In the fall, I am scheduled to teach a graduate seminar entitled Reading and Writing the Political Poem. I recently returned from the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference, and I was struck there by how many of the hundreds of panel offerings had something to do with poetry and politics.
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Medbh McGuckian was born in 1950 in Belfast where she lives with her family. She has been Writer-in-Residence at Queen’s University, Belfast (where she teaches at the Seamus Heaney Centre), the University of Ulster, Coleraine, and Trinity College, Dublin,
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Sandy Tseng is the author of Sediment, published by Four Way Books in October 2009. Among her awards are The Nation's Discovery Award, the Louis Untermeyer Tuition Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Vira I. Heinz Foundation scholarship.
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Renée Ashley is the author of four volumes of poetry—Salt (Brittingham Prize in Poetry, U of Wisconsin P), The Various Reasons of Light, The Revisionist's Dream, and Basic Heart (X. J. Kennedy Prize, Texas Review Press)—as well as two chapbooks,
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Deborah Brown's Walking the Dog's Shadow is the 2010 winner of the A. J. Poulin Jr. Award from BOA Editions. Brown is an editor, with Maxine Kumin and Annie Finch, of Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics (U of Arkansas P, 2005). She is a translator, with Richard Jackson and Susan Thomas, of The Last Voyage: Selected Poems by Giovanni Pascoli
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Brendan Galvin is the author of sixteen collections of poems. Habitat: New and Selected Poems 1965-2005 (LSU Press) was a finalist for the National Book Award. Ocean Effects appeared in fall, 2007. His translation of Sophocles’ Women of Trachis appeared in the Penn Greek Drama Series in 1998.
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Dan Masterson was elected to membership in Pen International in 1986 and is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, the Bullis, Borestone, and Fels awards, and is the founding editor of the internet’s Enskyment Poetry Anthology. A third collection, World Without End,
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Grace Cavalieri's most recent book of poems is Sounds Like Something I Would Say (2010). Her 22nd play, Lena's Quilt, premiered Feb and March in NYC museums and libraries. She founded and still produces public radio's The Poet and the Poem,
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Heather Hartley is the author of Knock Knock (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2010) and Paris Editor for Tin House magazine. Her poems, essays and interviews have appeared in Tin House, Mississippi Review, Post Road and other magazines, and numerous anthologies, including Food and Booze: A Tin House Literary Feast;
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