| Nadya Aisenberg. | Poetry Porch featured poet. |
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Longtime gardener for the PBS television series, The Victory Garden. His sonnets have appeared in 14 by 14, Contemporary Sonnet, Sonnetto Poesia, and many other print and electronic journals. |
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Born in Johannesburg in 1949 and educated at the University of the Witwatersrand and Boston University. Has worked as a teacher, in bridge construction and in a puppet theatre. His book of poems, Vanishing Ground, was published by Quartz Press, Republic of South Africa. He teaches at Austin College in Sherman, Texas. |
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Works in the student office at a secondary school in Dunedin, New Zealand. Her poems have appeared in journals and ezines, including Deep South, Takahe (NZ), Cadenza, Orbis (UK), Snorkel (Aus), and RHP (USA). With assistance from PitWR (UK) she is coordinating Poems in the Waiting Room in New Zealand, an arts in health project. See www.pitwrnz.blogspot.com. |
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Member of the Mulberry Poets and Writers Association (MPWA) in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he has contributed to the publications of this group for over 20 years. He has been reciting "The Railroader" at the Art Festival on Public Square and other venues. His poems have appeared in Get Verse: Valley Poetry Anthology. His poetry and essays have appeared in several literary magazines, such as Pivot, Digges' Choice, The Endless Mountain Review, and also in The Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society. |
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Graduate of Radcliffe College with an MSW from NYU, she a long-time journalist who has studied with Rachel Hadas, Sharon Dolan, and Jeanne Marie Beaumont in New York. |
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Poetry Porch featured poet. |
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Retired English teacher who teaches poetry in Maine. |
| Harriet Malnate Bonish. | Studied writing poetry with Ottione Riccio at the Boston Center for Adult Education, Harold Bond at Cambridge Adult Education Center, and at Quincy College. Her poem, "A Visit with My Muse" was first runner-up in the Emily Dickinson Contest through Soundings East at Salem State College in 1990. |
| Shaune Bornholdt. | Grew up in rural Pennsylvania and now lives in Manhattan, where she is a psychologist who works with children. Her poems have appeared in American Arts Quarterly, Hanging Loose, The Schuylkill Valley Journal, and the online journals Podium and Umbrella. |
| Paul Breslin. | Retired principal of Sterling Junior High School, Quincy, Mass. His sonnet, "When Last I Saw You," won third prize in the Langston Hughes Poetry Awards of Georgia State Poetry Society. |
| Kim Bridgford. | Directs the Poetry Conference at West Chester University, Pennsylvania, and the online magazine for women, Mezzo Cammin. Her book In the Extreme: Sonnets about World Records, published by Aralia Press, received the Donald Justice Award at West Chester University of Pennsylvania in 2007. |
| Bob Brooks. | Poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner. His chapbook was published by Pudding House. He lives with his wife in Concord, Mass. |
| Julia Budenz. | Poetry Porch featured poet. |
| Jennifer Burch. | Holds a B.A. in Fine Art from Amherst College and an M.A. in Literature from the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. Her first book, No Matter, was released by The Winged Way (September 2008). Jennifer has published work in Article, Free Verse, Guernica, Left Facing Bird, Sal Mimeo, and Verse, and is included in Green Integer’s forthcoming anthology, The Gertrude Stein Awards. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. |
| Michael Burch. | Editor of The Hypertexts. |
| Pat Callan. | Playwright and poet who won the Loren Taylor Contest for Papa's House, a day in the Samuel Clemens family while their house was under construction. Her chapbook, Out of the Case: Instruments on the Analyst's Couch (the psychiatric problems of musical instruments) was published in 2008. In collaboration with composter Yoko Nakatani, she wrote the narration for The Adventures of John Manjiro, a suite of piano pieces. A graduate of the College of Music at Boston University, she as a choral director and voice coach before becoming a writer. |
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Poet and essayist whose work has appeared in Poetry, Blue Collar Review, Midwest Poetry Review, American Poets and Poetry, and Bibliophilos. Currently her sonnet sequence "The World's Last Rose: Sonnets for the Prince of Twilight" is featured on The Hypertexts. She edits a poetry magazine, The Neovictorian/ Cochlea. |
| Rafael Campo. | Practicing physician and lecturer at Harvard Medical School. His most recent volume of poetry is The Enemy, Duke University Press 2007. He has published two volumes of poetry, The Other Man Was Me, Arte Publico Press, 1994, and What the Body Told, Duke University Press, 1996, and a book of essays, The Poetry of Healing, W. W. Norton, 1997. Visit his Web site at www.rafaelcampo.com. |
