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Issue I, Volume II : September 2010

Congeries - April 2010
A Poetry Congeries, with John Hoppenthaler - April 2010

“The Spring Poem,” an early poem by Dave Smith, appears in Cumberland Station as well as in The Roundhouse Voices: Selected and New Poems. Smith uses as epigraph and prompt Louise Gluck’s suggestion that “everyone should write a Spring poem.” 
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Santiago Vizcaíno translated by Alexis Levitin - Interview & Poetry

 

vizcano Santiago Vizcaíno has a degree in Communications and Literature from the Catholic Pontifical University of Ecuador. He has worked as an editor at the newspaper Hoy, at Superbrands Ecuador, and at the Office of Publications in Ecuador’s Benjamín Carrión Casa de la Cultura.
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Cynthia Cruz - Poetry

Cynthia Cruz is the author of Ruin, which was published in 2006 by Alice James Books. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, and others. Her second collection is forthcoming from Four Way Books. She currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College
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Dorianne Laux - Poetry

Dorianne Laux’s fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon (W.W. Norton), is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award. Laux is also author of Awake, What We Carry, and Smoke from BOA Editions, as well as Superman: The Chapbook and Dark Charms, both from Red Dragonfly Press. 
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Ray Gonzalez - Poetry


Ray Gonzalez is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.  His recent books of poetry are Cool Auditor: Prose Poems (BOA Editions, 2009) and Faith Run (U of Arizona P, 2009). His newest anthology is Sudden Fiction Latino:  Short Short Stories from the U.S. and Latin America (W.W. Norton, 2010), co-edited with Robert Shapard and James Thomas. 
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Michael Burkard - Poetry

Michael Burkard’s books include Envelope of Night, Unsleeping, Entire Dilemma, and My Secret Boat.  Nightboat Books will publish a book of poems in November, Lucky Coat Anywhere.  He teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Syracuse University.  His improvised songs are available at redhouseartradio.
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Daniel Tobin - Poetry

Daniel Tobin is the author of four books of poems, Where the World is Made, Double Life, The Narrows, and Second Things. His fifth collection, Belated Heavens, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2010. Among his awards are "The Discovery/The Nation Award," The Robert Penn Warren Award, the Robert Frost Fellowship,
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Rebecca Wolff - Poetry

Rebecca Wolff is the author of three books of poems (Manderley, Figment, The King) and a forthcoming novel, The Beginners (Riverhead, 2011). She is the founder and editor of Fence and Fence Books, and a fellow at the New York State Writers Institute.
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Michael Chitwood - Poetry

Michael Chitwood is a free-lance writer and teaches at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill. His poetry and fiction have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The New Republic, Threepenny Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Field,

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John Tranter - Poetry

John Tranter has published more than twenty collections of verse. His collection Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New and Selected (U of Queensland P, and Salt Publishing, Cambridge UK) won the Victorian state award for poetry in 2006, the New South Wales state award for poetry in 2007, the South Australian state award for poetry in 2008,
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John Burnside - Poetry

John Burnside’s first collection of poetry, The Hoop, was published in 1988 and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Other poetry collections include Common Knowledge (1991), Feast Days (1992), winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and The Asylum Dance (2000), winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award. 
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Rebecca Lindenberg - Poetry

Rebecca Lindenberg currently holds a Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center fellowship.  Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in The Believer, Colorado Review, No Tell Motel, Denver Quarterly, Barrow Street, POOL and elsewhere, and she is finishing a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing from the University of Utah.
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Debra Kang Dean - Poetry

Debra Kang Dean is the author of Back to Back, a chapbook of poems, and News of Home and Precipitates, both published by BOA Editions. Her poems have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily; have appeared in a number of anthologies, including The Best American Poetry, The New American Poets,
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Anne Townsend - Poetry

Ann Townsend is the author of two collections of poetry, Dime Store Erotics and The Coronary Garden, and the editor of a collection of essays, Radiant Lyre: on Lyric Poetry (with David Baker). Dominic Consolo Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Denison University, she also owns and operates Bittersweet Farm in Granville, OH.
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Baron Wormser - Poetry

Baron Wormser teaches in the Stonecoast MFA program and the Fairfield University MFA program and directs the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching in Franconia, New Hampshire. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,
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Jim Daniels - Poetry

Jim Daniels’ forthcoming books include Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry, Carnegie Mellon UP, and From Milltown to Malltown, a collaborative book with photographer Charlee Brodsky and writer Jane McCafferty, Marick Press. Both will be published in 2010.
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