Francesca Bell was born in Spokane, Washington, into a family with deep, hardscrabble roots in the Northwest. Her poems and translations appear in many magazines including ELLE, Mid-American Review, New Ohio Review, North American Review, and Prairie Schooner. She’s also appeared in many issues of Rattle, was the featured conversation in issue #56, and won the 2014 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor. She is the co-translator of Palestinian poet Shatha Abu Hnaish’s collection, A Love That Hovers Like a Bedeviling Mosquito (Dar Fadaat, 2017), and the author of Bright Stain (Red Hen Press, 2019). For more information, visit her website: https://francescabellpoet.com

Prologue:

Amy Miller

Ruth Bavetta

Caitlin Gildrien

Epilogue open mic:

Melinda Jane (The Poet Mj)

Joy Colter

Stephen Roberts

Kevin Lemaster

James Snay

Emilio Peurta

Elizabeth S. Wolf