| Barbara Siegel Carlson. | Her poems and translations have appeared in NOR, Mid-American Review, Agni, and others. She was Discovery poet for Cutthroat in 2010. Her translation (with Ana Jelnikar) of poems by Slovene poet Srecko Kosovel, LOOK BACK, LOOK AHEAD was published in 2010 by Ugly Duckling Presse. |
| David Castleman. | Poems, tales, imaginative essays have appeared in hundreds of small magazines on both sides of the Atlantic. |
| Llyn Clague. | Lives and works in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. He has published over 100 poems in a wide range of journals, including in New York Quarterly, Atlanta Review, Wisconsin Review, California Quarterly, The Iconoclast, Ibbetson Street, Mobius, and other magazines. His fifth book, Glass Door Knob, was published by Main Street Publishing. For five years he was co-Managing Editor of Inprint. |
| Terese Coe. | Poems and translations have recently appeared in The Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, New American Writing, The Cincinnati Review, 32 Poems, and Smartish Pace in the US, and Agenda, Orbis, and Poetry Nottingham, among others, in the UK. Her book, The Everyday Uncommon, won a Word Press publication prize in 2005. |
| Helen Degen Cohen. | Awards include NEA in poetry, first prize in Stand Magazine (fiction), Illinois Arts Council Award and Fellowship, Indiana Writers Conference Award. Co-founder and editor of Rhino: The Poetry Forum. |
| Martha Collins. | Directs creative writing at Oberlin College. She is author of What Words Can Do (Sheep Meadow Press) and has translated the poetry of Nguyen Quang Thieu in the collection titled The Women Carry River Water. Her most recent book of poems is Blue Front (Gray Wolf Press). |
| William Conelly. | Currently resides in England as a tutor in the Open Studies Program at Warwick University. |
| Miles Coon. | Has taken workshops run by Susan Mitchell, Thomas Lux, and more. |
| Maryann Corbett. | Co-winner of the 2009 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. Her poems, essays, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in River Styx, Atlanta Review, The Evansville Review, Christianity and Literature, Measure, The Dark Horse, First Things, The Barefoot Muse, Unsplendid, and other journals in print and online. Her chapbook Gardening in a Time of War was published in 2007 by Pudding House. |
| Eleanor Cory. | A composer of concert music, she has set many contemporary poets to music. Her poems have appeared in Iambs and Trochees. She teaches at Mannes College of Music and the City University of New York. See her Web site at www.eleanorcory.com. |
| Wesli Court. | "Wesli Court" is the anagram pen-name for Lewis Turco. Wesli has published four books of poetry and a children's picture story book, MURGATROYD AND MABEL, over the last three decades, the most recent of which is THE COLLECTED LYRICS OF LEWIS TURCO / WESLI COURT 1953-2004, published by Star Cloud Press in 2004. His work appears on-line in Trellis , in Per Contra Light Verse Supplement, and in the current print issue of MEASURE. |
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Most recent poetry collection The Moon Inside was published in December 1999 (Gravity/Newton's Baby). Her awards include the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize 1997 and the Greensboro Poetry Award 2000. Founder and editor of Poets On: for twenty years, until it ceased publication. Her chapbook can be read at Web Del Sol. |
| Ellen Davis. | Teaches English at Boston University. Her poems have appeared in Agni, Emily Dickinson Journal, Harvard Review, Harvard Review and others. Her first manuscript of poems is circulating. |
| Chard deNiord. | Author of three books of poetry, Night Mowing (The University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), Sharp Golden Thorn (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003), and Asleep in the Fire (University of Alabama Press, 1990). His poems have appeared recently in American Religious Poems edited by Harold Bloom, and in The Pushcart Book of Poetry. His poems have also appeared in Ploughshares, The New Republic, and TriQuarterly. He is an associate professor of English at Providence College and co-founder of the New England College MFA program in poetry. |
| Diana Der Hovanessian. | Poetry Porch featured poet. |
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Published in Compost, 96 Inc., Boston Poet, and American Writer. Prepares tax returns for a living. |
| Richard Dey. | New and Selected Bequia Poems published by Macmillan Caribbean. |
| Susan Donnelly. | Founder of Every Other Thursday Poets. Her first poetry collection, Eve Names the Animals, won the Samuel French Morse Prize of Northeastern University. A poem from her second book Transit (Iris Press 2001) was featured on Garrison Keillor's Writers Almanac in April 2006. |
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Teaches creative writing and literature at Keene State College in New Hampshire. He has published several collections of poetry, most recently Another Ice Age (Cedar Hill, 2006), and Waiting for the Angel (Pygmy Forest Press, 2009), and three critical studies: The Years of Our Friendship: Robert Lowell and Allen Tate (University Press of Mississippi, 1990), The Modern Voice in American Poetry (University Press of Florida, 1995), Robert Lowell Shifting Colors (Ohio University Press, 1999), and a textbook entitled How to Read and Interpret Poetry (Prentice-Hall). |
