June 2012

Congeries - June 2012

I keep fighting the notion that poetry makes nothing happen. To believe this is to render hope null and void.

Mitchell L. H. Douglas is the author of Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem, nominated for a 2010 NAACP Image Award,

Jan Beatty’s new book, The Switching Yard, will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in spring, 2013.

Michael Pettit’s most recent book is Riding for the Brand; a new work of nonfiction on New Mexico traditional arts is forthcoming this fall.

Aleš Debeljak has published eight books of poetry and twelve books of essays in Slovenian.

Kara Candito is the author of Taste of Cherry (U of Nebraska P), winner of the 2008 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry.

Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He has published one collection, Far District: Poems (Peepal Tree Press Limited, 2010),

Craig Challender teaches American literature, myth and creative writing at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia,

Daniel Nathan Terry, a former landscaper and horticulturist, is the author of Capturing the Dead (NFSPS 2008),

Sally Bliumis-Dunn teaches Modern Poetry and Creative Writing at Manhattanville College.