Simone Muench, Jennifer Grotz & Quraysh Ali Lansana Triptych
Elegy for the Unsaid, Try, Burdens



Jennifer Grotz is the author of Cusp, which was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as winner of the 2002 Bakeless Prize for Poetry, and Not Body, a limited edition letterpress chapbook. A recipient of numerous grants and scholarships, she is former Associate Director of Portland's Mountain Writers Series.

Quraysh Ali Lansana is author of the poetry collection Southside Rain, among others. His honors include the 1999 Henry Blakely Award, presented by Gwendolyn Brooks, and the 1999 Wallace W. Douglas Distinguished Service Award. Lansana is founder and managing editor of Nappyhead Press, and Director of the Gwendolyn Brook's Center at Chicago State.

Simone Muench's poems were described by James Tate as volatile explosives, circling beauty, while Anne Waldman says Muench's poetry is musical assured, seductive displaying a highly engaged imagination. She is author of The Air Lost in Breathing, and her chapbook Notebook. Knife. Mentholatum is published by New Michigan Press. Muench placed first in The Poetry Center's 9th Annual Juried Reading.

Visual Artist: KC Clarke
Design: Mary-Jo Mostowy and KC Clarke

This two color broadside is printed with metallic ink.