Tidal Basin Review
Featured Visual Artist
Ron Davis is a fat vegetarian; co-founder, poetry editor, and art director for Mythium Literary Journal; and a co-owner of The Wild Fig Books. a fervent daydreamer, he creates visual art and abstract poetry under the pseudonym "upfromsumdirt." can't sing for shit. is a rabble-rouser in his own head and a grand speechifier; "wordy" or "worrisome" his mama says... please, don't get him started.
Centered Feature - Series Poet
Julianna McCarthy lives above the snow line, with a dog and two cats in the Los Padres National Forest. She is the 2009 The Bridge First Prize winner and a Schieble Sonnet Prize winner, a Pushcart Prize Nominee, and a Pablo Neruda Prize finalist. Her poems have appeared in The Antioch Review, Alehouse, The New Southerner Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, Best Poem, and others. Her chapbook, Photoplay, was released in 2009. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry from New England College. READ HER INTERVIEW