The Mid-Atlantic Review is a literary magazine published by the non profit organization Day Eight. The Mid-Atlantic Review was published under the name Bourgeon from 2007-2023.
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The magazine Bourgeon became The Mid-Atlantic Review in October, 2023.
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The Mid-Atlantic Review is a project of the nonprofit Day Eight. If you like the publication, please visit the Day Eight website and make a donation. Past support has been provided by private and foundation donors including the National Endowment for the Arts, the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the Humanities Council of Greater Washington.
MID-ATLANTIC REVIEW EDITORS 2027 / 2028:
Serena M. Agusto-Cox (editor) is a Suffolk University graduate, writes more vigorously than she did in her college poetry seminars. Her day job continues to feed the starving artist, and her poems can be read in Beginnings Magazine, LYNX, Muse Apprentice Guild, The Harrow, Poems Niederngasse, Avocet, Pedestal Magazine, and Mothers Always Write, among others. An essay also appears in H.L. Hix’s Made Priceless and at Modern Creative Life, as does a Q&A on book marketing through blogs in Midge Raymond’s Everyday Book Marketing. She also runs the book review blog, Savvy Verse & Wit, and is the founder of Poetic Book Tours.
Jeffrey Banks (advisory editor), poetically known as “Big Homey”, received his Masters in Divinity at Howard University and currently serves as President of the Alumni Association. He has performed with major entertainment figures and is the recipient of artist grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. A multi-year finalist in the DC Poet Project, he is also a poet educator and a fundraising and events consultant to non-profits. He co-edited, with Maritza Rivera, the afro-latin poetry anthology, Diaspora Café, D.C, published in 2022 by Day Eight.
Anne Becker (editor) is author of three books of poetry, Human Animal, The Good Body, and The Transmutation Notebooks: Poems in the Voices of Charles and Emma Darwin. She was Poet Laureate of Takoma Park, MD, for four years and then, Poet-in-Residence at Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center. Her poems printed on her own handmade paper have been exhibited in the US and Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. She is a poetry editor of the Mid-Atlantic Review, an arts journal based in Washington, DC. Always interested in collaborating with other artists, most recently, commissioned by Carl Banner, director of Washington Musica Viva, she wrote a long poem “The Jamie Raskin Oratorio,” which was set to music by composer Noam Faingold. This premiered September, 2024, with Carl Banner on piano and Chris Royal playing trumpet accompanying her reading.
Robert Bettmann (managing editor) has contributed essays and features to Huffington Post, OvationTV.com, Washington City Paper, The DC Line, and others, and is program manager of Day Eight, a non-profit producer and publisher dedicated to participating in the healing of the world through the arts. He is author of the book Somatic Ecology: Somatics, Nature, Humanity and the Human Body (VDM, 2009) and editor of a number of books of poetry. He is founder and managing editor of the Mid-Atlantic Review.
Rebecca Bishophall (editor) is co-author of the poetry book, Breaking the Blank, with Dwayne Lawson-Brown, published by Day Eight in 2022. Rebecca attended Trinity University graduating with a major in Communications. She has performed at Spit Dat open mic, the Afrocentric Book Expo, the Capitol Hill Book, the Gaithersburg Book Festival, and others, and works in member services for a non-profit organization. A loving mother who enjoys rainstorms, ramen, and romcoms, she can be found writing, reading fiction novels, and singing along to soft rock.
Regie Cabico (editor) is a Filipino American poet and spoken word artist. He has been featured on two seasons of Def Poetry Jam on HBO (produced by Russell Simmons) and has been called the Lady Gaga of spoken word. He won top prizes in the 1993, 1994, and 1997 National Poetry Slams. His poetry appears in over 30 anthologies including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café, Spoken Word Revolution and Slam. Regie is recipient of three New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships for Poetry and Multi-Disciplinary Performance and directs CapFire Spoken Word Arts in Washington, D.C. His first book, A Rabbit in Search of a Rolex, was published by Day Eight November, 2023.
Carolivia Herron (advisory editor) is a writer of adult and children’s literature, a professor of Classics at Howard University, and host of the radio show, Epic City, on Takoma Radio. She is the author of a number of books, including, Thereafter Johnnie, a semi-autobiographical portrayal of African-American life, the critically acclaimed picture book, Nappy Hair, and the children’s book, Always an Olivia. She has written several plays and librettos, including, Let Freedom Sing: The Story of Marian Anderson.
Christopher Jon Heuer (advisory editor) is the author of Bug: Deaf Identity and Internal Revolution and All Your Parts Intact: Poems. He is a professor of English at Gallaudet University and has published short stories and poems in several magazines and anthologies. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife Amy and son Jack.
Jennifer Freya Helgeson’s (editor) first book of poetry, The Silhouette of the Day Before, is forthcoming in 2027 from Finishing Line Press. Her poetry has appeared in online and print outlets including, Plants and Poetry, Windward Review, Poem Alone, The Woodside Review, Tension Literary, Pacific Review, Maryland Bards 2026 Anthology, Mid-Atlantic Review, Two Thirds North, Myo, The Khaotic Good, A Work of Art, the Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal, Diutay Review, and others. Her writing explores themes of memory, loss, nature, and human resilience. She holds a PhD in Environmental and Developmental Economics and has authored several peer-reviewed publications, co-edited textbooks, and published in several media outlets.
Holly Karapetkova (editor) is the Poet Laureate Emerita of Arlington County and the recipient of a 2022 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. She is the author of two books of poetry, Words We Might One Day Say, winner of the 2010 Washington Writers’ Publishing House Poetry Award, and Towline, winner of the 2016 Vern Rutsala Poetry Contest from Cloudbank Books. She is also the author of over 20 books for children. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in English and Comparative Literature and teaches in the Department of Literature and Languages at Marymount University.
Gregory Luce (editor) is the author of the chapbooks Signs of Small Grace (Pudding House Publications) and Drinking Weather (Finishing Line Press), and the collection Memory and Desire (Sweatshoppe Publications). His poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, and in the anthologies Living in Storms (Eastern Washington University Press) and Bigger Than They Appear (Accents Publishing). He lives in Washington, D.C. where he works for the National Geographic Society. He is the 2014 winner of the Larry Neal Writers Award, awarded by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
Maritza Rivera (advisory editor) is a Puerto Rican poet and Army veteran who has lived in Rockville, MD since 1994. She has been writing poetry for over fifty years and is the creator of a short form of poetry called Blackjack. She is the publisher of Casa Mariposa Press. Maritza is the author of About You; A Mother’s War, written during her son’s two tours in Iraq; Baker’s Dozen; and Twenty-One: Blackjack Poems. Her work appears in numerous literary magazines and anthologies and is featured in the public arts project, “Meet Me at the Triangle” in Wheaton, MD.