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/Suzanne ClearySuzanne Cleary writes poems of lyric clarity and narrative complexity, those in her first book Keeping Time described by Billy Collins as "strung together by daring chains of association." Cleary's national awards include a Pushcart Prize and the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, and residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Her poems have appeared in journals including Atlantic Monthly, Georgia Review, Southern Review, and Poetry London. |
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Kathleen OssipKathleen Ossip’s most recent book of poems is July. She is also the author The Do-Over, which was a New York Times Editors' Choice; The Cold War, which was one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2011; and The Search Engine, selected by Derek Walcott for the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize; and Cinephrastics, a chapbook of movie poems. Her poems, essays, and fiction have appeared widely in such publications as The Washington Post, The Best American Poetry, and much more. |
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Michael DoucetThe National Endowment for the Arts honored Michael Doucet, fiddler, composer, and bandleader, as perhaps the single most important figure in the revitalization of Cajun music in the United States. Michael Doucet's Website |
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Sheryl St. GermainSheryl St. Germain is an American poet, essayist, and professor. She is of Cajun and Creole descent. Her father was Jules St. Francois St. Germain and her mother Myrl Marie Frank. Born and raised in south Louisiana, much of her work deals with the culture and environment of Louisiana. |
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J. Bruce FullerHe is the author of How to Drown a Boy (LSU Press, 2024). His chapbooks include The Dissenter's Ground, Lancelot, and Flood, and his poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Crab Orchard Review, McNeese Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Best New Poets 2022, among others. He has received scholarships from Bread Loaf, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Stanford University, where he was a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow. He currently teaches at Sam Houston State University, where he is Director of Texas Review Press. |
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Patricia SmithPatricia Smith An American poet, spoken-word performer, playwright, author, writing teacher, and former journalist. She has published poems in literary magazines and journals including TriQuarterly, Poetry, The Paris Review, Tin House, and in anthologies including American Voices and The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry.[1] She is on the faculties of the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing[2] and the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Sierra Nevada University and more. |
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Jack B. BedellJack B. Bedell is Professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also edits Louisiana Literature and directs the Louisiana Literature Press. His latest collection is No Brother, This Storm (Mercer University Press, fall 2018). He served as Louisiana Poet Laureate from 2017-2019. |
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Randy GonzalesHis book Settling St. Malo won the 2024 Summerlee Book Prize–Creative. The award recognizes book-length publications that best enrich our knowledge of the past, present, and future of Southeast Texas and the greater Gulf Coast. |
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Joan KlonglassJoan Kwon Glass is the mixed-race, Korean diasporic author of DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS(winner of the 2024 Perugia Press Poetry Prize) & NIGHT SWIM (winner of the 2022 Diode Editions Book Award), as well as the chapbooks HOW TO MAKE PANCAKES FOR A DEAD BOY(Harbor Editions, 2022) & IF RUST CAN GROW ON THE MOON(Milk & Cake Press, 2022). Her books & poems have been featured in many publications. |
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Ava Leavell HaymonPoet Laureate of the State of Louisiana, her most recent poetry collection is Eldest Daughter, published by Louisiana State University Press. She has written three previous collections, Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread, Kitchen Heat, and The Strict Economy of Fire, all also from LSU Press. |
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Darrell BourqueHe is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Until We Talk (Etruscan Press, 2024); Migraré (University of Louisiana Press, 2019); Where I Waited (Self-published, 2016); Megan’s Guitar and Other Poems from Acadie (University of Louisiana Press, 2013); Call and Response: Conversations in Verse (Texas Review Press, 2010), coauthored with Jack B. Bedell; In Ordinary Light: New and Selected Poems (University of Louisiana Press, 2010); From the Other Side: Henriette Delille (Self-published, 2019); and The Blue Boat (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2004). Bourque served as Louisiana’s poet laureate for two terms from 2007 to 2011. |
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Brad RichardBrad Richard is the author of four books of poems (Habitations, Motion Studies, Butcher’s Sugar, Parasite Kingdom) and three chapbooks (The Men in the Dark, Curtain Optional, Larval Songs], and has published poems and reviews in many journals, including Green Mountains Review, New Orleans Review, Plume, Guernica, American Letters & Commentary, Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review and Massachusetts Review. |
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Rae Marie TaylorWelcome, Bienvenue and Bienvenido to the website of Rae Marie Taylor, poet, interdisciplinary artist and workshop facilitator. This is the place you can find news and information concerning her publications, Spoken Word performances, and visual art in both her worlds, Quebec, the American Southwest, and beyond. We have a few recent posts for you on this page. If you’d like to see news from previous years, click on “Load More Posts” below. Whether then or now, may you enjoy finding what you seek here! |
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Laura Zinn FrommShe teaches fiction and creative nonfiction workshops, edits books, personal essays and short stories and runs writing retreats through her business, Sweet Lab Writing Workshops. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Huffington Post, Brevity, Eat, Darling, Eat, The Forward, The Girlfriend, the Opiate, and elsewhere. She is the author of Sweet Survival: Tales of Cooking & Coping, and is writing a memoir, Sunshine & Neurotransmitters, and a short story collection, Flowering: Numbers & Stories. |