Issue 4.5A - Dialogue Submission Winners

This issue was released as part of our Dialogue Submission process in which a musical artist provides a piece of instrumental music to inspire new writing. For more information about this process, see Dialogue Submissions

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Dialogue Starter - "Heavy Pi"

​Michael Coolen is a pianist, composer, actor, performance artist, and writer living in Oregon. His works have been published in a variety of print and online journals. He is a published composer, with works performed around the world, including at Carnegie Hall, MoMA, and the Christie Gallery in New York.

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Artist Choice - "Pantheon by Numbers"

Lyndon Seitz is a poet, editor, and writer from Westfield, Massachusetts. He enjoys jazz, philosophy, science fiction, and most other things that can inspire wonder. He also writes a lot of poetry about flowers. He has been published in journals both online and in print.

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Editor Choice - "White Knuckle"

Jamie Houghton is a poet, musician and teaching artist living in Portland, Oregon. Her poetry has been featured online, most recently at Picaroon and Tribe Magazine‘s micro publication, Thief, and her book reviews can be found at High Desert Journal.

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Editor Choice - "Auditory Recessional"

Mary Ellen Talley’s poems have most recently been published in Kaleidoscope and Peacock Journal as well as in recent anthologies, The Doll Collection, All We Can Hold poems of motherhood and Raising Lilly Ledbetter Women Poets Occupy the Workspace.

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