January 2013

Saturday Dec 21

On Hiatus

Congeries - January 2013

A Poetry Congeries with John Hoppenthaler: January 2013

Homage for Jake Adam York

Tyehimba Jess - Poetry

Tyehimba Jess’ first book of poetry, leadbelly, was a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. The Library Journal and Black Issues Book Review both named it one of the “Best Poetry Books of 2005.” Jess received a 2004 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and was a 2004-5 Winter Fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Jess is also a veteran of the 2000 and 2001 Green Mill Poetry Slam Team, and won a 2000 – 2001 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry,

Margaret Randall - Poetry

Margaret Randall lived for many years in Mexico, Cuba and Nicaragua. When she returned home to the U.S. in 1984, the government ordered her deported

CM Burroughs - Poetry

CM Burroughs has been a fellow of Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, and the Cave Canem Foundation. The Vital System, her debut collection

Troy Jollimore - Poetry

Troy Jollimore is the author of two books of poetry: At Lake Scugog (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 2011) and Tom Thomson in Purgatory

Michael Miller - Poetry

Michael Miller's poems have appeared in such publications as The Sewanee Review, The Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, The New Republic,

Kathleen Flenniken - Poetry

Kathleen Flenniken is the 2012 – 2014 Poet Laureate of Washington State. Her first book, Famous (U of Nebraska P, 2006), won the

Maggie Glover - Poetry

Maggie Glover is originally from Pittsburgh, PA. Her poetry has appeared in The Journal, Smartish Pace, Tygerburning, Verse Daily,

Lucy Anderton - Poetry

Lucy Anderton lives in a 500-year-old brothel at the level of the tree tops. Her poems have appeared in, among others,

Stephen Haven - Poetry

Stephen Haven is the author of The Last Sacred Place in North America, selected by T.R. Hummer as winner of the 2010 New American Press Poetry Prize.

June Sylvester Saraceno - Poetry

June Sylvester Saraceno is author of the poetry collection Altars of Ordinary Light, as well as a chapbook of prose poems,