Field-Of-Study: Poetry

Matthew Zapruder is the author of three collections of poetry. His most recent book, Come On All You Ghosts (Copper Canyon), was selected as one of the year’s top five poetry books by Publishers Weekly, as well as the 2010 Booklist Editors’ Choice for poetry, and the 2010 Northern California Independent Booksellers Association poetry book

D. A. Powell is the author of five collections of poetry. His books Cocktails and Chronic were both finalists for the Publishing Triangle and the National Book Critics Circle awards. Along with David Trinidad and a cast of hundreds, he is the co-author of By Myself: An Autobiography (Turtle Point, 2009). Powell’s honors have included

Maurice Manning grew up in Danville, Kentucky. He credits his grandmothers, who were natural storytellers, with stimulating his early interest in the rhythms and sounds of language. His grandmothers also offered direct contact with the 19th century, with a time and place remote from industrialization and other features of modern life. Manning’s family was among

Born and raised in the Bronx and Far Rockaway, Eleanor Lerman is a lifelong New Yorker who currently lives on Long Island. In 1973 her first book of poetry, Armed Love (Wesleyan UP), was nominated for a National Book Award. In one of the more controversial reviews of her work, the New York Times described

Kimberly Johnson is the author of two collections of poetry, Leviathan with a Hook (Persea Books, 2002) and A Metaphorical God (Persea Books, 2008). In 2009, Penguin Classics published her translation of Virgil’s Georgics, under the title The Georgics: A Poem of the Land. Her poetry, translations, and scholarly essays have appeared widely in publications

I am the author of two books of poems, Other People (2005) and The Lions (2009). Both were published by the University of Chicago Press. I am also the author of a monograph on the painter Mitchell Johnson, which was published in 2004 by Terrence Rogers Fine Art. My poems and prose apprear regularly in

Wesley McNair’s latest book is Lovers of the Lost: New & Selected Poems. He has authored or edited eighteen books, including poetry, nonfiction, and anthologies. In addition to his Guggenheim Fellowship, McNair has held a grant from the Fulbright Foundations, two Rockefeller Fellowships, an NEH Fellowship in literature, and two NEA fellowships. In 2006, he

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, poet Richard Tillinghast attended the University of the South (B.A., 1962), and, under the auspices of a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, went on to study at Harvard University, where he earned master’s and doctoral degrees (1963, 1970). Although while an undergraduate numerous poems of his appeared in Sewanee Review, his alma mater’s

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Daniel Tobin is the author of four books of poems, Where the World is Made (University Press of New England, 1999), Double Life (Louisiana State UP, 2004), The Narrows (Four Way Books, 2005), and Second Things (Four Way Books, 2008), as well as the critical study Passage to the Center:

Appointed for poetry, Larissa Szporluk has been teaching full-time at Bowling Green State University since 2000 and is now an associate professor of Creative Writing and Literature. In 2005, she was a visiting professor at Cornell University. Since the publication of her chapbook Prowler’s Universe in Graywolf Press’s Take Three Series (1996), she has gone

Barbara Ras is a poet and publisher, dividing her creative work between her own poetry and bringing the words of others to life. Ms. Ras was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1949. She attended Simmons College in Boston, receiving a B.A. in Art History. At Simmons, one of her pivotal experiences was an independent