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Artist: Emily Legleitner
Poet: Jennifer Metsker
Poem: Hypergraphia and Other Failed Attempts at Paradise

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Artist: Carolyn Ingram
Poet: Nancy Eimers
Poem: The Sun Behind Me, I Am Reborn as a Shadow

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Nancy Eimers

Nancy Eimers is the author of four poetry collections: Oz, (Carnegie Mellon, 2011), A Grammar to Waking (Carnegie Mellon, 2006), No Moon (Purdue Univ. Press, 1997) and Destroying Angel (Wesleyan Univ. Press , 1991). Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines including Field, Gettysburg Review, Seattle Review, Paris Review, The Nation, Antioch Review, North American Review, Triquarterly, and Poetry Northwest, and in numerous anthologies, including the 2011 Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of Small Presses Poets of the New Century, The Wesleyan Tradition, Writing Poems and Best American Poetry 1996.  She has been the recipient of a Nation “Discovery” Award, a Whiting Writers Award, and two NEA Fellowships.  

Jennifer Metsker

Jennifer Metsker is the author of the poetry collection Hypergraphia and Other Failed Attempts at Paradise, which won the Editor’s Prize from New Issues Press. She studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received her MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan. Her poetry has appeared in The Southern Review, Beloit, Rhino, Birdfeast, Gulf Coast, The Cream City Review and other journals. Her audio poetry has been featured on the BBC Radio’s Short Cuts. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she is the Writing Coordinator at the Stamps School of Art and Design.