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Heidi Seaborn is the author of [PANK] 2020 Poetry Award winner An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe (2021), Give a Girl Chaos (C&R Press/Mastodon Books, 2019) and the 2020 Comstock Prize Chapbook, Bite Marks, as well as chapbooks, Finding My Way Home and Once a Diva. Since Heidi started writing in 2016, she’s won or been shortlisted for over two dozen awards. Her work has recently appeared in American Poetry Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Copper Nickel, The Cortland Review, The Greensboro Review, The Missouri Review, The Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith, Tinderbox Poetry Journal and elsewhere. She is Executive Editor of The Adroit Journal, on the board of Tupelo Press and holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU.

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Diane Seuss was born in Indiana and raised in Michigan. She earned a BA from Kalamazoo College and an MSW from Western Michigan University. Seuss is the author of the poetry collections Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (2018); Four-Legged Girl (2015), finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (2010), winner of the 2009 Juniper Prize for Poetry; and It Blows You Hollow (1998). Her work has appeared in Poetry, the Georgia Review, Brevity, Able Muse, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and the Missouri Review, as well as The Best American Poetry 2014. She was the MacLean Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of English at Colorado College in 2012, and she has taught at Kalamazoo College since 1988.

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Jesse Bertron is a plumber's apprentice living in Austin, Texas. He has an MFA in Poetry from Vanderbilt University. He is co-director of Poetry at Round Top, an annual festival in rural Texas.

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Tiana Clark is the author of the poetry collection, I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and Equilibrium (Bull City Press, 2016), selected by Afaa Michael Weaver for the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Clark is a winner for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award (Claremont Graduate University), a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, a recipient of a 2019 Pushcart Prize, a winner of the 2017 Furious Flower’s Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial Poetry Prize, and the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize. She was the 2017-2018 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. Clark is the recipient of scholarships and fellowships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Sewanee Writers' Conference, and Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (M.F.A) and Tennessee State University (B.A.) where she studied Africana and Women's studies. Her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Washington Post, VQR, Tin House Online, Kenyon Review, BuzzFeed News, American Poetry Review, New England Review, Oxford American, Best New Poets 2015, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.

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Julie E. Bloemeke’s first full-length collection of  poetry, Slide to Unlock, debuted with Sibling Rivalry Press in March 2020.  Chosen by  Stephen Dunn as finalist for the 2016 May Swenson Poetry Award through University Press of Colorado and Utah State University Press, Slide to Unlock has also been a semifinalist in numerous book prizes including the Crab Orchard Review First Book Award and the Crab Orchard Review Poetry Open Competition with Southern Illinois University Press; the Washington Prize through Word Works; and the Hudson Prize through Black Lawrence Press. 

A  fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Bloemeke earned her MA in American Literature from the University of South Carolina–where she was a Ramsaur Fellow–and her MFA in poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary magazines including Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, Cortland Review, Pine Hills Review, Crab Orchard Review, Muse/A Journal, Chautauqua Literary Journal, Poet Lore, and others.  Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in a number of anthologies including:  Mother Mary Comes to Me: A Popculture Poetry Anthology, The Pandemic Poetry Anthology, A Constellation of Kisses, Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse, The Great Gatsby Anthology, The Sense of the Midlands,  The Nancy Drew Anthology, The Southern Poetry Anthology Volume V: Georgia and the My Cruel Invention Anthology, among others.

In addition to serving as a literary docent with the Toledo Museum of Art, she was the inaugural Poetry Director for the Milton Literary Festival in Georgia in 2016.  She was also the 2020 judge for the Robert V. Morea III Poetry Prize through Georgia State University and served as the 2021 judge for the Bryon Herbert Reece International Poetry Award. She recently co-edited a tribute issue of Limp Wrist for Dolly Parton's 75th birthday in January 202 and is a proud native of Toledo, Ohio.

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Jane Hirshfield, named “among the modern masters” by The Washington Post, is one of the leading voices for the environment in American poetry. She is the author of nine poetry books, including Ledger (Knopf, 2020); The Beauty, long-listed for the 2015 National Book Award; and Given Sugar, Given Salt,, finalist for the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of two now-classic books of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform The World, and is editor/co-translator of four books collecting the work of world poets from the deep past, including the anthology Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women. 

Hirshfield's honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and The Academy of American Poets; the California Book Award and Poetry Center Book Award; and best book of the year selections from The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and England’s Financial Times. A former chancellor of The Academy of American Poets,  Hirshfield’s poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, Poetry, and ten editions of The Best American Poetry. 