| Tanya Ubiles Duarte. | Native of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and student of creative writing at Pine Manor College. These sonnets are her first published poems. |
| Susanne Dubroff. | A full manuscript of her translations titled This Smoke That Carried Us, Selected Poems by René Char was published by White Pine Press, Spring 2004. In 1999 The Mid-American Review (Bowling Green State University in Ohio) published a twenty-eight-page bilingual chapbook of her translations of the poems of René Char entitled Nothing Shipwrecks Itself (Spring 1999, Volume XIX, Number 2). |
| Heather Dubrow. | Word Press is publishing her book of poetry Forms and Hollows in February 2011. She is a member of the English faculty at Fordham University. The author of six scholarly books, most recently The Challenges of Orpheus: Lyric Poetry and Early Modern England (Johns Hopkins), she has also published a collection of essays (which she co-edited), two chapbooks of poetry, and articles on early modern literature and on teaching, as well as poems in numerous journals. |
| K. E. Duffin. | Poetry Porch featured poet. |
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A native of the Dominican Republic, she has lived in the U.S. since the age of seven. She publishes in English and Spanish and has four poetry collections in print: Lapsing to Grace; Where Horizons Go, which won the T. S. Eliot Prize; Rehearsing Absence, which won the Richard Wilbur Award; and Mundo y Palabra/The World and the Word, a bilingual chapbook. She has won the Howard Nemerov Award, the Sparrow Sonnet Prize and prizes from the Poetry Society of America. Retired from teaching school in New York City, Espaillat lives in Newburyport, Mass. |
| Anna Evans. | Her poems have appeared in the Harvard Review, Atlanta Review, Rattle, and 32 Poems. She was a finalist for the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award in both 2005 and 2007. She gained her MFA from Bennington College, and is the Editor of the Raintown Review and of The Barefoot Muse. Her chapbooks Swimming and Selected Sonnets are available from Maverick Duck Press. |
| Lee Evans. | Born in Maryland, where he lived most of his life, he is currently living in Bath, Maine. After graduating from college he held a variety of jobs, including those of landscape laborer, floral delivery man, collection attendant for Goodwill Industries, and clerk at the Maryland State Archives. His poems have appeared in such journals as Contemporary Rhyme, The Golden Lantern, The Road Not Taken, and The Deronda Review. He has produced two poetry collections, Maryland Weather and Nor'easter, which are available on Lulu.com. |
| Michael Fantina. | First book of poems Arcade of Dreams will be published in UK in 2007. |
| Richard Fein. | Lives in Cambridge, Mass. His most recent book publication is Reversion, Brick House Books, 2006, which also published Mother Tongue in 2004. His selected poems I Think of Our Lives was published with Creative Arts in California in 2002. |
| Annie Finch. | Author of Calendars (poetry), Among the Goddesses (a "narrative libretto"), The Ghost of Meter (criticism), and A Formal Feeling Comes (an anthology of poetry by women). She is known for developing an aesthetic of women's poetic traditions, publishing articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century "poetesses" starting with a 1987 article on Lydia Sigourney for Legacy; editing with Laura Mandell the texts for the original online Poetess Archive at Miami University; and founding and moderating for its first decade the international listserv for discussion of women's poetry, WOM-PO. In 2009 she received the Robert Fitzgerald Award for Prosody from West Chester University. She teaches at University of Southern Maine. |
| Caroline Finkelstein. | Third book, Justice, has recently been published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press. For the year 1998, she lived in Florence, Italy, on an Amy Lowell Travelling Fellowship. |
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Poetry Porch featured poet. |
| Paul Fraleigh. | Lives in Montreal, Quebec. His poems have appeared in The Barefoot Muse, Candelabrum Poetry Magazine, The Lyric, The Raintown Review, and Umbrella, as well as other print and online journals. |
| Mary Freeman. | Retired textbook language specialist and literacy specialist for the State of Maine. Since retirement in 2005, she has devoted herself to private scholarship and poetry-writing. She has been published in A Sense of Place, an Anthology of Maine Poets, in 2001, and was a Liberty Fund Scholar, attending "Freedom and the Epic" in 2002, and "Freedom and the Individual in Robert Frost's poetry" in 2003. A former member of the Orbis Pictus Committee, and member of the International Reading Association's Board of Manuscript Reviewers, she is currently working on a book about Julia Budenz's epic poem The Gardens of Flora Baum. She has nine children. |
