The Meadow Literary and Art Journal 2013

Alyse Bensel is the author of the poetry chapbook Shift (Plan B Press, 2012). Her poetry has appeared in Cider Press Review , Cold Mountain Re- view , MAYDAY Magazine , and Word Riot , among others. She is a regular book review contributor for the Los Angeles Review and Newpages . Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán is the author of Antes y después del Bronx: Lenapehoking and editor of an international queer Indigenous issue of Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought . His work appears in a hundred publications in Africa, the Américas, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Pacific. Andrea Buchanan is from the Siskiyou Mountains of Northern Califor- nia. She was a member of the United States Air Force as a Radio and Television Broadcast Journalist for six years and is currently studying at Truckee Meadows Community College, majoring in English. Rachel Carbonell is an artist, teacher and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Her work largely is concerned with the interaction of organic experience and emotions with industrialized, mechanized culture; it often incorporates patterns and abstractions and layers these with dramatic color and unexpected images. Her Twitter handle is RachelOliviaNYC. Shelby Cook is only seventeen, a baby really, and she is attending TMCC for the time being. Her poem “And Every Evening” was written about the constant struggle of one of her closest friends, as well as herself, when they are trying to retain composure and sanity in the presence of their families. Justin Crawford is finishing up his M.F.A. degree in fiction from West Virginia University, and he’s a native West Virginian. His story “Converge” is forthcoming from the online magazine Inwood Indiana. Otha “Vakseen” Davis III ’s passion for the arts has served as his key to sanity in the fast paced entertainment industry. Drawing inspiration from women, emotions, music and the African American experience, his mixed medium acrylic, oil and water color paintings on canvas have been sold to collectors and art enthusiasts throughout Los Angeles and the Southeast region of the U.S. His work has also been featured in Artnois Magazine, Cactus Heart Literary Magazine, Barely South Review, Penduline Press Magazine and Snax Magazine, to name a few. Darren C. Demaree is living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and chil- dren. He is the author of As We Refer to Our Bodies (2013) and Not For Art Nor Prayer ; both are scheduled to be published by 8th House Publish- ing House. He is the recipient of two Pushcart Prize nominations. Mary Stone Dockery is the author of Mythology of Touch and Aching Buttons . Her chapbook Blink Finch will be released in 2013. Her poetry 144 the Meadow