In April 2017 she founded, in conjunction with the first March for Science, Poets For Science, a digital and traveling project and exhibition housed at the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State, Ohio. While never a full time academic, she has taught at Stanford, UC Berkeley, Bennington’s MFA Seminars, and numerous writing conferences, and has also guest-edited volumes of The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Ploughshares, and The Alaska Quarterly Review. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages. In 2019, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

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Christopher Kempf is the author of What Though the Field Be Lost, forthcoming from LSU Press, and Late in the Empire of Men, which won the 2015 Levis Prize from Four Way Books and has been reviewed widely, including in The New York Times.

Recipient of a Pushcart Prize, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, his work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2020, Boston Review, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, The New Republic, and PEN America, among others.

Kempf holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Chicago and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Illinois.

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Srikanth Reddy's latest book of poetry is Underworld Lit (Wave Books, 2020). His previous book, Voyager, was named one of the best books of poetry in 2011 by The New Yorker, The Believer, and National Public Radio; his first collection, Facts for Visitors, received the 2005 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. Reddy's poetry and criticism have appeared in Harper's, The Guardian, The New York Times, Poetry, and numerous other venues; his book of criticism, Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry, was published by Oxford University Press in 2012. A recipient of fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, he is currently Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago.

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John Murillo is the author of the poetry collections, Up Jump the Boogie (Cypher 2010, Four Way 2020), finalist for both the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Pen Open Book Award, and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry (forthcoming from Four Way Books 2020). His honors include a Pushcart Prize, the J Howard and Barbara MJ Wood Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Cave Canem Foundation, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and Best American Poetry 2017, 2019, and 2020. He is an assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University and also teaches in the low residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada College.

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Born in St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. and raised in Apopka, Florida, Nicole Sealey is the author of Ordinary Beast, finalist for the PEN Open Book and Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Her honors include a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review, a Daniel Varoujan Award from the New England Poetry Club and a Poetry International Prize, grants from the Elizabeth George and Jerome Foundations, as well as fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, CantoMundo, Cave Canem, MacDowell, The New York Foundation for the Arts and the Poetry Project. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2018, The New Yorker, The New York Times and elsewhere. Formerly the executive director at Cave Canem Foundation, she is a visiting professor at Boston University, City College of New York and Syracuse University, and also teaches in New York University’s low-residency MFA writers workshop in Paris.

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Tess Taylor is poetry critic for NPR’s All Things Considered, and a columnist for CNN. She is the author of Rift Zone (Red Hen Press, 2020); Work & Days (Red Hen Press, 2016), named one of the best poetry books of 2016 by The New York Times; The Forage House (Red Hen Press, 2013), a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award; and the chapbook The Misremembered World, which was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship. She is also author of Last West, a book length commission from the Museum of Modern Art, published in conjunction with the MOMA show, Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures (2020). Taylor’s work has appeared in The Atlantic, Kenyon Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Times Literary Supplement, CNN, and many other venues. Taylor has also served as Distinguished Fulbright US Scholar at the Seamus Heaney Centre in Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Nate Klug is the author of Rude Woods, a modern translation of Virgil’s Eclogues (The Song Cave, 2013), and two books of poetry, Anyone (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and Hosts and Guests (Princeton University Press, 2020). His poems have appeared in The Nation, the New York Review of Books, and Best American Poetry, and his writing has been supported by fellowships from the James Merrill House, the MacDowell Colony, and the Poetry Foundation. Nate is also an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. He currently serves as the pastor of Arlington Community Church in the Bay Area of California, and he teaches poetry through the Center for Arts and Religion at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.

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Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina, and a Teaching Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the author of two poetry collections River Hymns 2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize winner and Cardinal forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press 2020. Daye is a Cave Canem fellow. Daye won the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellowship, 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-In-Residence at UC Santa Barbara, and is a 2019 Kate Tufts Finalist. Daye most recently was awarded a 2019 Whiting Writers Award.

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Hannah VanderHart is a poet based in Durham, North Carolina. She has poetry, reviews and nonfiction published in Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, AGNI, Southern Humanities Review, The Adroit Journal, Chattahoochee Review, Poetry Northwest, Poetry International, RHINO Poetry, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The Greensboro Review, and is the author of the poetry chapbook Hands like Birds (Ethel Zine Press, 2019) and the poetry collection What Pecan Light (forthcoming from Bull City Press, Spring 2021). Her works-in-progress include the poetry collection Larks and the essay collection Confederate Monument Removal. Hannah is the reviews editor at EcoTheo Review and a member of the National Book Critics Circle.

