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Fall/Winter 2009-10

 

Poetry

tom oristaglio
scott summers
cindy childress
tom rechtin
james b. nicola
debra rymer
doug draime
corey mesler
rebecca schumejda
chris crittenden
arlene ang
joey nicoletti
brad johnson
lorie allred
elizabeth kay
alexander russo
nissa lee
kenneth gurney
jessi lee gaylord
keith brighouse

Flash

ajay vishwanathan
ethel rohan
william "cully" bryant


Featured Artists
julie steiner

Steiner Interview
by Alex Nodopaka

Editors

Jennifer VanBuren
Jai Britton
Alex Nodopaka
Patrick Carrington


Mannequin Envy in memory of poet and artist Douglas Gamrath

 

 

 

Sara-Anne Beaulieu

 

She in Me: Worship

when will you be
a temple, she asks. I am
scars and stretch marks. loose skin over
hips. I’ve been sucked
and stuffed. thighs lumpy
peanuts in a sack.
inside, the stomach bleeds from
constant vomiting. nasal passages
are corroded from narcotic binging.
imagine that!

a baptism. the body
fluid as water. skin streaked
from each caressing finger. your blue
illuminating sky. to stop pulling
each strip of skin from the lip.

imagine that first taste
as Eve did. that succulent,
rough grain of apple.

 

 

sara anne

Bio:

Sara-Anne Beaulieu is a graduate of Roger Williams University (BFA, Creative Writing) and New England College (MFA, Poetry) and is currently adjunct faculty at Massachusetts College of Art and Fisher College, where she teaches rhetoric.

Beaulieu is the former Program Director of Literature and Poetry for Mad Poets Cafe, a monthly poetry night that was held at the Warwick Museum of Art and hosted by Boston poet Harris Gardner. While with Mad Poets Cafe, Beaulieu worked with poets such as Don Share, Forest Gander, and Franz Wright.

Beaulieu has completed a manuscript and has publications by The New York Writer Coalition (Plum Biscuit) Tattooed Highway, My Favorite Bullet, and is published in the anthology In Our Own Words.

 

 

 

Mannequin Envy no longer accepting submissions of poetry, art or flash fiction.

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