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Evening Knowledge
Eric Trethewey
Eric Trethewey was a professor of English at Hollins University. He wrote five collections of poems: Dreaming of Rivers, Evening Knowledge, The Long Road Home, Songs and Lamentations, and Heart’s Hornbook. Evening Knowledge was a winner in the 1990 Virginia Prize for Poetry. His literary scholarship included articles on various writers, including Matthew Arnold and Joseph Conrad. His poems, stories, essays, and reviews appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, among them The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The Hudson Review, Poetry, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, The New Republic, The Southern Review, and Canadian Literature. The Home Waltz, a screenplay, won the Virginia Governor’s Screenplay Competition.
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At Redbones
Thylias Moss
Thylias Moss was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on February 27, 1954. She earned a B.A. from Oberlin College and an M.A. from the University of New Hampshire. Her books of poetry include Slave Moth: A Narrative in Verse (Persea Books, 2004), Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler (1998), Small Congregations: New and Selected Poems (1993), Rainbow Remnants in Rock Bottom Ghetto Sky (1991),At Redbones (1990), Pyramid of Bone (1989), and Hosiery Seams on a Bowlegged Woman (1983). She is the author of a memoir, Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress (1998), and two plays, Talking to Myself (1984) and The Dolls in the Basement (1984). Among her honors are a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Dewar’s Profiles Performance Award, a Witter Bynner Award for Poetry, and a Whiting Award. She lives in Michigan.
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Coming into History
Jeanne Murray Walker
Jeanne Murray Walker is a writer and teacher who was born in Parkers Prairie, a village of a thousand people in Minnesota. Jeanne has written eight volumes of poetry, including Helping the Morning: New and Selected Poems, A Deed to the Light, and New Tracks, Night Falling. Her poetry and essays have appeared numerous journals, including Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, The Christian Century, The American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, and Best American Poetry. Jeanne is a Professor of English at The University of Delaware, where she heads the Creative Writing Concentration. She also serves as a Mentor in the Seattle Pacific University Master of Fine Arts Program.
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North Sea
Mark Jarman
Mark Jarman was born in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, on June 5, 1952. He earned a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1974 and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1976. He has published numerous collections of poetry, including Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems(Sarabande Books, 2011); Epistles (Sarabande Books, 2007); To the Green Man (Sarabande Books, 2004); Unholy Sonnets (Story Line Press, 2000); Questions for Ecclesiastes (Story Line Press, 1997), which won the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Iris (Story Line Press, 1992); The Black Riviera (Wesleyan University Press, 1990), which won the 1991 Poets’ Prize; Far and Away (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1985); The Rote Walker (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1981); and North Sea (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1978).
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Another Body
Stephen Tapscott
Stephen Tapscott is a poet whose fields of interest include creative writing (poetry, experimental prose), poetry as a literary genre, and translation. He’ s published five books of poems and a book of criticism (on Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams). In recent years he’s edited an anthology of Latin American Poetry, and translated books by Pablo Neruda (One Hundred Love Sonnets), Jan Twardowski (God Asks for Love), Wislawa Szymborska (The End and the Beginning), and Gabriela Mistral (Selected Prose and Prose Poems).
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When I Kept Silence
Naomi Clark
Naomi Clark helped establish the first San Jose Poetry Center and acted as its director for five years in the early 1980s. Her 1988 book of poetry, When I Kept Silence, earned the 1990 Washington Governor’s Writers Award. Her collection The Single Eye won the Quarterly Review of Literature international poetry competition. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from San Jose State, and her doctorate in literature from UC Santa Cruz. She taught poetry for 14 years at San Jose State University.
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Possible Debris
Richard Hague
Born and raised in Steubenville, Ohio, and later living alone in a trailer during the summers in rural Monroe County, Ohio, Richard Hague has experienced two distinct settings of Appalachian life— polluted mill town and isolated country ridge. He has written about physics, cosmology, and the development of the atomic bomb (The Time It Takes Light), urban gardening (Garden), the town/country split of his Appalachian upbringing (Ripening, Mill and Smoke Marrow), Appalachian landscape and culture (Possible Debris), creativity (Burst: Poems Quickly and Lives of the Poem: Community & Connection in a Writing Life), the presence of the past on the Ohio River (A Week of Nights Down River), and growing up, physically and culturally, in two places: (Milltown Natural: Essays and Stories from a Life). His latest poetry manuscript is During The Recent Extinctions, which deals with the effects of human culture on the earth’ s flora and fauna, as well as on the spirit of humans themselves. He teaches young people at Purcell Marian High School in Cincinnati, where he has worked continuously since 1969. He is the winner of the Black Swamp Poetry Prize, the l982 Post-Corbett Award in Literary Arts in Cincinnati, two President’ s Awards from the Ohio State University, three Individual Artist Fellowships in two genres from the Ohio Arts Council, the James Still Award in Short Fiction, the 2004 Poetry Book of the Year Award from the Appalachian Writers Association for Alive in Hard Country, and was named Ohio Co-Poet of the Year in 1985 for Ripening by the Ohio Poetry Day Association.