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Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a poet, literary translator, editor, and zheng harpist who writes and translates in English, French, Chinese, and occasionally Spanish. She is the author of four books of poetry: Water the Moon (2010), My Funeral Gondola (2013), The Ruined Elegance (2016), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and one of Library Journal’s Best Poetry Books, and most recently, the much anticipated Rain in Plural (2020), from Princeton Univ. Press. She has translated several volumes of contemporary Chinese-language, French, and American poets, and guest/coedited three anthologies of international literature.

Sze-Lorrain's work was shortlisted for the 2016 Best Translated Book Award and longlisted for the 2014 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. In 2018, she was the inaugural writer-in-residence at Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires. She serves as an editor at Vif Éditions, a small independent press based in Paris. As a zheng musician, she has performed worldwide.

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Dan Beachy-Quick is the author of eight collections of poems – including, most recently, Arrows (2020, Tupelo Press) – a novel, six chapbooks (two in collaboration with Srikanth Reddy), and other projects. His 2019 collection, Variations on Dawn and Dusk was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award. His poems have appeared widely in literary journals, including The Boston Review, The New Republic, Poetry, Chicago Review, Paris Review, and New American Writing. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Southern Review, The Poker, Rain Taxi, The Denver Quarterly, Interim, and other venues.

The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University, Beachy-Quick has also received the Colorado Book Award and has been a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Prize and the PEN/USA Literary Award in Poetry. He is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation residency, and has taught at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University, where he serves as assistant chair of the English Department and teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

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Catherine Pierce is the author of four books of poems: Danger Days, forthcoming from Saturnalia Books in October 2020; The Tornado Is the World (Saturnalia 2016), The Girls of Peculiar (Saturnalia 2012), and Famous Last Words (Saturnalia 2008), winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Both The Tornado Is the World and The Girls of Peculiar won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Prize.

Pierce’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Nation, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, New England Review, FIELD, Pleiades, Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, and the 2019 and 2021 Pushcart Prize anthologies. Her essays appear in The New York Times, The Rumpus, The Millions, Cincinnati Review, and River Teeth. In 2019, she was named a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow. She is professor of English and co-director of the creative writing program at Mississippi State University.

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Marcus Wicker is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Pushcart Prize, The Missouri Review's Miller Audio Prize, as well as fellowships from Cave Canem, and the Fine Arts Work Center. His first collection Maybe the Saddest Thing (Harper Perennial), a National Poetry Series winner, was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award.

Wicker's poems have appeared in The Nation, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Oxford American, and Boston Review. His second book, Silencer—also an Image Award finalist—was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2017 and won the Society of Midland Authors Award, as well as the Arnold Adoff Poetry Award for New Voices. Marcus teaches in the MFA program at the University of Memphis, and he is the poetry editor of Southern Indiana Review.

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Joanna Klink is the author of four books of poetry. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies, most recently Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now and The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth Century Poetry. She has received awards and fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Jeannette Haien Ballard, Civitella Ranieri, the Bogliasco Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Trust of Amy Lowell, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Her new book, The Nightfields, was published by Penguin in July.

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Rita Dove is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Dove also received an appointment as "special consultant in poetry" for the Library of Congress's bicentennial year from 1999 to 2000. Dove received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1987, for Thomas and Beulah, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Her Collected Poems: 1974-2004 were published by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. in 2016. Dove has received 28 honorary doctorates, and is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

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Esteban Rodríguez is the author of the poetry collections Dusk & Dust, Crash Course, In Bloom, (Dis)placement, and The Valley. His poetry has appeared in Boulevard, Shenandoah, The Rumpus, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. He is the Interviews Editor for the EcoTheo Review, an Assistant Poetry Editor for AGNI, and a regular reviews contributor for [PANK] and Heavy Feather Review. He lives in Austin, Texas.

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Joy Priest is the author of HORSEPOWER (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. She is the recipient of the 2020 Kunitz Prize and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, APR, The Atlantic, Poetry Northwest, and Poets & Writers, among others. She is currently a doctoral student in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Houston.

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Acclaimed poet Tess Taylor is poetry critic for NPR’s All Things Considered, and a columnist for CNN. Her most recent book is Rift Zone (Red Hen Press, 2020), which the Los Angeles Times called “brilliant.” In his introduction to the collection, Ilya Kaminsky describes Taylor’s voice as “invaluable” and she is a “poet for our moment.” Her other books include Work & Days (Red Hen Press, 2016), named one of the best poetry books of 2016 by The New York Times; The Forage House (Red Hen Press, 2013), a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award which The San Francisco Chronicle called “stunning,” and the chapbook The Misremembered World, which was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship. In February 2020, Last West, an exciting book length commission from the Museum of Modern Art, was published in conjunction with the MOMA show, Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures. Her work explores California and the American West, her life as a critic, and the intersection of poetry and journalism.

