poetry panel features continues with these 5 great workshops that you can attend at Winter Wheat! “From Lyric to Lebowski: Writing the Pop Culture Poem,” with Donora Hillard What does it mean to write a “good” pop culture poem? How can poets use pop culture to access elements of love, anxiety, misery, hope?...
Pets with MAR: Ori
You’ve seen some cats, a bearded dragon, and now, let’s bring a dog into the picture. Get ready to meet Ori, owned by Teri Dederer. Teri is Ori’s faithful and devoted human slave, dedicated to carrying out his extensive feeding and exercise regime. She and Ori have been together for seven wonderful years, beginning in Pittsburgh,...
Pets with MAR: Smaug
Last week you met some adorable cats, and this week MAR brings you a new pet–a bearded dragon, owned by the great Lisa Favicchia. Lisa Favicchia is the Managing Editor of Mid-American Review and a second-year MFA candidate in poetry at Bowling Green State University. When she is not reading or writing, she is busy...
Spotlight on Teresa Dederer, Fiction Editor
Mid-American Review welcomes our new Fiction Editor, Teri Dederer, to the staff! Teri grew up in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and attended the University of Pittsburgh. She is currently a second-year graduate student pursuing an M.F.A. in fiction from Bowling Green State University, where she takes long walks alongside...
Meet the MAR Staff!
Hello, let’s take some time today to meet Mid-American Review’s fiction editor, Lydia Munnell! Lydia is a native of rural western Pennsylvania who has spent the last several years on the east side of Cleveland coordinating the after school program at Lake Erie Ink, a non-profit writing space for youth. While in Cleveland, she was...
Meet The MAR Staff!
Hello, let’s take some time today to meet Mid-American Review’s non-fiction editor, Karen Craigo! Karen Craigo is a poet whose first full-length collection, No More Milk, is forthcoming in 2016 from Sundress Publications. She is also an essayist and maintains the blog Better View of the Moon. She is a founder of Paper Crane Writing...
Meet The MAR Staff
Hello, Let’s take some time today to get to know Mid-American Review’s managing editor, Nicole Connolly! Nicole Connolly is a second-year poetry student at Bowling Green State University’s MFA program, and currently Mid-American Review’s managing editor. Prior to this, she was briefly the content coordinator for EB5 Investors Magazine, and for two-and-a-half-years the lead...