Volume 35, Issue 1
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Featuring work byPOETRY Darius Atefat-Peckham • Colin Bailes • Brian Bender • Daniel Biegelson • Shannon Castleton • Christopher Citro • Patrice Boyer Claeys • Lynn Domina • Anna Girgenti • Alexandria Hall • Lisa Higgs • Lauren Hilger • Dionissios Kollias • Meara Levezow • Jennifer Lothrigel • Angie Macri • Al Maginnes • Ben McClendon • Martha McCollough • Freesia McKee • A. Molotkov • Kell Nelson • Dwaine Rieves • Amy Seifried • Katherine Smith • Pui Ying Wong FICTION James Braun • Janice Deal • Tammy Delatorre • Maura Stanton • Terry Thomas NONFICTION Rebecca McClanahan • Katherine Schaefer • William Thompson ART Khari Turner
Jennifer Lothrigel
Fragrant bee bodies
dance a map to fertile flowers.
Nectar traded for pollen,
returned to hive,
passed from mouth to mouth,
until it becomes honey.
I want this kind of telluric ecstasy,
the unkept asters, the lure of
available petals,
my body covered in scented offerings.
So I was thinking of
shedding all my other selves –
I was thinking of rose on my ankles
and lily on my breast.
I was thinking of the rapturous buzz
of returning to the hive,
sticky and full.
Between 2009 and 2015 was my struggle and a big part of why I work so hard to make work now. I wasn’t in school I was working a minimum wage retail job and switching between warehouse jobs, I had cheerleading and working for the NBA as entertainment some nights but life was stale and unfulfilling, except for the summer. Growing up I was in many programs, the most important being a nonprofit called Lake Valley Camp. This camp changed my life, taking trips in the summer of 2003 as a camper to working there until 2014 as Art Director. Camp is a big part of my long term goals now. I want to start an organization that specializes in giving back efforts to young artist and creating murals in low income environments to promote community health, pride, and clean neighborhoods, while trying to fight gentrification of these areas. Being an artist is so much about giving and I feel it’s so important to give back to the community. Read more >
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Zone 3 Press sponsors two book competitions: The Zone 3 Press First Book Award in Poetry and The Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award. Winners receive $1,000 and publication of their book, as well as an invitation to give a joint reading at Austin Peay State University with the contest judge.
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Featuring work byPOETRY Darius Atefat-Peckham • Colin Bailes • Brian Bender • Daniel Biegelson • Shannon Castleton • Christopher Citro • Patrice Boyer Claeys • Lynn Domina • Anna Girgenti • Alexandria Hall • Lisa Higgs • Lauren Hilger • Dionissios Kollias • Meara Levezow • Jennifer Lothrigel • Angie Macri • Al Maginnes • Ben McClendon • Martha McCollough • Freesia McKee • A. Molotkov • Kell Nelson • Dwaine Rieves • Amy Seifried • Katherine Smith • Pui Ying Wong FICTION James Braun • Janice Deal • Tammy Delatorre • Maura Stanton • Terry Thomas NONFICTION Rebecca McClanahan • Katherine Schaefer • William Thompson ART Khari Turner
Jennifer Lothrigel
Fragrant bee bodies
dance a map to fertile flowers.
Nectar traded for pollen,
returned to hive,
passed from mouth to mouth,
until it becomes honey.
I want this kind of telluric ecstasy,
the unkept asters, the lure of
available petals,
my body covered in scented offerings.
So I was thinking of
shedding all my other selves –
I was thinking of rose on my ankles
and lily on my breast.
I was thinking of the rapturous buzz
of returning to the hive,
sticky and full.
Between 2009 and 2015 was my struggle and a big part of why I work so hard to make work now. I wasn’t in school I was working a minimum wage retail job and switching between warehouse jobs, I had cheerleading and working for the NBA as entertainment some nights but life was stale and unfulfilling, except for the summer. Growing up I was in many programs, the most important being a nonprofit called Lake Valley Camp. This camp changed my life, taking trips in the summer of 2003 as a camper to working there until 2014 as Art Director. Camp is a big part of my long term goals now. I want to start an organization that specializes in giving back efforts to young artist and creating murals in low income environments to promote community health, pride, and clean neighborhoods, while trying to fight gentrification of these areas. Being an artist is so much about giving and I feel it’s so important to give back to the community. Read more >