| Kevin Gallagher. | Editor of compost magazine, now defunct. His poems and prose have appeared in canwehaveourballback?, Harvard Review, Partisan Review, and Jacket. He works as an international environmental economist at Tufts University. |
| Michael Gallagher. | Born on Achill Island, County Mayo, but now lives in Renagown, County Kerry. He worked as a builder in London for 40 years. His poetry and short stories have been published in The Doghouse Book of Ballad Poems, The Shamrock Haiku Journal, and Revival. He is a founding member of the Seanachaí Writers Group, Listowel. |
| Margaret Galvin. | Irish poet working on her fourth collection. In 2003, she won both The Brendan Kennelly and The Snowfit Poetry Awards. Her work has appeared in a number of Irish and United Kingdom outlets, and in Mobius (New York). |
| Celia Gilbert. | Has won a Discovery Award from the 92nd Street YM-YWHA, the Consuelo Ford Award and Emily Dickinson Prize (both from the Poetry Society of America), and the Pushcart Prize IX. Her work has appeared, among other places, in Poetry, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Southwest Review, and Ploughshares as well as in online journals. Her work has been frequently anthologized. She has three books of poetry, Queen of Darkness, Viking, Bonfire (Alice James Books), and the most recent Something to Exchange (BlazeVOXbooks, 2009). An Ark of Sorts (Alice James Books) won a Jane Kenyon Chapbook award. In 2009 a collection of her work appeared in a Polish-English edition pubished in Warsaw. In April 2011 she was the featured poet online on the Tower Journal. |
| Dana Gioia. | Former Director of the NEA: National Endowment for the Arts. Author of the long essay Can Poetry Matter?, two volumes of poetry, Daily Horoscope and The Gods of Winter, as well as a libretto of an opera in two acts, Nosferatu (Graywolf). |
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Photojournalist turned technical writer with large stockpile of black and white prints, technical know-how, and HTML experience. |
| Thomas Gothers. | Ceramics Area Studio Manager in the 3-D Department at MassArt, Boston. |
| Tracey Gratch. | Lives in Quincy, Massachusetts, with her husband and their four young children. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in online and print publications including, Soundzine, Snakeskin, The Poetry Porch Sonnet Scroll, Lucid Rhythms, Loch Raven Review, The Flea, Annals of Internal Medicine, Boston Literary Magazine, and The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine. She also has a poem in an upcoming anthology of Science Poetry. |
| Eamon Grennan. | Taught at Vassar College until 2004. Born in Dublin, he has lived in the United States, except for brief periods, since 1964. His most recent publication Out of Sight: New & Selected Poems is just out from Graywolf. He is author of Matter of Fact and The Quick of It (both also with Graywolf) and a translation of the poetry of Giacomo Leopardi. He has also translated Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, with his partner the classicist Rachel Kitzinger. |
| Nels Hanson. | Has worked as a farmer, teacher, and contract writer/ editor. He graduated from UC Santa Cruz and the University of Montana and his fiction received the San Francisco Foundation's James D. Phelan Award. His stories have appeared in Antioch Review, Texas Review, Black Warrior Review, Southeast Review, Long Story, Short Story, Starry Night Review, and other journals. "Now the River's in You," a 2010 story which appeared in Ruminate Magazine, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Hanson lives with his wife, Vicki, on the Central Coast of California. |
| Joyce Heapes. | Retired elementary school teacher who studies and writes poetry. |
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His poetry collections Signs, Translations (2008) Defining Absence (1999) have been issued by Salmon Books, distributed by Dufour Editions. |
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Lives in Mississippi where she teaches first grade. |
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Former head of the English Department at Northeastern University, he has published poems in The Classical Outlook and LIGHT: The Quarterly of Light Verse, where he was recently Featured Poet. |
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Poems and other writings have appeared in many publications including The Boston Review, Agni, PN Review (England), Notre Dame Review, The New Criterion, Salamander, also in the anthology World Poetry (Katherine Washburne and John S. Major, Eds.). |
| Katherine Jackson. | Poetry Porch featured poet and artist. |
| David Johnson. | Was born in Boston, MA, and attended Bowdoin College (BA '94) and the University of Cincinnati (MA '00), both degrees in Classics. He has been working for the last eight years at Thomas Jefferson School, a small boarding school, grades 7-12 in St. Louis, MO, where he currently resides. |
| Donna Johnson. | Has published poems and reviews in Birmingham Poetry Review, Café Review, Green Mountains Review, Roanoke Review, Tulane Review, Two Rivers Review, and Perihelion magazines. Recently won CutBank Magazine's online contest. Has poems forthcoming in Merge. She lives and works near Boston, Massachusetts. |
