Field-Of-Study: Poetry

Laura Kasischke has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Lilies Without (Ausable Press, 2007). She has also published six novels, with a seventh, In a Perfect World, forthcoming in 2009. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Poetry,  Southern Review,  Iowa Review,  New Republic, and elsewhere. She lives in Chelsea, Michigan, with

Lyn Hejinian is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her most recent published book of poetry is Saga / Circus (2008). A collection of collaborations written with Jack Collom, Situations, Sings, also came out in 2008. Other books include A Border Comedy (Granary Books, 2001), Slowly and The Beginner (both published by Tuumba Press, 2002), and

Joseph Harrison was born in Richmond, Virginia, grew up in Virginia and Alabama, and studied at Yale and Johns Hopkins.  His first book of poems, Someone Else’s Name, was published by the Waywiser Press in the United Kingdom in 2003, and by Zoo Press in the U.S. in 2004. It was named as one of

Saskia Hamilton is the author of three books of poems: As for Dream (Graywolf Press, 2001), Divide These: Poems (Graywolf, 2005), and the retrospective Canal: New and Selected Poems 1993-2005 (Todmorden, Lancs., UK: Arc Publications, 2005). Her verse has also appeared in many of the most highly respected poetry journals, among them Ploughshares, Kenyon Review,

Patrick Phillips was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and educated at Tufts University, the University of Maryland, and New York University, where he earned a doctorate in English Renaissance Literature. His first book of poems, Chattahoochee, won the 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and his second, Boy, was published by the University of Georgia Press in

Poet, playwright, essayist, and cultural critic, Mark Nowak is driven by his desire to give voice to working people, documenting the hardships wrought by economic downturns both here in the United States and around the world. He is the author of three poetry collections, all published by Coffee House Press: Revenants (2000), Shut Up Shut

One of the most respected experimental writers in the country today, Nathaniel Mackey is the author of ten books and chapbooks of poetry, including Four for Trane (1978), Septet for the End of Time (1983), Outlantish (1992), and the highly influential serial poems Song of the Andoumboulou and “Mu.” The first installments of the poem

Currently the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside, Juan Felipe Herrera is the son of migrant farmworkers: Lucha Quintana, a performance teatrista, and Felipe Emilio Herrera, a storyteller, both of whom migrated from Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. Embodying his parents’ creative spirits, Juan Felipe

Barbara Hamby’s most recent book of poetry is All-Night Lingo Tango (Pittsburgh UP, 2009). Her first collection, Delirium, was selected by Cynthia McDonald for the Vassar Miller Prize. It also won the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Prize. Her second book, The Alphabet of Desire, won

Kimiko Hahn is the author of eight poetry collections, including Earshot (1992) and Volatile (1998), both published by Hanging Loose Press, and Mosquito and the Ant (1999), The Artist’s Daughter (2002), The Narrow Road to the Interior (2006), and, most recently, Toxic Flora (2010), all issued by W. W. Norton. She has also written texts

Bill Zavatsky was born in 1943 in Bridgeport, Connecticut.  He holds B.A. and M.F.A degrees from Columbia University, and has lived in New York since 1965.  He has taught on all levels of education since 1971, but since the fall of 1987 his home base has been the 9th, 10th, and 12th grades at the Trinity School in

Joel Brouwer was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1968, and educated at Sarah Lawrence College and Syracuse University. He is the author of Exactly What Happened (Purdue UP, 1999), which received the Larry Levis Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University; Centuries (Four Way Books, 2003), a National Book Critics Circle “Notable Book"; and And So