Taylor’s work has appeared in The Atlantic, Kenyon Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Times Literary Supplement, CNN, and many other venues. Taylor has also served as Distinguished Fulbright US Scholar at the Seamus Heaney Centre in Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She grew up and lives again in El Cerrito, California.

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander is a poet, writer, translator, and editor of several anthologies of writing from Spain and Mexico. He is celebrated for the richness of his language and his undaunted lyric passion. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including collaborations with notable artists and photographers.

Be With, Gander’s most recent collection, was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award. His 2011 poetry collection Core Samples from the World was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books include two novels, As A Friend and The Trace; the poetry collections Be With, Eye Against Eye, Torn Awake, Science & Steepleflower; and the essay collection Faithful Existence: Reading, Memory & Transcendence. Gander’s essays have appeared in The Nation, The Boston Review, and the New York Times Book Review. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim, Howard, United States Artists, and Whiting Foundations.

Gander was a Briggs-Copeland Poet at Harvard University before becoming the A.K. Seaver Professor of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University where he taught with his wife, the poet C.D. Wright, for more than twenty years. He lives and works now in Petaluma, California.

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Laurie Kutchins has published three books of poetry, as well as numerous lyric essays. Her book, The Night Path, published by BOA Editions, received the Isabella Gardner Award and was also nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Her poems and lyric essays have appeared in periodicals and anthologies, including The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Orion, Ploughshares, Poetry, Bellevue Literary Review, and many others. Most recently, she’s completed a nonfiction memoir about the active imagination in the pilgrimage of healing. She teaches in the creative writing program at James Madison University in Virginia, and was a faculty member at the Taos Summer Writers Conference in its first ten years. Wyoming-born and raised, Laurie maintains her deep roots to Wyoming even when in the Shenandoah Valley.

Matt Daly is the author of Between Here and Home, published by Unsolicited Press in June of 2019, and the chapbook Red State, published by Seven Kitchens Press. He is the recipient of a Neltje Blanchan Award for writing inspired by the natural world and a Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the Wyoming Arts Council. His poems have appeared in publications including Pilgrimage, The Cortland Review, and High Desert Journal as well as the Sixteen Rivers Press anthology America, We Call Your Name. Matt makes text-based art independently and in collaboration with visual, performing, and literary artists. He also teaches reflective and creative writing for medical professionals, humanitarian aid workers, secondary and college students, and others interested in the literary arts.

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Camille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP, 2017), winner of the Colorado Book Award, and the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History (W.W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Dungy has also edited anthologies including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry and From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, her honors include NEA Fellowships in poetry (2003) and prose (2018), an American Book Award, two NAACP Image Award nominations, and two Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominations. Dungy’s poems have been published in Best American Poetry, The 100 Best African American Poems, the Pushcart Anthology, Best American Travel Writing, and over thirty other anthologies. She is University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University.

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Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four books of poetry: Oceanic; Lucky Fish, winner of the Hoffer Grand Prize for Prose and Independent Books; At the Drive-In Volcano; and Miracle Fruit. With Ross Gay, she co-authored Lace & Pyrite, a chapbook of nature poems (Organic Weapon Arts). Her most recent publication is the highly anticipated World of Wonders, her first book of essays. She is the poetry editor of Orion magazine and her poems have appeared in the Best American Poetry series, American Poetry Review, New England Review, Poetry, Ploughshares,and Tin House. Awards for her writing include an NEA Fellowship in poetry and the Pushcart Prize. She is professor of English and creative writing in the MFA program of the University of Mississippi.

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Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book, Please (2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal, Coldfront, and the Academy of American Poets. He is also the author of the collection The Tradition (2019), which was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in Buzzfeed, The Nation, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Time, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry anthologies. He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta.

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Jorie Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including From the New World: Poems 1976-2014, Place, which won the Forward Prize in 2012, and The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, winner of the 1996 Pulitzer prize for Poetry. Her other poetry collections include Fast, Sea Change, Overlord, Never, Swarm, The Errancy, Materialism, Region of Unlikeness, The End of Beauty, Erosion, and Hybrids of Plants and Ghosts. She served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003 and has also edited two anthologies, Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language and Best American Poetry 1990. She is the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, the first woman to be awarded the position.

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Marie Howe is the author of four volumes of poetry, Magdalene: Poems; The Kingdom of Ordinary Time; The Good Thief; and What the Living Do, and she is the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Agni, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and The Partisan Review, among others. She has been a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and a recipient of NEA and Guggenheim fellowships, and Stanley Kunitz selected Howe for a Lavan Younger Poets Prize from the American Academy of Poets. In 2015, she received the Academy of American Poets Poetry Fellowship which recognizes distinguished poetic achievement. From 2012-2014, she served as the Poet Laureate of New York State.