| Robert K. Johnson. | Is currently Consulting Editor for Ibbeston Street Magazine. His poems have appeared in such publications as Main Street Rag, Webster Review, South Carolina Review, The New York Times, and Chiron Review. His latest collections of poetry are From Mist To Shadow and Flowering Weeds. |
| George Kalogeris. | Poetry Porch featured poet. |
| X. J. Kennedy. | Author of, most recently, In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955-2007 (Johns Hopkins University Press) and Peeping Tom's Cabin, Comic Verse 1928-2008 (BOA Editions). |
| Joan A. W. Kimball. | A founder of the Concord Poetry Center and a member of the Powow River Poets and of the performance troupe called "X. J. Kennedy and the Light Brigade." She has had poems accepted in journals including Comstock Review, Atlanta Review, Measure, The Lyric, Thema, and Raintown Review. She was named a finalist for Southwest Review's 2010 Morton Marr Poetry Prize. |
| Kathleen Kirk. | Author of Selected Roles (Moon Journal Press), a chapbook of theater poems; Broken Sonnets (Finishing Line Press); and Living on the Earth (Finishing Line Press, New Women's Voices Series #74). Her poems appear in numerous literary journals, including Fourth River, Fifth Wednesday, Leveler, Poems & Plays, and Poetry East. She is the poetry editor for Escape Into Life . |
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Works as an editorial specialist at Creighton University, where she is currently enrolled as a graduate student in the creative writing program. Her poetry has appeared in Shadows and Smackwarm. |
| Luann Landon. | Most recent publications are in Mezzo Cammin and Measure. She has also published poems in Cumberland Poetry Review, The Sewanee Theological Review, Dogwood, The Tennessee Quarterly and The Edge City Review. Her memoir-cookbook, Dinner at Miss Lady's, published by Algonquin in 1999, is now a Kindle Book.. |
| David Landrum. | Teaches Literature at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. His sonnets have appeared in numerous journals, including 14 by 14, Hellas, The Formalist, The New Formalist, Umbrella, and many others. He edits the on-line poetry journal Lucid Rhythms. |
| Suzanne K. Lang. | Received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Emerson College in 2002, where she studied under Gail Mazur and Bill Knott. She received her B.A. in English and Creative Writing from Dartmouth College in 1999 and currently teaches at the College of New Jersey. |
| Christian Langworthy. | Has published poetry in anthologies such as Isn't It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Young American Poets, From Both Sides Now, Watermark, Premonitions, and Bold Words. He has also published poetry and prose in the Michigan Quarterly Review, Fence Magazine, failbetter.com, The Recorder, PBS American Experience, Mudfish, Salon.com, and Manoa. Several of his poems have been performed in libretti at the National Gallery of Art and at the Glimmerglass Opera Festival. |
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Award-winning writer of prose (stories, nonfiction, and journalism) appearing in Boston area literary journals, magazines, and newspapers, most recently published in Wild Apples, journal of nature, art, and inquiry. |
| Judith Liniado. | Full time visual artist of oil and watercolor landscapes and collage, specializing in Japanese and Chinese brush calligraphy and painting. |
| Ernesto Livorni. | Teaches in the Italian Language and Literature Department at University of Wisconsin. |
| Laurence Loeb. | Poems appeared recently in Mid-America Poetry Journal and in the Canadian journal FELT. His translation of a Beaudelaire poem was published in American Imago. |
| Anthony Lombardy. | Teaches classics and poetry writing at Belmont University, Tennessee. His book of poems Antique Collecting was pubished by WordTech Editions in 2004. |
| Sabra Loomis. | The author of Rosetree and two chapbooks of poetry, she has received awards from the Artists Foundation, the Yeats Society, and the British Council, as well as fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colongy. She teaches frequently at the William Joiner Center at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and was on the faculty of the Poets' House, Donegal, for many years. Her most recent collection House Held Together by Winds is a National Poetry Series Winner selected by James Tate. |
| Emily Lyle. | Director of Center for Scottish Studies in Edinburgh. |
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Poetry Porch featured poet. |
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Writes and publishes poetry in London. |
| Candace McClelland. | Student at Miami University in Ohio. |
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Translations include Late into the Night: the Last Poems of Yannis Ritsos (Oberlin/Field Translation Series) and Andreas Franghias's The Courtyard, winner of the 1996 Greek State Prize for Translation. Pt. Taenaron, a book of his poems, is available from Tapir Press. He lives in Richmond, Virginia. |
| Deborah Melone. | Member of Every Other Thursday Poets. |
