January 2015

Congeries - January 2015

A Poetry Congeries with John Hoppenthaler: January 2015

It has been a year of great loss in the poetry community. I could have focused on any one of a handful of 2014 poet deaths

Jennifer Whitaker is the author of The Blue Hour, winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry and forthcoming in 2016 from

Eamonn Wall, a native of Ireland, has lived in the US since 1982. He is the author of seven collections of poetry including

Nate Marshall is from the South Side of Chicago. He is co-editor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the

Corey Van Landingham is a Wallace C. Stegner Poetry Fellow at Stanford University, and the author of Antidote (Ohio

Peter Meinke is St. Petersburg’s Poet Laureate. His fiction and poetry have appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker,

Catherine Pierce is the author of The Girls of Peculiar (Saturnalia, 2012), winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and

Mark Neely is the author of Beasts of the Hill (winner of the FIELD Poetry Prize) and Dirty Bomb (forthcoming 2015), both

Hastings Hensel is the author of the forthcoming Winter Inlet, winner of the 2014-2015 Unicorn Press First Book Contest,

Caki Wilkinson is the author of the poetry collections Circles Where the Head Should Be (UNT Press, 2011), which won