April 2011

Congeries - April 2011

A Poetry Congeries with John Hoppenthaler: April 2011

I write this from a Country Inn & Suites hotel room in Boone, NC. Tonight I’ll give a reading from my poetry at Virginia Intermont College in Bristol, VA

Alice Friman - Poetry

Alice Friman’s ninth collection of poetry is Vinculum, from LSU Press. Previous books are The Book of the Rotten Daughter, Inverted Fire, and Zoo,

David St. John - Poetry

David St. John has been honored, over the course of his career, with many of the most significant prizes for poets,

Dan Albergotti - Poetry

Dan Albergotti is the author of The Boatloads (BOA Editions, 2008), selected by Edward Hirsch as the winner of the 2007 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize.

Natasha Sajé - Poetry

Natasha Sajé is the author of two books of poems, Red Under the Skin (Pittsburgh, 1994) and Bend (Tupelo Press, 2004), and many essays.

Robert Hedin - Poetry

Robert Hedin is the author, translator, and editor of nearly two dozen books of poetry and prose.

celeste doaks - Poetry

celeste doaks, a poet and journalist, is the recipient of the 2009 Academy of American Poets Graduate Prize and AWP WC&C Scholarship.

John Redmond - Poetry

John Redmond is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool. He has published two collections of poetry, MUDe (2008) and Thumb’s Width (2001)

Amy Tudor - Poetry

Amy Tudor’s first full-length collection of poetry, A Book of Birds, was the winner of the Liam Rector First Book Prize in Poetry

Thorpe Moeckel - Poetry

Thorpe Moeckel’s most recent book, Venison: a poem, was published in 2010 by Etruscan Press.

Sharon Fagan McDermott - Poetry

Sharon Fagan McDermott received the 2001 Pittsburgh Foundation’s artist award and a 2002 PA Council on the Arts award and is the author of two chapbooks