FGE - Poetry November 2009

Maggie Glover - Poetry

MaggieGlover.jpg Maggie Glover earned a BA from Denison University and an MFA from West Virginia University, where she was awarded the James Paul Brawner Poetry Award in 2007.

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Paula McLain - Poetry

PaulaMcClain.jpg Paula McLain has published two collections of poetry Less of Her and Stumble, Gorgeous, both from New Issues Poetry Press, as well as a memoir about growing up in foster care, Like Family: Growing Up In Other People’s Houses, and the novel, A Ticket to Ride, which was published by Ecco in 2008 and named a “top read” by the Today Show.

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Alan Michael Parker - Poetry

AlanMichaelParker.jpg Alan Michael Parker is the author of five collections of poems, Days Like Prose, The Vandals, Love Song with Motor Vehicles, A Peal of Sonnets, and Elephants & Butterflies, as well as a novel, Cry Uncle; he is also Editor of The Imaginary Poets, and co-editor of two scholarly works.

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Eleni Sikelianos - Poetry

EleniSikelianos.jpg Eleni Sikelianos is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Body Clock and The California Poem, as well as a hybrid memoir, The Book of Jon.  Her translation of Jacques Roubaud’s Exchanges on Light appeared in 2009.

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Jane Varley - Poetry

JaneVarley.jpg Jane Varley is the author of a memoir, Flood Stage and Rising, published in 2005 by the University of Nebraska Press. She has published poems and reviews of poetry and fiction in literary magazines, and her nonfiction writing recently won an individual artist grant from the Ohio Arts Council.

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Gail Wronsky - Poetry

GailWronsky.jpg Gail Wronsky is the author of nine books of poetry and prose, most recently Blue Shadow Behind Everything Dazzling (Poems from India), and Bling & Fringe (The LA Poems), coauthored with Molly Bendall. Her essay "In Sickness" will appear this month in The Black Body, an anthology of essays edited by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah.

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