March 2017

Congeries - March 2017

A Poetry Congeries with John Hoppenthaler - March 2017

According to Wikipedia, in the days before Ted Kooser’s birthday on April 25^th, 1939, Billie Holiday recorded “Strange Fruit,” a song

Ted Kooser served two terms as U. S. Poet Laureate and is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in rural

Mộng-Lan, former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and Fulbright Scholar, has published six books of poetry & artwork, two

Kirun Kapur is the winner of the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize in Poetry and the Antivenom Poetry Award for her first book,

Stephen Corey is the author of Startled at the Big Sound: Essays Personal, Literary, and Cultural (Mercer UP, 2017) and

Loretta Collins Klobah is a professor of Caribbean Literature and creative writing at the University of Puerto Rico. Her poetry

Marc Harshman’s second full-length collection, Believe What You Can, was published in 2016 by West Virginia University Press.

Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collections keep (forthcoming from Dusie Press),