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Irish poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama’s work centres around themes of language, power, conflict and religion. Working fluently on the page and with groups of people, Pádraig is a skilled speaker, teacher and group worker. He is the author of four volumes of poetry: Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community, In the Shelter, Sorry for your Troubles, and Readings from the Books of Exile. From 2014-2019 he was the leader of the Corrymeela Community, Ireland’s oldest peace and reconciliation community. Ó Tuama presents Poetry Unbound with On Being Studios and in late 2019 was named On Being's Theologian in Residence. He is based in Belfast, Ireland.

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A very special LOGOS Gathering, co-sponsored by EcoTheo Review and Graywolf Press, in celebration of the publication of The More Extravagant Feast by Leah Naomi Green!

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Donations will be collected to support the work of Boxerwood Education Association, whose mission is "to educate and inspire people of all ages to be environmentally responsible stewards of the Earth."

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Leah Naomi Green is the author of The More Extravagant Feast (Graywolf Press, 2020), which was selected by Li-Young Lee for the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. Her chapbook, The Ones We Have, received the 2012 Flying Trout Chapbook prize. Leah Naomi Green teaches English and Environmental Studies at Washington and Lee University and lives in the Shenandoah Mountains where she, her partner, and their daughters homestead and grow food. Green received an MFA from The University of California, Irvine. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Paris Review, Tin House, The Southern Review, Ecotone, Pleiades and Shenandoah.

Allison Seay was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1980. She earned a BA in English at Mary Washington College (now University of Mary Washington) in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 2002 and an MFA in poetry from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2005. Her honors include publication in such journals as Crazyhorse, the Southern Review, Meridian, Arts and Academe, and Pleiades. Her first book manuscript is under consideration and was a semi-finalist for Tupelo Press's First/Second Book Award. She has enjoyed two retreats at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in Amherst, Virginia. She worked for several years at UNC Greensboro, as assistant director of the MFA Program and associate Editor of the Greensboro Review. She has taught at both UNC Greensboro, Greensboro College, and at Lynchburg College before moving back to Richmond, Virginia.

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KB Brookins [pronouns: they/them] is a Black queer nonbinary poet, organizer, and postsecondary ed professional currently based in Austin, TX. They’ve received fellowship invitations from the Vermont Studio Center, Lambda Literary, The Hurston/Wright Foundation, The Watering Hole, Winter Tangerine, and UTSA’s African American Literatures and Cultures Institute. Their poetry appears in The Cincinnati Review, The Matador Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, The Shade Journal, Sappho’s Torque, and other pretty places. When they’re not on the stage or in the page, they serve as Program Coordinator for the Gender and Sexuality Center at the University of Texas at Austin and Founder/Co-Organizer of Interfaces.

Faylita Hicks [pronouns: she/her/they] is a queer writer, mobile photographer, and performance artist. The author of HoodWitch (Acre Books, 2019), their poetry and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming in Slate, Huffington Post, POETRY magazine, Color Bloq, Adroit, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, The Cincinnati Review, and others. Winner of the 2019 Best of Net Award, they have received a Pushcart Prize nomination from Tahoma Literary Review. They are the Editor-in-Chief of the Austin-based literary journal Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. They work to educate the public on issues and policies related to pretrial incarceration and cash bail, as an organizer with social justice nonprofit Mano Amiga.

The 2009 Grand Slam Champion of the Austin Poetry Slam, she was a member of the 2008 Neo Soul Poetry Slam Team and won several individual regional competitions. Her visual art has been exhibited in the Texas State University Gallery of the Common Experience, Insomnia Gallery in Houston, Dahlia’s Gallery in San Marcos, Patio Dolcetto in San Marcos, and featured in Five:2:One print magazine. The Founder/Creative Director of Arrondi Creative Productions, Hicks is an artist on the roster for hip-hop collective Grid Squid Entertainment.
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Event hosted on ZOOM, and streamed to FB Live. LOGOS Gatherings are 'liturgically-inflected' reading events, which engage audience participation. RSVP through Eventbrite by getting a (free) "ticket" to receive access details for ZOOM, or tune-in live on the LOGOS FB Page.

