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Winter in America (Again): Poets Respond to the 2024 Election
Celebrate the release of Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to the 2024 Election, an urgent and moving anthology featuring voices that capture this moment in history. Experience readings from contributing poets as they explore democracy, resilience, and the road ahead. Books available for purchase and signing. Don’t miss this inspiring gathering of literary resistance and hope!
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Dane Cervine’s recent books of poetry include DEEP TRAVEL – At Home in the [Burning] World (Saddle Road Press), The World Is God’s Language (Sixteen Rivers Press), Earth Is a Fickle Dancer (Main Street Rag), and The Gateless Gate – Polishing the Moon Sword (Saddle Road Press). Dane’s poems have won awards from Adrienne Rich, Tony Hoagland, the Atlanta Review, Caesura, and been nominated for multiple Pushcarts. His work appears in The SUN, the Hudson Review, TriQuarterly, Poetry Flash, Catamaran, Miramar, Rattle, Sycamore Review, Pedestal Magazine, among others. Dane lives in Santa Cruz, California. Visit his website at: https://danecervine.typepad.com/
Julia Chiapella’s poetry has appeared in Edison Literary Review, I-70 Review, The MacGuffin, Midwest Quarterly, OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters, Pirene’s Fountain, and West Branch among others. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she is the retired director of the Young Writers Program, which she established in 2012 and includes the installation Chamber of Heart and Mystery. She received the Gail Rich Award for creative contributions to Santa Cruz County and has taught as both a classroom teacher and a writing specialist. She is a member of The Hive Poetry Collective.
Robert Lashley was a 2016 Jack Straw Fellow, Artist Trust Fellow, and a nominee for a Stranger Genius Award. His books include Green River Valley (Blue Cactus Press, 2021), UpSouth (Small Doggies Press, 2017), and The Homeboy Songs (Small Doggies Press, 2014). His poetry has appeared in The Seattle Review of Books, NAILED, Poetry Northwest, McSweeney’s, and The Cascadia Review, and recently, The Cascadia Field Guide, which has been on the bestseller list for 40 weeks. In 2019, Entropy Magazine named The Homeboy Songs one of the 25 essential books to come out of Seattle. In 2024, his Novel, I Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer, was selected as a finalist for a Washington State Book Award. In 2025, he was selected as for the Gallager-Lilley fellow, by the Port Townsend Writers Conference.
Dion O'Reilly is the author of three poetry collections: Sadness of the Apex Predator, a finalist for the Steel Toe Book Prize and the Ex Ophidia Prize; Ghost Dogs, winner of The Independent Press Award for Poetry, Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer Poetry Award, and runner-up for the Catamaran Poetry Prize. Her third book, Limerence, was finalist for the John Pierce Chapbook Competition and is now available from Floating Bridge Press. Her work appears in Cincinnati Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Sun, and Rattle. She is a podcaster, leads poetry workshops, and is starting a new poetry journal about altered states and the lyric moment. She splits her time between a ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains and a residence in Bellingham, Washington. dionoreilly.com
Poet/interviewer Paul E. Nelson founded the Cascadia Poetics LAB & the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Books include DaySong Miracle (Past 62) (2024); Cascadian Prophets (Interviews 1999-2023) (2024); Haibun de la Serna (2022); A Time Before Slaughter/Pig War: & Other Songs of Cascadia (2020); American Prophets (interviews 1994-2012)(2018); American Sentences (2015, 2021); A Time Before Slaughter (2009). Co-Editor of Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 Election (2025); Cascadian Zen Volume I: Bioregional Writings on Cascadia Here and Now (2023, Watershed Press), Make it True meets Medusario (2019) (Spanish & English) and other anthologies. He’s Literary Executor for the late poet Sam Hamill and lives in Rainier Beach, alongside dxwwuqweb Creek.
Roxi Power is a poet, performer, and publisher whose book, The Songs That Objects Would Sing was published in 2023. She co-edited Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 Election (Carbonation Press, 2025) and founded the trans-genre anthology series, Viz. Inter-Arts, at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she teaches. Roxi podcasts and organizes readings for The Hive Poetry Collective on KSQD 90.7 FM, Santa Cruz. She performs Live Film Narration, or “Neo-Benshi,” around the country. She received an AWP Intro Award and has been published in American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Puerto del Sol, Seneca Review, etc. She received an MFA in Poetry from Cornell University.
Matt Trease is a poet, artist, teacher, and astrologer. He serves on the board and teaches poetics through the Cascadia Poetics Lab, co-curates the Margin Shift reading series, serves as the poetry editor f
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