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Returning the Question
Trish Reeves
Trish Reeves’ first book, Returning the Question, won the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize (1988). BookMark Press of UMKC published In the Knees of the Gods: Poems (2001). Her work is recognized by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Kansas Arts Commission, and Yaddo; she was a Keck Fellow at Sarah Lawrence College. She has edited New Letters Review of Books. She leads book discussion groups for the Kansas Humanities Council and Johnson County.
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Power to Die
Robert Hill Long
Robert Hill Long, raised and educated in North Carolina, was the founding director of the North Carolina Writers’ Network in 1984. He has taught at Clark University, Smith College, and the University of Hartford, and now teaches at the University of Oregon. His first book, The Power to Die, was published by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 1987.
“Robert Hill Long’s poems have the feel of land and history seen in moments of personal definition, seen through the lens of a family. His voice speaks in long fluent lines with both freedom and formal assurance, of the experience of war, and of the war and peace of human affection. It is a voice that praises the voluptuous body of earth and incorporates the sad flotsam of a family, of mortality. At times wickedly funny, at others haunted by the legend and landscape of America, his poems are always politically informed and alert, and our poetry is the richer.” — Robert Morgan
“The Work of the Bow is intense, edgy but at the same time serene; it builds and moves like a river. There are poems here that are so human and alive they will break your heart and end up leaving it better. This is a beautiful book.” –Thomas Lux
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How to Make a Terrarium
Veronica Patterson
Veronica Patterson received Individual Artist’s Fellowships from the Colorado Council on the Arts in 1984 and 1997 and has had residencies at the Ucross Foundation, Hedgebrook, and Rocky Mountain National Park. She is a graduate of Cornell University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Northern Colorado. She also holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College.
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The Lit Window
Michael Umphrey
Michael Umphrey is the author of three books, most recently Community Centered Education: Teaching as a Craft of Place (Rowman & Littlefield). He has presented workshops on place-based and community-centered teaching throughout the nation. His writing on education has been published in such national and state periodicals. He was founding director of the Heritage Project, an educational initiative of the Library of Congress and the Liz Claiborne and Art Ortenberg Foundation. He writes, teaches and gardens on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana.
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Appassionata Doctrines
David Citino
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, David Citino earned a B.A. from Ohio University and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. His ten poetry collections include The Discipline: New and Selected Poems, 1980–1992 (1992), Broken Symmetry (1997), The News and Other Poems (2002), The Appassionata Poems(1983), and A History of Hands (2006). Citino taught for many years at Ohio State, where he was named poet laureate of the school. He edited a book on teaching poetry, The Eye of the Poet: Six Views of the Art and Craft of Poetry (2001), and served as a poetry editor at the Ohio State University Press. Citino’s awards included fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council and Ohioana Career Award from the Ohioana Library Association.
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Magic Shows
David Graham
David Graham was born and raised in Johnstown, New York, and educated at Dartmouth College and the University of Massachusetts. He has served as poetry editor of Blue Moon Review and been Poet in Residence at the Robert Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. His poems have appeared in five other collections: Stutter Monk, Common Waters, Second Wind, Greatest Hits 1975-2000, andDoggedness. With Kate Sontag he is co-editor of the essay anthology After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography. Since 1987, he has taught English at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin.