| Ann Michael. | Two of her poems have recently appeared in LIGHT: The Quarterly of Light Verse. She has won a fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and has been published in numerous anthologies, literary reviews, and professional journals, including Poem, Natural Bridge, and Coe Review. She is working on a collection of literary essays. |
| Nancy Bailey Miller. | She has published three books of poems: Dance Me Along the Path, Before the Dove Returns and Risking Rallentand. Anthologized in The Powow River Anthology, Our Mothers, Our Selves, and the Merrimack Literary Review, Bailey Miller recently retired from Phillips Academy, Andover, where she taught writing in the Summer Session. Her poetry has also appeared in many journals including Rattapallax, Blue Unicorn, and Ancient Paths. When she is not writing, Nancy teaches Suzuki violin and viola. |
| Richard Moore. |
Of Richard Moore's ten published volumes of poetry, one was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He
is also the author of a novel, The Investigator
(Story Line Press, 1991), a collection of essays, The Rule That Liberates (University of South
Dakota Press, 1994), and translations of Plautus' Captivi (in the Johns Hopkins University Complete
Roman Drama in Translation series, 1995) and Euripedes' Hippolytus (in the Penn Greek Drama Series,
U. of Pennsylvania, 1998). Moore's most recent poetry books include The Mouse Whole: An Epic
(Negative Capability Press, 1996) and Pygmies and Pyramids (Orchises Press, 1998). His newest
collection of poems, The Naked Scarecrow, was published by Truman State University Press, New
Odyssey Editions, in the spring of 2000.
Moore taught at Boston University, Brandeis University, the New England Conservatory of Music, and Clark University. He directed the Agape poetry series in Boston and The Poetry Exchange in Cambridge, Mass., and Leesburg, Va., until he died in 2009. In a memorial tribute, X. J. Kennedy wrote: "[Moore's] devastating satiric verse...included moving lyrics invoking the sorrows of love and war" (LIGHT, No. 66-67). His Web site remains online at www.moorepoetry.com. |
| Paul Muldoon. | Author of ten books of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Moy Sand and Gravel, and, most recently, Horse Latitudes. Between 1999 and 2004, he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, afterwhich he published The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures. He teaches at Princeton University and is Poetry Editor of The New Yorker. |
| James Naiden. | Articles on the works, respectively, of Seamus Heaney (last spring) and Deborah Digges (current issue) can be found on the Rain Taxi website. His novel, Scuttlebone, is now available from PublishAmerica or Amazon.com. |
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Studied in the Creative Writing Program at Boston University. An Indian national who grew up in Zambia, he received an MA in cultural anthropology from Stanford University and taught history and anthropology in South Africa before coming to Boston. His publications include six poems in the anthology Reasons For Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets (Penguin India, 2002), poems in the Fulcrum Annual 2003, a story in the South African magazine Mamba, and a review of the Indian poet Dom Moraes in the Summer 2002 issue of Poetry Review (London). “A.K. Natarajan and the Three Varieties of Love” is part of a projected book of stories. |
| Philip Nikolayev. | Co-editor with Katia Kapovich of FULCRUM: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics. |
| Thomas O’Grady. | Director of the Irish Studies Department at University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he also teaches. He has published poetry in Poetry Ireland, Verse, Fiddlehead, and many other journals. His first book of poems, What Really Matters, was published in 2000 by McGill-Queen's University Press in Canada. |
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Her chapbook The Man in the Picture was published in the Walking to Windward series, by Oyster River Press, 2001. She died in 2006, afterwhich a chapbook award was created in her name at New England Poetry Club . More information can be found at the UNH library . |
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Essays on overlapping themes of cultural, religious, and intellectual history include the following: "Progress, Irony, and Human Sacrifice," published in Hudson Review, Spring 1995; "Deep Ecology and Fundamentalism" (part of a book-in- progress with tentative title, "Arguing Nature"), which appeared in the World Future Society's volume The Years Ahead: Perils, Problems, and Promises, 1993; "On Cranks," which was published in the Southwest Review, Summer 1991, won the John H. McGinnis Award for non-fictions, and was reprinted (abridged) in Harper's, November 1991. See new essays on-line at the Azoth Gallery. |
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Has published 18 poetry collections including Colors Passing Through Us, What Are Big Girls Made Of?, The Art of Blessing the Day, The Crooked Inheritance, and most recently The Hunger Moon, all from Knopf. She has written seventeen novels, most recently Sex Wars from Morrow/Harper Collins, who published her memoir, Sleeping with Cats. Two of her earlier novels, Vida and Dance the Eagle to Sleep are being reprinted by PM Press in 2011. Visit her Web site at www.margepiercy.com. |
