May 2011

Congeries - May 2011

“There are no secular poems,” Donald Revell insists in my interview with him. I agree; I always have.

Donald Revell is the author of eleven collections of poetry, most recently of The Bitter Withy (2009)

Roxane Beth Johnson’s first book of poetry is Jubilee (Anhinga, 2006), was the winner of the 2005 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry.

Jane Springer’s first book, Dear Blackbird, won the Agha Shaid Ali prize (U of Utah P, 2007).

Earl Sherman Braggs is a Battle/UC Foundation Professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Sandra Meek is the author of three books of poems, Biogeography, winner of the Dorset Prize (Tupelo, 2008),

Richard Jarrette is author of Beso The Donkey (Michigan State UP).

Deborah Bogen's three prize-winning works are Let Me Open You a Swan, Landscape with Silos and Living by the Children's Cemetery.

Laura Hope-Gill is founding director of Asheville Wordfest and the first poet laureate of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Andrea Witzke Slot (also published as Andrea Witzke Leavey) is currently teaching at the University of Illinois at Chicago.