“David Graham’s Magic Shows is a superb collection of poems, creating a world largely but not exclusively American, in settings vividly but never wholly familiar. He knows our country, our childhood, our parents; the highways, farms, squalor and weather that surround us. . . His wonderfully skillful poems are alive with lovely echoes of a literature he has as much by heart as our landscape, habits, and history. This is a fine and generous volume by a poet of remarkable talent.” –Anthony Hecht
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A Clear Space on a Cold Day
Roger Mitchell
Roger Mitchell is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Letters from Siberia and Other Poems (1971), A Clear Space on a Cold Day (1986), Braid (1997), Delicate Bait (2003), which won the Akron Poetry Prize and Lemon Peeled the Moment Before: New & Selected Poems 1967–2008(2008). He has also published a work of nonfiction, Clear Pond: The Reconstruction of a Life (1991), which won the John Ben Snow Foundation Prize. Other honors and awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Indiana Arts Commission, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. A former director of the M.F.A. program at Indiana University Bloomington, Mitchell currently lives in the Adirondack Mountains of New York with his wife, the writer Dorian Gossy.
“Roger Mitchell, like all good writers, is not one thing but is many: he is wise, affectionate, rueful, judicious, eccentric. But above all he is funny and he is tender, qualities that make his poetry concentrically pleasurable. Whether he writes about Walt Whitman, bus stations, Howard Johnson restaurants, or the little ecstasies of family life, Roger Mitchell proves himself to be a remarkable poet. That has never been so true as it is in A Clear Space on a Cold Day.” –Dave Smith
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Calling Yourself Home
Michael Rattee
Michael Rattee’s poems have appeared in Heliotrope, Main Street Rag, Negative Capability, Poet Lore, and other literary magazines and in anthologies including Men Of Our Time (University of Georgia Press) and Proposing On The Brooklyn Bridge: Poems About Marriage (Grayson Books). He has won an Author! Author! Award and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 1984, he received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry. His books include Mentioning Dreams (Adastra Press),Calling Yourself Home (Cleveland State University Poetry Center), Greatest Hits: 1976-2006 (Pudding House Publications), and, with his son Kiev, Enough Said (Adastra Press). He co-edited, with David Ray, Surfings: The Selected Poems of Will Inman (Howling Dog Press). A new poetry collection,Falling off the Bicycle Forever, is now available from Adastra Press.
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Haunts
David Baker
David Baker is Professor of English and holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair of Creative Writing. He is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently Never-Ending Birds (2009, W. W. Norton), which won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize. His five prose books are Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems (forthcoming 2014), Talk Poetry: Poems and Interviews with Nine American Poets (2012), Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry (2007, with Ann Townsend), Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry (2000) and Meter in English: A Critical Engagement (1996). Dr. Baker's poems and essays have appeared widely in such magazines as American Poetry Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, Slate, The Yale Review, and more than a hundred others. For his work he has received fellowships and awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Society of Midland Authors. Dr. Baker also is Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review. In 2012, 2006, and 2001 he served on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
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The Theology of Doubt
Scott Cairns
Scott Cairns is the author of seven collections of poetry, The Theology of Doubt, The Translation of Babel, Figures for the Ghost, Recovered Body, Philokalia, Compass of Affection: Poems New & Selected, and Idiot Psalms. With W. Scott Olsen, he co-edited The Sacred Place, a collection of prose and verse celebrating the intersections of landscape and ideas of the holy. His work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, The New Republic, Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, Spiritus,Tiferet, Western Humanities Review, and many other journals. He has taught American literature, poetry writing, and poetics courses at Westminster College, University of North Texas, Old Dominion University, and at University of Missouri, where he is currently Professor of English.
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Peter Maurin and other poems
David Craig
David Craig has published nine collections of poetry: The Sandaled Foot (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1980), Psalms (Park Bench Press, 1982), Peter Maurin and Other Poems (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1985), Marching Through Gaul (Scripta Humanisitica, 1990), Only One Face (White Eagle Coffee Store Press, 1994), The Roof of Heaven (Franciscan University Press, 1998), Mercy’s Face: New & Selected Poems, 1980-2000 (Franciscan University Press, 2000), Sonnets from Matthew (Franciscan University English Department, chapbook, 2002). David Craig has an M.F.A. and Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University. He has taught Creative Writing as a Professor at the Franciscan University of Steubenville for almost twenty years.
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Straw into Gold
Bruce Bennett
Bruce Bennett is a nationally recognized poet, editor, and reviewer. He is the author of more than twenty chapbooks of poems and nine full-length poetry collections. Bennett was a founding editor of the magazines Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics and Ploughshares and has reviewed contemporary poetry for the New York Times Book Review, The Nation, and Harvard Review. He served for many years as an Associate Editor at State Street Press. In 2004, the journal Paintbrushdevoted an entire issue to his work.
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