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Pincushion's Strawberry
Jared Carter
Jared Carter has published three books of poetry with the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, most recently Les Barricades Mystérieuses (1999).
“Carter’s is a poetry of resolute middle distance, firmly of this world: between the dust under the earth and the dust of space there exists the place the poem can illumine.” –Helen Vendler
“These are loving poems, delivered in a quiet, authoritative voice; the reader slips into their flow and partakes of a communion. . . [This] is a remarkable achievement.” –Bruce Bennett
“From beginning to end, this volume has the quiet passion of conviction, the voice of a poet who knows exactly what he wants to say and how to say it. . . Behind the range of styles and approaches, one recognizes a single honest and contemporary voice.” –Dana Gioia
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Possessions
Hale Chatfield
Hale Chatfield wrote eighteen books, including ten volumes of poetry. Some of his books are Possessions, At Home, Water Colors, What Color Are Your Eyes?, The Young Country, and The Sotto Voce Massacres.
Literary criticism by Chatfield appeared in Kenyon Review, Milton Quarterly, Northeast, Trace, and University Review. He also wrote for the reference works Contemporary Literary Criticism and Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs.
He taped a two-week educational series on poetry for NBC-TV. Chatfield was actively involved for more than twenty years in Ohio’s “Poets in the Schools” program.
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Dreaming of Rivers
Eric Tretheway
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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Glass Walker
Imogene L. Bolls
Imogene Bolls, Professor emerita, former Poet-in-Residence and Director of the Journalism Program, who retired in 1999, published three volumes of poetry, Advice for the Climb, 1999; Earthbound, 1989; and Glass Walker, 1982; and more than 600 poems in literary journals and anthologies. Her poems in anthologies include “In Retrospect: Oedipus to the Sphinx” in Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology, University Press of New England, 1999; and “First Light on Chacra Mesa” and “Kansas Flint Hills” in The Practice of Peace, Sherman Asher Publishing, Santa Fe, NM, 1998.
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Us
Ralph Burns
Ralph Burns is a professor and co-director of creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His most recent book, Ghost Notes, winner of the FIELD Poetry Prize, was published in 2000 by Oberlin College Press. Burns’ five other books include: Swamp Candles, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize (University of Iowa Press, 1996); Mozart’s Starling (Ohio Review Books, 1990); Any Given Day (The University of Alabama Press, 1985); Windy Tuesday Nights, winner of the Mountains of Minnesota Award (Milkweed Editions, 1984); and Us, winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1983). Burns has published over 200 poems in journals, such as The Atlantic, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and Field. He has also received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in Poetry, the Porter Prize for Literary Excellence, and the Faculty Excellence Award in Scholarship at University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and a Poetry Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council.
“If Albert Camus wanted to know what was American in our poetry right now, what showed the breadth of our language and the honesty of its utterance, what was the best of American langue et parole, I’d show him Ralph Burns’s poems.” –Mark Jarman
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Sarah Bernhardt's Leg
David Kirby
David Kirby is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. Kirby is the author of numerous books, including The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems, which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award in poetry. His Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll was named one of Booklist’s Top 10 Black History Non-Fiction Books of 2010, and theTimes Literary Supplement called it “a hymn of praise to the emancipatory power of nonsense.” Kirby’s forthcoming poetry collection is The Biscuit Joint.
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Creatures
Howard Nelson
Howard Nelson is a poet. All the Earthly Lovers: Selected & New Poems was published in 2014. He is also the author of Robert Bly: An Introduction to the Poetry, editor of Earth, My Likeness Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman and On the Poetry of Galway Kinnell: The Wages of Dying. He is a widely published poet and contributor to Walt Whitman: an Encyclopedia. His poem, “The Man In The Yard” was broadcast on The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor. Howard lives in the Finger Lakes Region of New York and is Professor of English at Cuyahoga Community College.
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Afreeka Brass
Mwatabu S. Okantah
Mwatabu Okantah is an Assistant Professor and Poet-in-Residence in the Department of Pan-African Studies at Kent State University, where he also serves as Director of the Center of Pan-African Culture. A highly recognized poet and motivational speaker, Okantah has appeared in various locations throughout the USA and West Africa. As a performer, he has worked in a variety of musical situations, including time as griot for the Iroko African Drum & Dance Society and in an ongoing collaboration with the Cavani String Quartet.
