Mariya Deykute is a writer, teacher and performance artist. She lives in Tohatchi, NM and teaches at the Tohatchi High School. She is a co-founder of the Quincy Art House and the Boston Poetry & Jazz Salon. She believes in the wilderness above most things. 

Poem: Lullaby For Kathleen Scott by Mariya Deykute

Andrea Spofford is the author of The Pine Effect (Red Paint Hill Publishing 2015), Qikqtagruk: Almost an Island (Red Bird Chapbooks 2014), and Everything Combustible (Dancing Girl Press 2013). Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in burntdistrict,The Sugar House Review, Redactions, Revolver, The Portland Review, Puerto del Sol, and others. Andrea is Poetry Editor for Zone 3 Press and Assistant Professor of Poetry at Austin Peay State University. 

Andrea’s debut poetry collection locates self within geographical experience, examining the intersection of person and place. Addressing themes of history, transformation, and youth, this collection explores the idea of poet as alchemist and scientist, explorer and observer.

"Andrea Spofford's debut collection is an engaging eco-poetical Bildungsromanin which Nancy Drew becomes a verb, traversed geographies stretch from hippodromes to sandstone caves, and vantage points move from the naturalist's eye to the panoramic gaze of an explorer compelled by the personal histories of place.'I want to tell you about sinking ships—Andrea Doria, Monitor, RMS Rhone./ I want to tell you about black holes, twenty-million bats in darkness'- Spofford's meticulous and striking images lead us to want to hear about it all."--Rebecca Morgan Frank

Interview: Poet, Essayist, Editor Andrea Spofford

Paul David Adkins interviews poet, Mary Lou Buschi, about her upcoming poetry collection, Awful Baby.

Mary Lou Buschi crafts elegant, dreamlike lyrics out of the fragments of disappearing memories and ruined worlds. Her leaps illuminate the charged midnights between images. With its surrealism of suburban childhoods and unstable sly truths, this Awful Baby floats above us all.
-Joanna Fuhrman, author of "The Year of Yellow Butterflies"

Mary Lou Buschi's Awful Baby is a wonderful book. There are moments of light and moments of darkness in her poems and a diversity of worlds in a single voice. The interplay dazzles, the poems dance and never move far from a deeply-felt humanity. Charged with energy, humor and compassion, Awful Baby reminds us that what truly matters is not triumph but engagement with all that life presents to us.
-Pablo Medina, author of "Cubop City Blues"


Interview: Poet Mary Lou Buschi

Megan Merchant is a Prescott resident and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from UNLV. She is a 2015 Pushcart Prize nominee, and her poem, “Filling Station God” won the Las Vegas Poets Prize, judged by Tony Hoagland. Her second full-length collection, “The Dark’s Humming” was the winner of the 2015 Lyrebird Prize (Glass Lyre Press, 2017). She is also the author of four chapbooks: Translucent, sealed. (Dancing Girl Press, 2015), In the Rooms of a Tiny House (ELJ Publications, October 2016), Unspeakable Light (Throwback Books, August 2016), and A Thousand Paper Cranes (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming). Gravel Ghosts is her debut full-length poetry collection through Glass Lyre Press. She also has a children’s book forthcoming through Philomel Books. You can find her work at meganmerchant.wix.com/poet.

Poem: Hush by Megan Merchant

Megan Merchant is a Prescott resident and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from UNLV. She is a 2015 Pushcart Prize nominee, and her poem, “Filling Station God” won the Las Vegas Poets Prize, judged by Tony Hoagland. Her second full-length collection, “The Dark’s Humming” was the winner of the 2015 Lyrebird Prize (Glass Lyre Press, 2017). She is also the author of four chapbooks: Translucent, sealed. (Dancing Girl Press, 2015), In the Rooms 
of a Tiny House (ELJ Publications, October 2016), Unspeakable Light (Throwback Books, August 2016), and A Thousand Paper Cranes (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming). Gravel Ghosts is her debut full-length poetry collection through Glass Lyre Press. She also has a children’s book forthcoming through Philomel Books. You can find her work at meganmerchant.wix.com/poet.

Poem: Thangka Painter by Megan Merchant

Sam Herschel Wein is a Chicago resident working in social services. He has been a fellow at Tent: Creative Writing for Nonfiction in Amherst, Massachusetts, and is currently the Editorial Assistant at Construction Magazine.  His work has appeared previously or is forthcoming in Mobius Magazine, New Plains Review, Salt Hill, and Twelfth House.

Poem: Sailing On Tuesday by Sam Herschel Wein

Shabnam Piryaei is the author of the novel FORWARD (MUSEUM Books, 2014) and the poetry collection ODE TO FRAGILE (Plain View Press, 2010). Her third book, NOTHING IS WASTED, is forthcoming. Her work has appeared in journals including Poets & Writers and The Florida Review, as well as anthologies such as “Others Will Enter the Gates” (Black Lawrence Press, 2015) and “Mapping Me: A Landscape of Women’s Stories” (Maymona Productions, 2014).

 

Shibnam is the recipient of the Poets & Writers Amy Award for Poetry and the Transport of the Aim Poetry Prize, as well as grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and the Vermont Studio Center. Additionally she has written and directed three award-winning poetry-films that have screened at film festivals and art galleries in the U.S. and internationally.

Poem: Solitude Layering Into Flight by Shabnam Piryaei

Meghan Sterling lives in Asheville, North Carolina with her husband and cat.  Sterling’s work has been featured or is forthcoming in Fredericksburg Art and Literary Review, Chagrin River Review, Lingerpost, Yellow Chair Review, Cladesong, WNC-Woman, Allegro Poetry Magazine, Clementine Poetry Journal, the Chronogram, Stone River Review, and others.

Poem: Naming by Meghan Sterling

Sandy Olson-Hill is a poet and prose writer. Recent publications include Kaleidoscope, 2016 Gulfport Poetry Anthology, Mandala, Red Paint Hill. Awards include Academy of American Poet’s Prize and Open Doors Short Fiction Award. Olson-Hill volunteers, has a houseful of rescued cats and considers this bliss.

http://www.redpainthill.com/#!issue-6-sandy-olson-hill/chdj


Poem: Summer in Wonderland by Sandy Olson-Hill

Katherine Liu attends Stevenson High School in Illinois. Her work appears in BOAAT and is forthcoming in Alexandria Quarterly.

Poem, Mooncake by Katherine Liu

Red Paint Hill Publishing is a nationally recognized independent publisher committed to the discovery and publication of culturally diverse poetry & art. We began publishing poetry manuscripts in 2013 in Clarksville, TN. Our books are distributed nationally & internationally through our website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and various brick and mortar retailers including Powell's Books.

Red Paint Hill Poetry Journal publishes literary art & exceptional voices every January, April, July & October. Our mission is to identify exceptionally talented emerging writers and artists, especially from diverse communities. Besides poetry, every issue also contains a music review, book reviews, interviews, and a column on poetry as craft.

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