The Meadow Literary and Art Journal 2013

Steve Shilling has been published in numerous journals, including: DASH Journal , Reed Magazine, Crannóg , and Red Wheelbarrow . A proud alumnus of Hope College, Shilling is an English teacher and high school football coach. He lives in McMurray, Pennsylvania with his wife Megan, two children, Stephen and Courtney, and cat Sammy. David-Glen Smith currently resides in Cypress, Texas, with his partner of twelve years, he teaches English Literature at both Wharton County Junior College and Lone Star College—CyFair. He received his M.F.A. at Vermont College, and his M.A. at the University of Missouri at St. Louis. Most importantly, as of December 2010 he and his partner have wel- comed a baby boy into their lives: new topics and inspirations for poetry projects. For more information visit: http://davidglensmith.blogspot.com. Noel Sloboda ’s work has recently appeared in Redactions , Gargoyle , Rattle , Modern Language Studies , and Harpur Palate . He is the author of the poetry collections Shell Games (2008) and Our Rarer Monsters (2013) as well as several chapbooks. Sloboda has also published a book about Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein. Daniel James Sundahl is Professor in American Studies and English at Hillsdale College where he has taught for thirty years Sean Sutherland is a writer living in New York City having grown up on the coast of Maine. His poem, “Hail,” will appear in the next issue of the literary magazine, Prick of the Spindle . His plays have had productions from The Opera House in Stonington Maine to Los Angeles. He is a Mac- Dowell fellow and has been studying poetry with Lisa Bellamy for the last two years at The Writers Studio in NYC. Adam Tavel received the 2010 Robert Frost Award, and his forthcoming collections are The Fawn Abyss (Salmon, 2014) and Red Flag Up (Katty- wompus, 2013), a chapbook. A former contributor to The Meadow, his recent poems have appeared in West Branch, South Dakota Review , The Minnesota Review , and The Cincinnati Review . Caitlin Thomas was born on the east coast. She attended TMCC, and now attends UNR, when the sun hits right. She freelances for the Reno News and Review and her work has appeared on the website, XOJANE. com. She’s been stripping for too long. She’s been writing poetry for lon- ger. Davide Trame is an Italian teacher of English and has been writing poetry in English since 1993. His poems have appeared in around four hundred magazines. 150 the Meadow