The Meadow Annual Literary Arts Journal 2021

194 The Meadow Lenny DellaRocca is founder and co-publisher of South Florida Poetry Journal. His fourth collection of poetry is Festival of Dangerous Ideas (Unsolicited Press, 2019). His work has appeared in The Meadow, Nimrod, Seattle Review, Poet Lore and others. Ellis Elliot received a bachelor’s degree in English from Rhodes College and is currently enrolled in the M.F.A. program of Queens University. She also has studied and taught yoga for the past ten years. She and her husband have a blended family of six grown sons. She enjoys mixed-media art and art journaling, paddleboarding, running, kinesiology, and choreography. Donna Emerson writes poetry and prose. She is recently retired from college teaching and her practice as a licensed clinical social worker. Michael Estabrook has been publishing his poetry in the small press since the 1980s. He has published over 20 collections, a recent one being The Poet’s Curse, A Miscellany (The Poetry Box, 2019). Joseph Fasano is the author of the novel The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (Platypus Press, 2020) and four books of poetry: The Crossing (2018), Vincent (2015), Inheritance (2014), and Fugue for Other Hands (2013). His honors include the Cider Press Review Book Award, the Rattle Poetry Prize, and six Pushcart Prize nominations. His writing has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The Yale Review, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Boston Review, Measure, Verse Daily, the PEN Poetry Series, American Poets, Pank, Tin House, and the Academy of American Poets’ poem-a-day program, among other publications. He teaches at Columbia University and Manhattanville College, he serves on the Editorial Board of Alice James Books, and he is the Founder of the Poem for You Series. Doris Ferleger, award-winning poet and author of Big Silences in a Year of Rain, As the Moon Has Breath, and Leavened, holds an M.F.A. in Poetry

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