In the Current with Tayor Schaefer Issue Three
Hello dear readers, and welcome!
In our third issue, which went live in September of 2019, our contributors wrote about Pulitzer Prize winners, Medusa, melting into the desert, and apocalypse— but they also wrote about baths, babies on airplanes, buses, kitchens, the deer in their backyards— they wrote about the everyday mundanities (and insanities) of our lives.
We loved this issue, as we love all of our issues, and if you enjoyed it too, you can check out what our contributors have been doing since being published with us!
Sarah Barber had poems published in Southern Poetry Review and Copper Nickel.
Lilia Dobos had poems taken by The Quaker and Red Flag Poetry. She was also accepted to the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, and will be starting her PhD in the fall! Congrats Lilia!
Jeffrey Bean was published in The Laurel Review.
Benjamin Cutler was published widely, in such places as River Heron Review, Psaltery & Lyre, Orange Blossom Review, Under a Warm Green Linden, Appalachian Review and others! In addition to these publications, Benjamin’s poetry also placed first for the North Carolina Poetry Society Mary Ruffin Poole American Heritage Award, as well as placing in the Caldwell Arts 2020 Regional Poetry Contest, with one poem in third place and one poem winning an honorable mention. His chapbook was also a finalist for Beloit’s Chad Walsh Chapbook Series contest for 2021.
Kimberly Grey published a new book of poetry titled Systems for the Future Feeling, with Persea in 2020. Congrats Kimberly!
Brett Harrington had poems published in 2 Hawks Quarterly and Ligeia Magazine.
Kimberly Dawn Stuart had three poems published in Anthropocene.
Justin Runge had poems published in Sons and Daughters, Poet Lore, Sweet Tree Review, Sweet Lit, and Cobalt Review.
Will Cordeiro had poems published in AGNI, Cider Press, and Thrush.
Kelli Russell Agodon had poems published in The Night Heron Barks. She also has a new poetry collection, Dialogues with Rising Tides, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press this year! Congrats Kelli! Feel free to check out what she’s working on over at her press Two Sylvias Press.
Romana Iorga had poems published in Poet Lore, Folio, Lunch Ticket, Quiddity, Thin Air Magazine, Mom Egg Review, Poemeleon, Moria and Cordite Poetry Review.
Jeff Hardin has a new poetry collection, Generosity for a Later Generation, forthcoming in 2021 from Seven Kitchens Press. Congrats Jeff!
Karen Rigby had poems published in Grain, Banshee, Jet Fuel Review, The Journal, Revolute, and The /tƐmz/ Review.
Barbara Daniels had poems published in The American Journal of Poetry, Isacoustic, Queen Mob’s Teachouse, Belle Ombre, Panoply, Spank the Carp, and Clementine Unbound. She also has a new book, Talk to the Lioness, that just came out from Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press.
Adam D. Weeks had poetry nominated for the 2020 Best of Net Award and the 2020 Pushcart Prize. He also had poems published in Poet Lore, Puerto Del Sol, Ninth Letter, Slipstream Press, Broadkill Review and Runestone.
Seth Jani was published in Black Fox Literary Magazine.
Lauren Camp published a new poetry collection, Took House, with Tupelo Press (2020). Congrats Lauren!
Stephen Scott Whitaker had poems published in Body Literature and The Blue Nib.
Dani Putney had poetry published in The Racket, Alien, Figure 1, Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art, Sons and Daughters, The Fourth River, Dovecote Magazine, Thin Air Magazine, Glass: A Journal of Poetry and Rappahannock Review. They were also interviewed by Rappahannock Review for the same issue. In addition to all these publications, Dani also has a new poetry collection, Salamat sa Intersectionality, forthcoming from Okay Donkey Press. Congrats Dani!
Prem Sylvester had work nominated for the Orison Anthology, and several of his poems were published in The Night Heron Barks and The Selkie.
Lee Patterson had poems published in Anthropocene and Heavy Feather Review.
Kathleen Winter was interviewed by Serena Agusto Cox for 32 Poems. Her poetry was published in a recent issue of Copper Nickel, and placed third for the 2020 Palette Poetry Prize. Kathleen also has a new poetry collection, Transformer, out now from Word Works Press.
Haley Winans is now a first year MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Memphis, where she serves as a poetry reader for The Pinch Journal. Go Haley! You can check out their new issues here. While being busy reading, she has also found time to submit and recently had a poem published in Red Cedar Review.
Alice B. Fogel had poems published in The Inflectionist Review, as well as an interview for the same issue. She also won the 2019 Guy Owen Prize from Southern Poetry Review for her poem “Saturn.” Congrats Alice!
Josh Bettinger had poetry published in Poached Hare.
As always, our contributors have been doing amazing work and making amazing art. Check back in with us when we review the accomplishments of our contributors from Issue 4!
See you soon,
Taylor