Judith Harris’ books include The Bad Secret and Atonement (LSU Press), Night Garden (Tiger Bark), a critical book Signifying Pain: Constructing and Healing the Self (SUNY Press), and The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporary Elegies (Routledge). Her poems have appeared in The Nation, Atlantic, New Republic, Slate, Hudson Review, North American Review, Image, Alaska […]
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Beate Sigriddaughter (Goldman)
Poet laureate of Silver City, New Mexico, from May 2017 to April 2019, Beate Sigriddaughter grew up in Nürnberg, Germany, not far from the castle, reading fairy tales and playing in World War II ruins. In fact, in a corner of a covered walkway at the castle, she rewrote her first fairy tale at age […]
David Bristol
David Bristol was born in 1948 and grew up in Verona, New Jersey. He has a BA from New York University and a JD from The George Washington University. In addition to an earlier book, The Monk Who Made His Momma Happy, he has published poems in a number of magazines and anthologies. Mr. Bristol, […]
Gray Jacobik
Gray Jacobik is a widely anthologized poet: The Double Task was selected by James Tate for the Juniper Prize; The Surface of Last Scattering received the X. J. Kennedy Prize; Brave Disguises, the AWP Poetry Series Award. In 2016 The Banquet: New & Selected Poems received the William Meredith Award in Poetry. She’s been awarded […]
Greg Hannan
Greg Hannan was born in Washington, DC in 1950. As a poet, his works have been performed on radio both in the United States and Canada and have appeared in Cycloflame (San Angelo, Texas), A Shout In The Street (Queen’s College Press) and Gargoyle. As a painter, he has had one-man exhibitions in Washington, DC […]
Ron Rodriguez
Ron Rodriguez, Puerto Rican poet, studied with Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Anne Waldman at Naropa Institute. Has appeared in the following anthologies: The Trip-The Guide Through Contemporary Poetry-Yugoslavia, City Lights Anthology-S.F., Whose Woods These Are, WPFW Anthology, Hungry As We Are-D.C., and the following publications: New Directions Review, The World-N.Y.C., Big Scream-Grandville Mich., New […]
Barbara Lefcowitz
Barbara F. Lefcowitz (January 15, 1935 – October 8, 2015) was a co-founder of the Writer’s Center and an editor of Poet Lore magazine. A poet and fiction writers, as well as a visual artist (working primarily in oil on canvas), she published nine books of poems, including The Blue Train to America (2007), The […]
Ann Darr
Ann Darr was a prolific writer and author of eight books of poetry: Flying the Zuni Mountains, St. Ann’s Gut, The Myth of a Woman’s Fist, Riding With the Fireworks, Cleared for Landing, Do You Take This Woman, The Twelve Pound Cigarette, and Confessions of a Skewed Romantic. Ann’s poetry readings criss-crossed the world from […]
Myra Sklarew
Born in Baltimore, biologist, poet, and writer Myra Sklarew was educated at Tufts University, where she earned a BS in biology, and the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, where she earned an MA. She began her career in the sciences, studying at the Cold Spring Harbor Biological Laboratory with Salvador Luria and Max Delbruck, […]
Ann B. Knox
Ann B. Knox (January 31 1926 – May 2011) is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Breathing In (2011), Stonecrop (WWPH, 1988) and Staying is Nowhere (SCOP Publications, 1996); two poetry chapbooks: Reading the Tao at Eighty (Finishing Line Press, 2008) and The Dark Edge (Pudding House Press, 2004); and a book of short […]