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Roots/Routes
Ralph Burns and Douglas Kinsey
Ralph Burns is a professor and co-director of creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His most recent book, Ghost Notes, winner of the FIELD Poetry Prize, was published in 2000 by Oberlin College Press. Burns’ five other books include: Swamp Candles, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize (University of Iowa Press, 1996); Mozart’s Starling (Ohio Review Books, 1990); Any Given Day(The University of Alabama Press, 1985); Windy Tuesday Nights, winner of the Mountains of Minnesota Award (Milkweed Editions, 1984); and Us, winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1983). Burns has published over 200 poems in journals, such as The Atlantic, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and Field. He has also received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in Poetry, the Porter Prize for Literary Excellence, and the Faculty Excellence Award in Scholarship at University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and a Poetry Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council.
“If Albert Camus wanted to know what was American in our poetry right now, what showed the breadth of our language and the honesty of its utterance, what was the best of American langue et parole, I’d show him Ralph Burns’s poems.” –Mark Jarman
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With Love to My Survivors
Richard A. Hawley
Richard Hawley is a lifelong teacher and writer. The retired headmaster of Cleveland’s University School and founding president of the International Boys’ School Coalition (IBSC), he has published more than twenty books, including several novels, collections of poetry, and non-fiction works, principally about children, schools, and learning. Hawley’s most recent collection of poems isTwenty-One Visits with a Darkly Sun Tanned Angel. Hawley’s essays, articles and poems have appeared in dozens of magazines and journals including The Atlantic, American Film, Orion, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and The New England Journal of Medicine. For ten years he taught fiction and non-fiction writing at The Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and he continues to teach writers in a variety of settings. He has addressed audiences at schools, colleges, educational conferences, and public forums throughout the United States, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
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Scissors, Paper, Rock
Larry Smith
Larry Smith is a poet, biographer, memoirist, critic, editor, and professor emeritus of English at Bowling Green State University’s Firelands College. He directs Bottom Dog Press and Bird Dog Publishing. Originally from the industrial Ohio River Valley, he and his wife Ann now live along the shores of Lake Erie. Recent title: The Kanshi Poems of Taigu Ryokan, translated by Smith and Mei Hui Liu Huang.
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In Enormous Water
Lolette Kuby
Lolette is an expat from the United States. Prior to her move to Toronto, Canada, she taught in the English Department of the Cleveland State University. She holds a Ph.D. from the Case Western Reserve University.
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The Sandaled Foot
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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More Palomino, Please, More Fuchsia
Marilyn Krysl
Warscape with Lovers is Marilyn Krysl’s seventh book of poetry, (her second, More Palomino, Please, More Fuchsia, was published by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 1980); she has also published two volumes of fiction. Krysl’s poems and stories have appeared in many journals and anthologies and have won various prizes including the 1994 Negative Capability Award for fiction and the 1995 Spoon River Poetry Review for poetry. She has been the recipient of a residency at Yaddo, and grants from the Colorado Council of the Arts and Earthwatch. She has taught ESL in the People’s Republic of China, served as Artist in Residence at the Center for Human Caring and worked as a volunteer for Peace Brigade International in Sri Lanka and at the Kalighat Home for the Destitute and Dying administered by Mother Teresa’ s Sisters of Charity in Calcutta.
“Marilyn Krysl has found balance in places shaken by deprivation and injury. This is a beautiful book of poetry, not because it is lyrical (though it is), but because it treats suffering with love. It embraces what devours us. It instructs us by example in the way that poetry can be centered, conscionable and intimate. I feel in this book the power of open eyes and open arms.” –Marvin Bell
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Nailing Up the Home Sweet Home
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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The Earth Without You
Franz Wright
Franz Wright’s collections of poetry include The Beforelife (2001), God’s Silence (2006), and Walking to Martha’s Vineyard, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004. He has received a Whiting Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for his poetry.
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