POSTPONED TO AWP 2020

Due to concerns regarding COVID-19

Two of America's foremost visionary poets will share their award-winning work, and insights on the power of language to create meaningful realities, within a unique, participatory format. ***Offsite, during AWP***

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Li-Young Lee is the author of five books of poetry, including his newest collection, The Undressing which is forthcoming in 2018. His earlier collections are Behind My Eyes; Book of My Nights; Rose, winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award; The City in Which I Love You, the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; and a memoir entitled The Winged Seed: A Remembrance, which received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and will be reissued by BOA Editions in 2012. Lee’s honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Lannan Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, as well as grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

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Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book, Please (2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal, Coldfront, and the Academy of American Poets. He is also the author of the collection The Tradition (2019), which was shortlisted for the 2019 National Book Award. His poems have appeared in Buzzfeed, The Nation, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Time, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry anthologies. He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta.

POSTPONED (Reschedule Date TBD)

Due to concerns regarding COVID-19

LOGOS welcomes two renowned poet-theologians for an exploration of faith, meaning and the atoning power of poems.

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Christian Wiman is the author, editor, or translator of ten books, including Hammer is the Prayer: Selected Poems (FSG, 2016), My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer (FSG, 2013), and Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam (HarperCollins/Ecco, 2012). He has been a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford and a visiting assistant professor of English at Northwestern, and for three years he served as Visiting Scholar at Lynchburg College in Virginia. From 2003 until 2013 he was the editor of Poetry magazine. Wiman has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic Monthly, and numerous other publications. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow and holds an honorary doctorate of humane letters from North Central College. He is Professor of the Practice of Religion and Literature at Yale Divinity School.

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Nate Klug is the author of Rude Woods, a modern translation of Virgil's Eclogues (The Song Cave, 2013), Anyone, a book of poems (The University of Chicago Press, 2015), and the forthcoming Hosts and Guests (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 2020). His writing has been supported by fellowships from the James Merrill House, the MacDowell Colony, and the Poetry Foundation. His poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, The New York Review of Books, The Threepenny Review, Boston Review and Image Journal. In 2010 Klug was awarded a Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation. A UCC-Congregationalist minister, he has served churches in North Guilford, CT; Grinnell, IA; and Redwood City, CA. He is Pastor at Arlington Community Church, United Church of Christ, in Kensington, CA, near Berkeley.

Nick Courtright is Co-Executive Editor and book designer for Gold Wake Press, and the founder and Executive Editor of Atmosphere Press. He is the author of Let There Be Light, called “a continual surprise and a revelation” by Naomi Shihab Nye, and Punchline, a National Poetry Series finalist. His poetry has appeared in many literary journals, including The Southern Review, Kenyon Review Online, Boston Review, and The Iowa Review, among numerous others, and essays and other prose of his have been published by such places as The Huffington Post, The Best American Poetry, Gothamist, and SPIN Magazine.

He has taught classes ranging from Creative Writing to American Literature to Writing for Publication to Romanticism to Media Studies to Philosophy at St. Edward’s University, Southwestern University, Texas State University, Concordia University, Austin Community College, Central Texas College, and elsewhere. His YouTube channel analyzing famous works of literature has garnered a half a million views, and currently, he is pursuing a doctorate at the University of Texas, where he studies the nature of literary interpretation.

Kimbol Soques has been writing since before she got her first typewriter at age 3. A poet from the beginning, she’s been praised for her incisiveness and clarity in all forms, no doubt because she hates to say things twice. She majored in English literature at Rice University, but then took a long detour through high tech. (Though even there she was published in Sysadmin Magazine.) In poetry, she strives to pare down to the bone, using white space like breath. Publications sharing her work include Non-Binary Review, Gyroscope Review, and di-vêrsé-city, and her work has been nominated for Best of the Net. She lives, studies at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and writes in Austin, Texas.

LOGOS welcomes two of Austin's premier performance poets / spoken-word artists for a very special evening of poetry, ritual and conversation.

Dynamic poet duo Victoria + Chucky delivered a blistering set at New Story Festival, 2019. Impassioned, energizing, inspired and inspiring — this couple performs synchronized and independent pieces that move, groove, instigate, incite, catch-fire and uplift. We've brought them back for a special *filmed* event that you won't want to miss.

Poet and emcee Charles Dwain Stephens aka Chucky BLK was a member of the 2014 and 2015 Austin Poetry Slam Team, and part of a Group Piece Finalist at the National Poetry Slam. A nationally acclaimed poet, on celebrated EPs "Scorpio SZN" (2018) and "A Prequel To." (2018), Chucky blurs the lines of spoken word and hip hop, channeling a razor sharp wit that can either bust your gut or break your heart. The son of a pastor, Chucky has an electrifying presence both on stage and in the booth that echoes his father’s Sunday fervor, intensity, and passion leaving a lasting impression.

