Meat and Bone - Sandra Feen

Sandra Feen is a member of the poetry troupe Concrete 

Wink, with Rikki Santer and Chuck Salmons.  She has been a 

featured reader in venues in and out of Ohio for over 30 years 

as well as a former co-facilitator for several Columbus, Ohio 

reading series. In addition, she performs work by Holocaust 

writers in Susan Millard Schwarz’s Anahata Music Project. A 

member of the Ohio Poetry Association, Bistro Poets, former 

associate editor of Pudding Magazine and former director of 

the Ohio Poetry Therapy Writers’ Group, Sandy has a BFA in 

Creative Writing and a BS in English Education from Bowling 

Green State University, as well as an MA in Literature from 

Wright State University. She was one of twelve teachers selected 

for a National Endowment of the Arts first “Change Course” 

program through Wright State University’s Institute on Writing 

and Its Teaching. Her most recent publications include 2019’s 

The Gasconade Review’s Storm A’Comin’! and The National 

Beat Poetry Foundation, Inc. We Are Beat 2019 Anthology. 

A collection of her poems was named finalist for The Lascaux 

Review’s 2018 Lascaux Poetry Prize. Her book, Fragile Capacities: 

School Poems (NightBallet Press 2018) — nominated for the 

Ohioana Book Award—highlights her 32-year teaching career 

in an urban school system.The poem “Palms Monday” was 

nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Grove City, Ohio.