Saturday Dec 21

Congeries - July 2010

H. L. Hix - Poetry

HixH.L. H. L. Hix teaches at the University of Wyoming.  His recent poetry books include Chromatic, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award; God Bless (2007), a “political/poetic discourse” built around sonnets and sestinas and villanelles composed of quotations from George W. Bush

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Eleanor Stanford - Poetry

StanfordEleanor Eleanor Stanford's The Book of Sleep was published by Carnegie Mellon UP in 2008. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Harvard Review, The Georgia Review, and many other journals. She lives in Salvador, Brazil, with her husband and three young sons,

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Carl Phillips - Poetry

PhillipsCarl Carl Phillips is the author of eleven books of poems, most recently Speak Low (FSG, 2009) and Double Shadow, forthcoming from FSG in 2011.  He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Matthew Cooperman - Poetry

CoopermanMatthew Matthew Cooperman is the author of two full-length collections, DaZE (Salt Publishing, 2006) and A Sacrificial Zinc, winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize (Pleiades/LSU, 2001), as well as three chapbooks, Still: (to be) Perpetual (Dove | Tail Poetry, 2007),

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Jeffrey Skinner - Poetry

SkinnerJeffrey Jeffrey Skinner's play, Down Range, had its debut production in New York in Fall of 2009.  Other of his recent poems have appeared in such journals as Slate, The New Yorker, and Fence.   He teaches at the University of Louisville

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Lesle Lewis - Poetry

LewisLesle Lesle Lewis' books include Small Boat (winner of 2002 Iowa Poetry Prize) and Landscapes I & II (Alice James Books, 2006).  Her new book lie down too, winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award, will be out in 2011.  She teaches at Landmark College in Vermont.

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Cai Qijiao - Poetry in Translation

CaiQuijiao Cai Qijiao stands out as a rare poet who extricated himself from the meshes of Socialist Realism under Mao Zedong, survived social ostracism before and during the Cultural Revolution, and persisted in writing individually inspired, high-quality poetry. 

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Holly Iglesias - Poetry

Iglesias Holly Iglesias is a poet, translator and author of Souvenirs of a Shrunken World, Hands-on Saints, and Boxing Inside the Box: Women’s Prose Poetry.  She teaches in the Master of Liberal Arts Program at the University of North Carolina-Asheville

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Keith Flynn - Poetry

FlynnKeith Keith Flynn (www.keithflynn.net) is the author of five books, including four collections of poetry: The Talking Drum (1991), The Book of Monsters (1994), The Lost Sea (2000), and The Golden Ratio (2007), and a collection of essays, The Rhythm Method,

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Daniel Wolff - Poetry

WolffDaniel Daniel Wolff has published poetry in The Paris Review, Partisan Review, and Three Penny Review, among others.  His latest non-fiction book is How Lincoln Learned to Read: 12 Great Americans and the Educations That Made Them

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Kathleen Graber - Poetry

GraberKathleen Kathleen Graber is the author of two volumes of poetry, The Eternal City (Princeton UP, 2010), and Correspondence (Saturnalia Books, 2006). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Yorker

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