Poem of the Week – Jill McKenna Reed
Sheila Squillante October 17, 2014
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Jill McKenna Reed is a poet, writing instructor, and beekeeper living in Portland, Oregon. She is co-editor of “Winged: New Writing on Bees,” an anthology of modern literary writing, forthcoming in October of 2014. Jill earned her MFA in Creative Writing Poetry at Portland State University. She is a native of the Chicago area.
Sheila Squillante is a poet and essayist and the author of three chapbooks of poetry: A Woman Traces the Shoreline (Dancing Girl Press, 2011), Women Who Pawn Their Jewelry (Finishing Line Press, 2012), and In This Dream of My Father (Seven Kitchens Press, 2014). Her first full-length collection of poems is due out with Tiny Hardcore Press in 2014. She has published work widely in print and online journals like Brevity, The Rumpus, No Tell Motel, MiPoesias, Phoebe, Hobart, Barrelhouse, Cream City Review, TYPO, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. She serves as editor-in-chief of The Fourth River Literary Journal, and associate editor at PANK. She works at Chatham University, in Pittsburgh, where she is associate director of the MFA program in creative writing and assistant professor of English.
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