| Robert Pinsky. | Professor of Creative Writing at Boston University and former U. S. Poet Laureate. |
| James Plath. | Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University. His poems have appeared in Men of Our Time: An Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary America (University of Georgia Press, 1992) and such journals as The North American Review, ACM (Another Chicago Magazine), Apalachee Quarterly, Gulf Stream Magazine, Spillway, and The Caribbean Writer. This poem was written when he taught one semester as a Fulbright scholar at the University of the West Indies in Barbados. . |
| Sharon Portnoff. | Teaches at Connecticut College. Her poems have appeared in Midstream and Chants. |
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| Elizabeth Reeke. | Poetry Porch featured poet. |
| Franklin D. Reeve. | His critical position can be found in his essays, two of which are reprinted in The New York Quarterly, No. 64. His most recent books—The Blue Cat Walks the Earth and The Toy Soldier—both came out in 2007. |
| Judith Benét Richardson. | Writes poetry and books for children and young adults (The Way Home, 1991, and Come to My Party, 1993, both with Macmillan; and First Came the Owl with Henry Holt, 1996). A recent project is about growing up during the Cold War. |
| Ted Richer. | Graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Richer currently teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. His book, The Writer in the Story and Other Figurations, with an introduction by Christopher Ricks, is available through Apocalypse Press |
| Steven Riel. | Is the author of three chapbooks; the most recent Postcard from P-town was runner-up for the inaugural Robin Becker Chapbook Prize and was published by Seven Kitchens Press in 2009. His poems have been published in several anthologies and widely in periodicals, including The Minnesota Review, The Antigonish Review, and Christopher Street. He has an MFA in Poetry from New England College. He is currently teaching master's-level students in poetry at Antioch University Midwest, in addition to his position as a librarian at Harvard University. |
| Jennifer Rose. | Poetry Porch featured poet. |
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Poet and playwright in New York City. She is co-curator of the KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Reading Series. |
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Fortysomething housewife, mother, poet, reader, and part-time graduate student at the University of Louisville, recently transplanted from her home in central New Hampshire. |
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Associate professor of English at Tennessee Wesleyan College. His poems have been published in Berkeley Poetry Review, Acumen, Envoi, Orbis, and many other journals. He is currently seeking a publisher for his first book, "Queen Gertrude in Her Cups and other poems," which, in a section entitled "Love and Lust in the Western World," contains these sonnets. |
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Founder and editor of Santa Fe Poetry Broadside. |
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| Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Classical Music Editor of The Boston Phoenix, and a regular commentator for NPR's Fresh Air. His most recent book of poems is Cairo Traffic (University of Chicago Press), and he is co-editor of Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters for the Library of America. His poems, articles, and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Pushcart Prize, and The Best American Poetry. In 1994, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. |
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| The singer, songwriter, activist. See her Web site at www.pegseeger.org . |
| Rebecca Seiferle. | Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Drunken Boat. Most recent publication is Bitters with Copper Canyon Press. Her second collection of poetry, The Music We Dance To, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Poems in the collection won the Cecil Hemley Award from the Poetry Society of America and appeared in Best American Poetry 2000. Her first book The Ripped-Out Seam won the Bogin Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Writers Exchange Award. Her translation of Vallejo's Trilce was the only finalist for the 1992 PENWest Translation Award. |
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Past President of Grolier Poetry Book Shop. |
| Paul Christian Stevens. | Was born in Yorkshire, England, but lives in Australia. He has an Honours Degree in English and Archaeology, and teaches literature. He has published poems and prose in print and pixel, most recently or imminently in Mannequin Envy, The Barefoot Muse, Shakespeare's Monkey Revue, The Literary Bohemian, The HyperTexts, Goblin Fruit, New Verse News, Abyss & Apex, Umbrella, Lighten Up Online, Lucid Rhythms, Ourobouros Review, Innisfree, Snakeskin, Unlikely 2.0, Centrifugal Eye and The Raintown Review. He edits the broadsheet series, The Flea. |
