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FGE - Poetry November 2009
Featured Guest Editor - Jim Harms: November 2009
What I love about American poetry these days isn’t that anything goes; rather, I find myself grateful that so very much is possible. I’ve always been frustrated with aesthetic intolerance, impatient with stylistic chauvinism. There isn’t just one way to write a poem, and there isn’t just one way to arrive at meaning. I didn’t set out to prove these arguments when putting together this feature; in fact, I didn’t set out to do much of anything, other than gather up a terrific group of poems and poets. So here they are.
Tomaž Šalamun - Poetry Translated by Brian Henry
Tomaž Šalamun was born in 1941 in Zagreb, but grew up in Koper, a coastal town in Slovenia south of Trieste. In 1966 he graduated in Art History from Ljubljana University. Šalamun, who won the Prešeren Prize in 2000, was the leading figure of the Slovenian poetic avant-garde in the 1960s and in the 1970s.
Christopher Buckley - Poetry
Christopher Buckley’s 17th book of poetry, Rolling the Bones, won the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry and will be published by the University of Tampa Press in April, 2010.
Mark Brazaitis - Poetry
Mark Brazaitis is the author of The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala, winner of the 1998 Iowa Short Fiction Award, and Steal My Heart, a novel published in 2000 by Van Neste Books. His latest book of fiction, An American Affair: Stories, won the 2004 George Garrett Fiction Prize from Texas Review Press.
Frank X Walker - Poetry
Frank X Walker is a Lannan Poetry Fellowship winner and a graduate of the University of Kentucky, and Spalding University.
Ben Doller - Poetry
Ben Doller (previously Doyle) was born in Warsaw, New York, in 1973. He completed his undergraduate education at the State University of New York at Oswego and West Virginia University.
Aleksander Blok - Poetry Translated by Ilya Kaminsky
Александр Блок (Aleksander Blok) November 28, 1880-August 7, 1921 was one of the most gifted lyrical poets produced by Russia after Alexander Pushkin.
Jacqueline Gens - Poetry
Jacqueline Gens is a co-founder of the New England College MFA Program in Poetry where she has been co-director since 2001.
Brian Henry - Poetry
Brian Henry is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Stripping Point (Counterpath). His translation of the Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun’s Woods and Chalices (Harcourt) appeared in 2008, and his translation of Aleš Šteger’s The Book of Things is forthcoming from BOA Editions.
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