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Saturday, October 17, 2009 from 12:00 AM - 4:20 PM (ET)
12:00 Irene Willis
Irene Willis' three collections are They Tell Me You Danced (University Press of Florida); the award-winning At the Fortune Cafe (Snake Nation); and the 2009 Those Flames (Bay Oak). She teaches at Westfield State College and American International College.
12:10 Kevin Bowen
kevin bowen is director of the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His most recent collections are Eight True Maps of the West (Dedalus Press, Dublin) and, with Nguyen Ba Chung, Six Vietnamese Poets (Curbstone).
12:20 Judy Askew
Judy Askew has an M.A. from Boston College and lives on Cape Cod where she teaches a writing course at Cape Cod Community College. She’s recently been published in Rattle; Slant; Sahara, a Journal of New England Poetry; and an anthology of writing related to Cape Cod--World of Water, World of Sand published by Cape Cod Literary Press. Her new book Here at the Edge of the Sea is a collection of poems she has written over the years exploring the indeterminancies of life lived at a shoreline, with all the reverberations of surf and hungry gulls. The ambiance of the poems is complemented by stunning photographs.
12:30
Al Bouchard
Alfred Bouchard has been living in
Lowell for a number of years with his wife who is an artist. Previously, they
lived in Cambridge. Before that in New York City, etc.
12:40 Lisa Olstein
Lisa Olstein is the author of RADIO CRACKLING, RADIO GONE, winner of the 2005 Hayden Carruth Award, and LOST ALPHABET (Copper Canyon Press, 2009).
12:50 Jessica Bozek
Jessica Bozek is the author of The Bodyfeel Lexicon (Switchback, 2009), as well as several chapbooks. She lives in Cambridge and curates the Small Animal Project Reading Series (smallanimalproject.com).
1:00 Dorian Brooks
Dorian Brooks is an assistant editor at Ibbetson Street Press. Her new book of poems is The Wren’s Cry.
1:10 Teresa Cader
Teresa Cader is the author of two collections of poetry. Guests, 1991, won the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award and The Journal Award in Poetry from the Ohio State University Press. The third section of her next book (The Paper Wasp, TriQuarterly Press, 1999) won the Poetry Society of America's George Bogin Memorial Award. She is on the core poetry faculty of the Lesley University Graduate Program in Creative Writing. She has just completed a third collection of poems.
1:20 Andrea Cohen
Andrea Cohen is the author of Long Division and The Cartographer’s Vacation; her poems and stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Glimmertrain, The Threepenny Review, Memorious, Salamander, and elsewhere. She is the director of the Blacksmith House Reading Series in Cambridge, MA.
1:30 Rich Murphy
Rich Murphy was born in Lynn, Massachusetts and has taught writing and literature for 23 years at Bradford College, Emmanuel College and now at Virginia Commonwealth University. His collection of poems titled, Voyeur, was the 2008 Gival Press Poetry Award winner and will be out in October. Credits include two books of poems The Apple in the Monkey Tree by Codhill Press and Phoems for Mobile Vices by BlazeVox; chapbooks Great Grandfather by Pudding House Publications, Family Secret by Finishing Line Press, and Hunting and Pecking by Ahadada Press; poems in hundreds of journals; and essays in refereed journals, including Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics Poetry / Literature and Culture.
1:40 Lo Galluccio
Lo's a poet and vocal aritst with a newly released book: "Terrible Baubles" on Propoganda Press. Her other works are "Hot Rain" and "Sarasota VII."
1:50 David Giannini
David Giannini's most recent books are AZ II from Adastra Press; OTHERS' LINES (via Peter Ganick;) and HOW ELSE? (Longhouse Press.) He lives in Becket, MA.
2:00 Dara Wier
Wier is the author of nine collections of poetry: Reverse Rapture (2005), Hat on a PondVoyages in English
(2001), Our Master Plan
(1998), Blue for the
Plough (1992), The
Book of Knowledge (1988), All
You Have in Common (1984), The
8-Step Grapevine (1980), Blood,
Hook & Eye (1977). She was a Phi Beta Kappa award finalist for Our Master Plan. In fall
2006, Wave Books will publish Remnants
of Hannah, Wier's tenth book.
2:10 Celia Gilbert
Celia Gilbert is the author of Something to Exchange,( BlazeVox[books]), An Ark of Sorts (Alice James Books), Bonfire, (Alice James Books) and Queen of Darkness,(Viking). Her poems have been widely published and anthologized; she is also a printmaker and a painter.
2:20 Frederick Farryl Goodwin
Frederick Farryl Goodwin's debut collection Virgil’s Cow (Miami University Press, 2009) has been described as a “strange mix of Grand Guignol and lyricism…a potent brew of fractured pastoral and seedy cityscapes, fragile confessionalism and Shakespearean film noir… The workings of some Spicerian angel… teetering on the brink of some ghastly void” (Signal to Noise Magazine).
2:30 James Haug
James Haug is the author of Legend of the Recent Past (National Poetry Review Press, 2009), A Plan of How to Catch Amanda (Factory Hollow Press, 2007), Walking LibertyFox Luck (Center for Book Arts, 1998), The Stolen Car (University of Massachusetts Press, 1989).
2:40 Philip Hasouris
Philip Hasouris is a co-host of the Brockton Library Poetry Series. Author of "Swimming Alone" and his new book "Blow out the Moon". Fred Marchant has called Hasouris "unflinching, devoted and determined."
2:50 Joan Houlihan
Joan Houlihan's most recent book is The Us from Tupelo Press (September, 2009). She is founding director of the Concord Poetry Center and Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference and she teaches in Lesley University's Low-Residency MFA program in Cambridge, Massachusetts and in Columbia University's MFA program in NYC.
3:00 Fred Marchant
Fred Marchant is the author of four books of poetry, the most recent of which is The Looking House. Eamon Wall in his review of this book in The Irish Times has called Fred Marchant "a master of the poetic line," and Barbara Berman has written The Rumpus that this book is "filled with sure-footed muscularity and details that sound as pitch-perfect as they feel." Marchant, director of the Creative Writing Program and the Poetry Center at Suffolk University in Boston.
3:10 Ellen Kennedy
Ellen Kennedy is the author of Sometimes My Heart Pushes My Ribs as well as an ebook published by bear parade.
3:20 Mignon Ariel King
Mignon Ariel King is a native Bostonian womanist writer, an alumna of Simmons College, and a former English instructor. King edits the online journals MoJo! and U.M.Ph.! Prose.
3:30 Ruth Lepson
Ruth Lepson is poet-in-residence at the New England Conservatory of Music. Her books are I Went Looking for You, Morphology, Dreaming in Color, and Poetry from Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology, which she edited.
3:40 Bernard Horn
3:50 Valerie Loveland
Valerie Loveland is the author of Reanimated, Somehow (Scrambler Books). Her poetry appears in various literary magazines, Best of the Web 2008, and on her website: valerieloveland.com.
4:00 Gordon Massman
Gordon Massman's numbered poems attempt to provide a literary MRI of one man's psyche--his deepest urges, motives, fantasies, and obsessions.
4:10 Bert Stern
Bert Stern's poems have appeared widely in nationally distributed journals and anthologies. His chapbook, The Ragpicker's Grandson, was published by Red Dust (NYC) in 1998. His new poetry collection, Steerage, was published this summer by Ibbetson Street.
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