Issue IX, Volume IV : May 2013
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A Poetry Congeries, with John Hoppenthaler - September 2009
The impulse behind this monthly feature, a guest-edited poetry congeries, isn’t altogether new. Indeed, I’ve long admired Ploughshares, a journal committed to this principle. An eclectic soul, I’m excited by journals that offer aesthetic surprises, nods to possibilities beyond a single editor’s vision.
John Allman - Poetry with Q&A
John Allman's seventh collection of poetry, Lowcountry, was published in fall 2007 by New Directions. His first, Walking Four Ways in the Wind, was published in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets (Princeton University Press 1979). Subsequent poetry books include Clio’s Children (1985), Scenarios for a Mixed Landscape (1986), Curve Away from Stillness: Science Poems (1989) and Loew’s Triboro (2004) (declared a Best Book of 2004 in The Bloomsbury Review), all published by New Directions, which also published Allman's first fiction collection, Descending Fire & Other Stories (1994).
Carey Salerno - Poetry
Carey Salerno is the Executive Director of Alice James Books, a nonprofit cooperative poetry press. She has a MFA in creative writing from New England College. Carey's poems appear on From the Fishouse, and in Natural Bridge, The Dirty Napkin, and Rattle. Her first book, Shelter, won a 2007 Kinereth Gensler Award. She lives in western Maine.
William Heyen - Poetry
William Heyen is Professor of English/Poet in Residence Emeritus at SUNY Brockport, his undergraduate alma mater. A former Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature in Germany, he has won NEA, Guggenheim, American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters, and other fellowships and awards.
Richard Jackson - Poetry
Richard Jackson is the author of 9 books of poems, most recently Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems and Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems. Resonance will appear in 2010. His translation of Aleksander Persolja's Journey of The Sun appeared in Slovenia and he is the author of two critical books, two anthologies of Slovene poetry,
Shara McCallum - Poetry
Shara McCallum has published two books of poems: Song of Thieves (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003) and The Water Between Us (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999, winner of the 1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize). Her poems appear in literary journals in the US and abroad, have been reprinted in over
David Lehman - Poetry
David Lehman's latest books are A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs (2009; Nextbook / Schocken) and Yeshiva Boys, a book of poems (2009; Scribner). He is the editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, and the poetry coordinator of the New School's graduate writing program in New York City.
Kathryn Stripling Byer - Poetry
Kathryn Stripling Byer has published five books of poetry including Wildwood Flower, (LSU , 1992, Lamont Selection of the Academy of American Poets), Catching Light, (LSU, 2001, SIBA BOOK of the Year in Poetry) and Coming to Rest (LSU, 2006). She is the 2007 recipient of the Hanes Award in Poetry from the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
Erin Murphy - Poetry
Erin Murphy is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Dislocation and Other Theories (Word Press, 2008). With Todd Davis, she is co-editor of Making Poems: 40 Poems with Commentary by the Poets (forthcoming from State University of New York Press). She teaches English and creative writing at The Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College.