Robert Eric Shoemaker

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Robert Eric Shoemaker is a poet-playwright, educator, and theatre artist. Eric is an MFA Candidate in Naropa University’s Creative Writing & Poetics program at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. His poetry and plays have been featured in Columbia Journal, Beats: A Naropan Periodical, Mosaic at University of California Riverside, Tooth N’ Nail, Rollick, Literature Emitting Diodes, Chicago After Dark, Thought Notebook, Baseball Bard, Verde Qué Te Quiero Verde, and his debut collection 30 Days Dry from Thought Collection Publishing, which is available on various platforms including Amazon. Eric’s second book of poetry, We Knew No Mortality, is forthcoming from In Extenso Press, with a third book of hybrid work, Ca’Venezia and other tales, on the way from Partial Press, both in 2017. His journalism has been published in Turnout: A Poetic Journalism Zine, Beats: A Naropan Periodical (where Eric is founding editor), Boulder Weekly, Newcity, Evanston Now, Fra Noi Magazine, Artisan Magazine, Printeresting, VAM, and through the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Campus Consortium Fellowship, which sent Eric to Venice to cover Artisanship and Climate Change.

Eric is the author of the duet musical PLATH/HUGHES, which was awarded the 2014 Olga and Paul Menn Foundation Prize for Best Play and has been produced throughout Chicago and in New York. His project “Lorca In America” was awarded a 2015 DCASE Individual Artist Program grant from the City of Chicago, and featured the production of his original translation, Bernarda Alba and Her House, at Redtwist Theatre. Other productions of Eric’s plays have been staged by Poetry Is Productions, where Eric is Artistic Director.

Eric is a graduate with honors from the University of Chicago, where he was Artistic Director of the Classical Entertainment Society. Follow his work at reshoemaker.com.

Phoebe Farris

Documentation of various demonstrations in Washington, D.C., to keep our waters safe.

Above: Dakota Access Pipeline protest, March 2016

Above: Indigenous women at Women’s March, January 21, 2017

Above: People’s Climate March, April 29, 2017

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Phoebe Farris has six intertwined careers, stretching the concept of interdisciplinary and transnational research. She is the arts editor of Cultural Survival Quarterly, a licensed CCR/DUNS art curator/dealer, a registered art therapist, documentary photographer, professor and author.

As an award-winning independent curator, photographer, author, professor and art therapist, Farris explores issues involving race, gender, indigenous sovereignty, Native American studies, the environment, peace and social justice from multiple perspectives. Her books, Voices of Color: Art and Society in the Americas, Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas and Art Therapy and Psychotherapy: Blending Two Therapeutic Approaches, create dialogues about the intersections of social activism and the arts.

A member of the Powhatan-Renape Nation with expertise on contemporary Native American art and culture, Farris has consulted for the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of the American Indian and the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian Art and taught at the Corcoran School of Arts.

Please see additional photos of polluted waters in an earlier Water, Water blog post ─ https://waterpoetryprose.wordpress.com/2015/02/07/phoebe-farris/ ─ from her Absegami series, photos taken on the Atlantic City shoreline after Hurrican Sandy in 2012.