A Poetry Congeries with John Hoppenthaler: February 2011
From 1985 until I graduated with an MFA in 1988, I was a student at Virginia Commonwealth University. My thesis advisor was the important Southern poet, Dave Smith.
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Congeries - February 2011
From 1985 until I graduated with an MFA in 1988, I was a student at Virginia Commonwealth University. My thesis advisor was the important Southern poet, Dave Smith.
James Applewhite - Poetry
James Applewhite was born in 1935 in Stantonsburg, North Carolina, and he is the author of eight books of poetry include Selected Poems (Duke UP, 2005), A Diary of Altered Light (LSU, 2006),
Dave Smith - Poetry
Dave Smith's new collection of poems, Faces Flared with Gold, will appear from Louisiana State University Press in Fall 2011.
Patrick Lane - Poetry
Patrick Lane was born in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada, in 1939 and has no formal education beyond high school in Vernon, B.C. Much of his life after 1968 has been spent as an itinerant poet, wandering over three continents and many countries.
Cheryl Dumesnil - Poetry
Cheryl Dumesnil, winner of the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, is the author of In Praise of Falling, editor of Hitched! Wedding Stories from San Francisco City Hall,
Nathalie Handal - Poetry
Nathalie Handal is an award-winning poet, playwright, and editor. She teaches and lectures nationally and internationally, most recently in Africa, at Columbia University and as Picador Guest Professor, Leipzig University, Germany.
Alfonso D'Aquino translated by Forrest Gander - Poetry
Alfonso D’Aquino, born in Mexico City in 1959, is the author of many books, including Vibora breve (Small Viper) and Piedra no piedra (Rock No Rock).
John Bensko - Poetry
John Bensko is the author of one collection of short stories (Sea Dogs, Graywolf Press) and three books of poetry: Green Soldiers (Yale UP),
Elizabeth Seydel Morgan - Poetry
Elizabeth Seydel Morgan is the author of four books of poetry—Parties (1988), The Governor of Desire (1993), On Long Mountain: Poems (1998), and Without a Philosophy (2007)
Stuart Dischell - Poetry
Stuart Dischell is the author of Good Hope Road, a 1991 National Poetry Series Selection, (Viking, 1993), Evenings & Avenues (Penguin, 1996), Dig Safe (Penguin, 2003), and Backwards Days (Penguin, 2007).
Wendy Mnookin - Poetry
Wendy Mnookin lives in Newton, Massachusetts. Her most recent book is The Moon Makes Its Own Plea (BOA Editions, 2008).
Alexander Long - Poetry
Alexander Long's books include Vigil (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2006) and Light Here, Light There (C&R Press, 2009).