ep. 15 - Francesca Bell by Rattle Poetry published on 2019-10-30T04:41:43Z 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 Genre Poetry