Poet Victoria Prescott, a member of UT's nationally acclaimed Spitshine performance poetry collective, has performed at the Austin Poetry Slam, and throughout central Texas. A staff member for Creative Action, Victoria is a poet and social justice educator, who is focused on how communities can heal through art and stories. She has work published in the Thing Itself, Pressure Gauge Press, Button Poetry, and Write About Now. Victoria bring her passion for language and social action to the slam stage, — and always swaying the hearts, and catalyzing the wisdom, of her listeners.

This will be a LOGOS like no other — full-throttle utterance, and diesel-on-the-fire galvanizing love — that you will not want to miss.

The word ecstatic literally means "to stand outside oneself" (ex + stasis). And there is no better way to describe how we feel to be welcoming renowned poets Carrie Fountain (Poet Laureate of Texas) and Naomi Shihab Nye (US Young Person's Poet Laureate) to Lazarus Brewing Co.'s exquisite outdoor stage, for a very special LOGOS on Thurs. Sept. 12, at 7:30 in the evening.

We are utterly "beside ourselves" with joy.

This event will be free and open to the public; however, donations are encouraged, and will go to support Texas Gun Sense and Texas Civil Rights Project.

We will also be joined by acclaimed classical guitarist Darrel Mayers of Motes Float Aloft, who will offer musical accompaniment throughout the evening.

Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Bookwoman, Austin’s premier feminist bookstore, and can be signed by our poets following the event.

Carrie Fountain’s first collection of poetry, Burn Lake, was a National Poetry Series winner and was published by Penguin Random House in 2010. Her second collection, Instant Winner, was published by Penguin Random House in 2014. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, American Poetry Review, and The New Yorker, among others. Fountain's debut novel for young adults, I'm Not Missing, was published in 2018 by Flatiron Books (Macmillan). Her first children’s book, The Poem Forest, about the life and legacy of poet and ecologist W.S. Merwin, is forthcoming from Candlewick Press. 

Currently writer-in-residence at St. Edward's University, Fountain travels the country reading her poetry and teaching writing workshops. She hosts NPR's This Is Just To Say, a radio show and podcast that features intimate conversations about poetry and life with America's most influential poets. In 2019, she was named Poet Laureate of the state of Texas.

***Get Carrie's Books HERE***

 

Naomi Shihab Nye is the author and / or editor of over 30 volumes of poetry, fiction and essays, including 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East (finalist for the National Book Award), and The Turtle of Oman (awarded the 2015 Middle East Book Award for Youth Literature). Her most recent book of poetry is The Tiny Journalist, and her newest collection, Cast Away: Poems for Our Time, is forthcoming from Greenwillow Press. 

Nye's numerous awards include a Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, the Robert Creeley Prize and the Betty Prize from Poets House for her service to poetry. In January 2010, she was elected to the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets. In 2018, the Texas Institute of Letters awarded her the Lon Tinkle Award for Lifetime Achievement; and in 2019, she was named Young People's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She is Professor of Creative Writing – Poetry at Texas State University. 

***Get Naomi's Books HERE***

Theopoetics (theos + poiesis: literally, "God-making") is an interdisciplinary field of study that examines the ways in which art and texts perform theological truths — and help create experiences of God.

At our upcoming August gathering, LOGOS welcomes two acclaimed poet-academicians from the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest, for an in-depth exploration of how the process of creativity – especially of creating poetry – helps us 'step into' the Divine. We invite you to take some time to peruse the bios of these extraordinary artists / thinkers, below — and to take this opportunity to invite someone you know to experience a one-of-a-kind conversation.

The Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge is Dean and President and Professor of New Testament at Seminary of the Southwest. She studies, teaches, interprets, preaches, argues with, and wonders with holy scripture, particularly the letters of Paul and the gospels of Mark and John. Her poetry has appeared in the Anglican Theological Review and Soul by Southwest, and she is the author of A Lot of the Way Trees Were Walking: Poems from the Gospel of Mark (Wipf & Stock 2015). Collaborating with Claire Miller Colombo has been life-giving — among their projects: the Wisdom Commentary on Colossians and imagining the Center for Writing and Creative Expression at Seminary of the Southwest.

Dr. Claire Miller Colombo directs the Center for Writing and Creative Expression and is lecturer in theology and the arts at Seminary of the Southwest. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon’s Beyond Walls Magazine, Loyola Press’s Finding God publications, and Soul by Southwest. Her articles on English Romantic poetry and drama appear in Studies in Romanticism and Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and, with Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, she co-authored the commentary on Colossians in the Wisdom Commentary Series. She has served as literary co-chair of the journal Theopoetics, and, since 2015, has been editor of the seminary’s literary and arts journal, Soul by SouthWest.

