About the Poets
2017; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 11; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/19342039.2017.1302771
ISSN1934-2047
Tópico(s)Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
Resumo"About the Poets." Jung Journal, 11(2), pp. 18–19 CHARLES HARPER WEBB’s latest book, Brain Camp, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2015. A Million MFAs Are Not Enough, a collection of Webb’s essays on contemporary American poetry, was published in 2016 by Red Hen Press. Recipient of grants from the Whiting and Guggenheim foundations, Webb teaches creative writing at California State University, Long Beach. Correspondence: Charles.Webb@csulb.edu.LINDA PASTAN graduated from Radcliffe College in 1954 and received an MA from Brandeis University. She has published fourteen volumes of poetry, most recently Insomnia. Two of these books have been finalists for the National Book Award and one for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She has won numerous awards, including The Radcliffe Distinguished Alumni Award and The Maurice English Award. In 2003, she won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement. Pastan is a former Poet Laureate of Maryland and was on the staff of the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference for twenty years. Correspondence: 11710 Beall Mountain Road, Potomac MD 20854. Email: pastanlinda@gmail.com.DIANE GLANCY is professor emerita at Macalester College. Her 2014 to 2017 books are Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education, Report to the Department of the Interior, One of Us, Ironic Witness, Uprising of Goats, The Collector of Bodies: Concern for Syria and the Middle East, and QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM: the Keyboard Letters. She also edited an anthology, The World Is One Place, Native American Poets Visit the Middle East. Among her awards are two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, an American Book Award, and the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas. Correspondence: glancy@macalester.edu.ANN FISHER-WIRTH’s fourth book of poems is Dream Cabinet (Wings Press, 2012). With Laura-Gray Street, she coedited the groundbreaking Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press, 2013). Ann’s collaborative manuscript Mississippi with the photographer Maude Schuyler Clay will appear from Wings Press in 2017. Her poems appear widely and have received numerous awards, including the Rita Dove Poetry Prize, a Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, two Mississippi Commission for the Arts Poetry Fellowships, and the Mississippi Institute for Arts and Letters Poetry Award. She has been awarded residencies at The Mesa Refuge, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Hedgebrook, and the CAMAC/Centre d’Art, in Marnay, France. A Fellow of the Black Earth Institute, she teaches and directs the Environmental Studies program at the University of Mississippi. Correspondence: afwirth@olemiss.edu.MYRA SKLAREW, former president of Yaddo Artists Community, Professor Emerita at American University, and founder of the MFA Program in Creative Writing, has published seventeen books, including poetry, fiction, and essays. A Survivor Named Trauma: Holocaust and the Construction of Memory is forthcoming from SUNY Press. Her poetry has twice been recorded for the Library of Congress Contemporary Poet’s Series. She was educated at Tufts University, Johns Hopkins University, Cold Spring Harbor Biological Institute, the Radcliffe Institute, and the National Institutes of Health. She recently presented a paper, “The (Impossible) Reconciliation of Time,” at Rice University, and is co-editor, with Bruce Sklarew, of The Journey of Child Development (Routledge: Taylor & Francis).FRANCESCA BELL’s poems appear in many journals, including B O D Y, ELLE, New Ohio Review, North American Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her work has been nominated nine times for the Pushcart Prize, and she won the 2014 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor from Rattle. Her co-translations from Arabic appear in Berkeley Poetry Review, Blue Lyra Review, Circumference, Four by Two, and Laghoo. Her translations from German are forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review. She co-translated A Love That Hovers Like a Bedeviling Mosquito (Dar Fadaat, 2017) and is the author of Bright Stain (Red Hen Press, 2019). Correspondence: francescabell2@gmail.com.BRUCE SMITH is the author of six books of poems, most recently, Devotions, a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and is the winner of the William Carlos Williams Prize. Correspondence: bfsmith@syr.edu.ANDREW HUDGINS is Humanities Distinguished Professor in English Emeritus at The Ohio State University. His most recent books are The Joker: A Memoir (Simon and Schuster, 2013) and A Clown at Midnight (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013). Hudgins lives in Sewanee, Tennessee. Correspondence: ahudgins291@gmail.com.GEORGE WATSKY is a writer and musician from San Francisco whose cross-genre work weaves together irony, silliness, sincerity, and verbal gymnastics. Starting out as a teenager in the Bay Area’s performance poetry scene, he has gone on to tour extensively with his live band, cultivate a large online following, and write traditional prose, appearing on HBO’s Def Poetry, Ellen, and NPR. In 2016, he released both his newest album, x Infinity, executive produced by Russell Simmons, and his debut essay collection, How to Ruin Everything (Plume/Penguin/Random House), a New York Times bestseller. He is poetry editor Paul Watsky’s son. Correspondence: george.watsky@gmail.com.ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3709-4990ADRIAN BLEVINS is the author of Live from the Homesick Jamboree, The Brass Girl Brouhaha, two chapbooks, and a collection of essays she edited with Karen McElmurray—Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean: Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia. She is the recipient of many awards and honors, including a Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Foundation Award, a Bright Hill Press Chapbook Award, and, more recently, a pushcart prize, a Cohen Award from Ploughshares, and a Zone 3 Poetry Award. New poems have been recently published in American Poetry Review, North American Review, Crazyhorse, Copper Nickel, and other magazines. Blevins teaches at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Correspondence: ablevins@colby.edu.
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