February’s a cold, cold month, but Rage and Robert generate enough heat in their poems to melt through even the thickest ice. Cozy up and listen to these poets transport you to somewhere lush & gorgeous.

Rage Hezekiah is a New England based poet and educator, who earned her MFA from Emerson College. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, The MacDowell Colony, and The Ragdale Foundation, and is the recipient of the Saint Botolph Foundation's Emerging Artists Award. In addition to appearing in numerous journals, such as the Sycamore Review, West Branch, Diode, and Salamander, her poems have been anthologized, co-translated, and published internationally. Rage’s first collection, Stray Harbor, is available from Finishing Line Press. (Read Michael’s review of Stray Harbor, first published in the Lily Poetry Journal.)

Rage’s website is https://www.ragehezekiah.com/

Robert Carr is the author of Amaranth, published in 2016 by Indolent Books and The Unbuttoned Eye, a full-length 2019 collection from 3: A Taos Press. Among other publications his poetry appears in the American Journal of Poetry, Massachusetts Review, Rattle, Shenandoah and Tar River Poetry. Robert is a poetry editor with Indolent Books and recently retired from a career as Deputy Director for the Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

Robert’s website is https://www.robertcarr.org/

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