Sasha West was born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her first book, Failure and I Bury the Body, won the National Poetry Series and the Texas Institute of Letters First Book of Poetry Award. It was also selected as one of the top ten debut poetry books for 2013 by Victoria Chang for Poets & Writers. Her poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Forklift Ohio, Third Coast, West Branch, American Poet, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. 

Her awards include a Fellowship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a Houston Arts Alliance grant, Pushcart nominations, and Inprint’s Verlaine Prize. She has served as lead editor for and, later, board president of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. 

Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at St. Edward’s University in Austin, TX, where she lives with her husband and daughter. 

Jonathan Lowell is a geographer and poet living in Austin, TX since 2011. His chapbook, Postcard Habitats, came out in 2014 from Raw Paw Press. In the preface he writes, “he collection grew out of pondering the relationships between movement and place: the pains and pleasures of each, the way our bodies and identities shift and change as we constantly remake our habitats in this world. For a while these poems were journeys, constantly in motion and swirling around me. Now that they are fixed and bound to a page, they are, for me at least, a place. I feel both pain and relief for that.” His poems have also appeared in Analecta, Echo, and the anthology Texas Emerging Poets (Z Publishing). In 2017, he was a James Cody Fellow at the annual Round Top Poetry Festival. He finished his PhD in geography in 2018 from the University of Texas. He is currently working as the community liaison for Planet Texas 2050, a transdisciplinary research initiative at UT focused on climate and community resilience in Texas, where he is striving to connect the worlds of data science, the environmental humanities, urban planning, and community building, among many others.

Two phenomenal poet-activists join us for a reading and meaningful conversation about identity and social action at our June Gathering.

Abe Louise Young is a poet, social justice activist and educator for change. Her work appears widely in journals such as The Nation, Narrative, Feminist Wire, Witness, New Letters, Massachusetts Review and others. She holds degrees from Smith College, Northwestern University and the University of Texas at Austin, where she was awarded a James A. Michener Fellowship from the Michener Center for Writers. She’s the author of three chapbooks of poetry, including the recently-released Poem for a Friend Growing Lighter and Lighter from Dancing Girl Press. Abe was nominated Best Activist in Austin 2017 by the Austin Chronicle, and has been recognized for her consequential work on social justice projects, oral histories and youth empowerment.

Lilli Hime is an undergraduate at St. Edward’s University, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in English Writing. She has served on the submission review board for the school’s award-winning creative arts journal, Sorin Oak Review, for two years. She believes art is the bedrock for empathy and understanding, and seeks to utilize it for social change by creating spaces where lesser-heard voices can be heard. Her work stems from her identity as an immigrant, a woman of color, a member of the LGBTQ community, and a fellow person. She is also an Editorial Intern at The Austin Chronicle.

Two luminous, acclaimed poet-educators join us for our May Gathering.

Amanda Johnston is a nationally renowned poet, perform and educator. A Cave Canem Fellow and Affrilachian poet, Johnston was named one of Blavity’s 13 Black Poets You Should Know. The author of two chapbooks, GUAP and Lock & Key, and the full-length collection Another Way to Say Enter (Argus House Press), Amanda is a Stonecoast MFA faculty member, a cofounder of Black Poets Speak Out, founder / executive director of Torch Literary Arts, and serves on the Cave Canem Foundation board of directors. Amanda’s work has been featured on Bill Moyers, the Poetry Society of America’s online series In Their Own Words, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series. Her poetry and interviews have appeared in numerous anthologies, as well as online and print publications such as, Callaloo and Poetry.

Sequoia Maner is a poet-scholar and Mellon Teaching Fellow of Feminist Studies at Southwestern University. She earned her B.A. in English from Duke University and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English from the University of Texas at Austin. She is co-editor of Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era, due from Routledge Press in October. You can read her essay about Beyoncé’s Lemonade in the journal Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism and her poem “upon reading the autopsy of Sandra Bland,” finalist for the 2017 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, in Obsidian: Literature & Arts of the African Diaspora. 

LOGOS will be popping up at the New Story Festival for a special late-afternoon gathering with two acclaimed Austin poets.

Jason Myers is Editor-in-Chief of EcoTheo Review and community education representative for Heart to Heart Hospice, Austin. His poetry has appeared in Agni, The Paris Review, and over 20 journals.

Abe Louise Young was nominated Best Activist in Austin 2017 by the Austin Chronicle. She has authored three chapbooks of poetry and teaches throughout Austin.

Find more information about the festival here.