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Widely published in literary magazines and anthologies: a few of these are Blue Unicorn, The Lyric and Orbis. She has been a featured poet at many cafes in New York City and has hosted and coordinated formalist readings at the DS Restaurant in Greenwich Village, Belanthi Gallery in Brooklyn, and Alterknit Factory in Tribeca. In 2001 she published her Collected Poems, comprising over 200 pages of poetry, which is available from A Novel Idea Bookshop in Brooklyn, New York. |
| Matthew Sweeney. | Author of the poetry collections The Bridal Suite and Fatso in the Red Suit (both with Faber and Faber). |
| Adam H. Tessier. | Upon graduation from Vassar College in 2006, he received the Deanne Beach Stoneham Prize for Best Original Poetry and the Weitzel Barber Art Travel Prize for travel in Europe during 2005. He works at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. |
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Born in the Midwest, has lived a nomadic existence, from New England to New Mexico, now in northern California, the Bay Arena; has published and taught in magazines, journals, and schools across the country. |
| Frederick Turner. | Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas, he was educated at Oxford University. A poet, critic, translator, philosopher, and former editor of The Kenyon Review, he has authored 30 books, including Natural Classicism, The Culture of Hope, Genesis: An Epic Poem, April Wind, Hadean Eclogues, The New World, Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century Economics, Paradise, Natural Religion, and Two Ghost Poems. With his colleague Zsuzsanna Ozsváth he won Hungary's highest literary honor for their translations of Miklós Radnóti's poetry. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature internationally over 40 times. |
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Her novels have been published in Seattle, London, and New York, and reviewed in Yale Review, World Literature Today, Hudson Review, among others. Her short stories have appeared in TriQuarterly, Michigan Review, Antioch, as well as in several anthologies. She has three collections of short fiction. |
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His poems have been published in Bridges, 322 Review, Lituanus, and are forthcoming in Prime Number Magazine. His translation has appeared in The Massachusetts Review. Currently, he is enrolled at Rutgers-Newark University in the MFA program in creative writing. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and taught philosophy at St. John's University and Brooklyn College. His book Desire, Meaning, and Virtue: The Socratic Account of Poetry was published in 2009. |
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Of Madison, WI, she holds a Ph.D. in English from University of Pennsylvania; her poems, reviews, and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in various journals, including Poet Lore, Main Street Rag, Nerve Cowboy, Free Verse, Pivot, and Portland Review Literary Journal. |
| Chris Wallace-Crabbe. | Professor Emeritus in the Australian Centre at University of Melbourne. He is author of many books of poetry, lately including By and Large (Carcanet Oxford Poets) and The Universe Looks Down (Brandl & Schlesinger). Among his artist's books there has recently appeared The Flowery Meadow, his translation of Canto XXVIII of Dante's Purgatorio (Electio Editions, Melbourne). |
| Henry Weinfield. | Teaches at the Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame. His book Without Mythologies: New and Selected Poems and Translations, published by Dos Madres Press, is reviewed in this issue, posted under poetics. |
| Gail White. | Widely published poet belonging to the Formalist Movement in contemporary poetry. Her manuscript The Accidental Cynic won the Anita Dorn Award. Her work is included in the Poets Greatest Hits archive at Pudding House Press. She lives in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, with her husband and cats. |
| Kelley Jean White. | Has been a pediatrician in inner-city Philadelphia and rural New Hampshire. Her work has appeared widely in publications from Exquisite Corpse to The Journal of the American Medical Association. She was the recipient of a Pennsylvania Council of the Arts fellowship in 2008 for work that became a part of her most recent collection, Two Birds in Flame (Beech River Books), featuring poems related to the Shaker Community in Canterbury, New Hampshire. |
| Liza McAlister Williams. | Lives, writes, and works in Brooklyn, New York, where she teaches at the Pratt Institute, exporing with art students the ways poetry and drama resemble, and resonate with, the plastic arts. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Light Quarterly, Blue Unicorn, Pasque Petals, Quill, and others. |
| Joyce Wilson. | Poetry Porch editor. |
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Has published in Blue Unicorn, The MacGuffin, The Windsor Review, The Tennessee Quarterly, and more. He lives with his wife and three sons in Gliwice, Poland, where he works as a translator. |
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