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Alice James Award
The Alice James Award, formerly the Beatrice Hawley Award, is given annually by Alice James Books. The award includes publication of a book-length poetry manuscript and a cash prize (currently $2,000). The award was established by the press in 1986 to honor cooperative member author Beatrice Hawley (''Making the House Fall Down,'' 1977) who died in 1985 at forty-one years of age from lung cancer. The Award was renamed, like its sponsoring publisher, after Alice James "whose extraordinary gift for writing went unrecognized in her lifetime." The Award is a nationally-offered publication prize open to poets at any stage of their careers. The first award recipient was Linnea Johnson, for ''The Chicago Home.'' Winners of the award have often gone on to receive national attention and further honors for their winning works, most notably, Brian Turner for ''Here, Bullet,'' which received national and international media attention. Turner also received numerous further awards and honors for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice James Books
Alice James Books is an American non-profit poetry press located in Farmington, Maine and affiliated with the University of Maine at Farmington. History and mission "Alice James Books was founded as a co-operative press in Cambridge, MA in 1973 by five women and two men: Patricia Cumming, Marjorie Fletcher, Lee Rudolph, Ron Schreiber, Betsy Sholl, Cornelia Veenendaal, and Jean Pedrick. The intent of this company was to provide women with a greater representation in literature and involve the writer in the publishing process. While this may seem unbelievable today, in the 1970s women writers had a very difficult time being published. Recognizing this dire need, Alice James Books was established." Exhibits > Jean Pedrick: A Virtual Exhibit of Her Life and Work > Alice James Books">UNH - Manchester Library > Special Home > Exhibits > Jean Pedrick: A Virtual Exhibit of Her Life and Work > Alice James Books/ref> Maine Poet Laureate Betsy Sholl shared her memory of being a founding m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard McCann
Richard John McCann (December 12, 1949 – January 24, 2021) was an American writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He lived in Washington, D.C., where he was a longtime professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at American University. As a teenager, he wrote to Bette Davis, whose work he greatly admired; they shared a correspondence which he recounted in a 2016 article in the ''Washington Post''. A gay writer, he was the author of ''Mother of Sorrows'', a collection of linked stories that novelist Michael Cunningham has described as ''unbearably beautiful.'' It won the 2005 John C. Zacharis First Book Award from ''Ploughshares'' and was also an American Library Association Stonewall Book Award recipient, as well as a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Amazon named it one of the Top 50 Books of 2005. McCann's book of poems, ''Ghost Letters'', won the 1994 Beatrice Hawley and Capricorn Poetry awards. With Michael Klein, he edited ''Things Shaped in Passing: M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Metres
Philip Metres is an American writer (poet, translator, scholar, and essayist). His poetry books include ''Shrapnel Maps'', ''Pictures at an Exhibition'', and ''Sand Opera''. He has published poems, essays, and reviews in literary journals and magazines including ''Poetry'', ''American Poetry Review'', ''New England Review'', ''Tin House'', ''Ploughshares'', ''New American Writing'', ''Massachusetts Review'', and others. His work has been anthologized in ''Best American Poetry''; ''The New American Poetry of Engagement''; ''With Our Eyes Wide Open: Poems of the New American Century''; ''A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry'' (2011); ''I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights'' (2009); and ''Inclined to Speak: Contemporary Arab American Poetry'' (2008). Honors Metres' honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Lannan Literary Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, three Arab American Book Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Springer
Jane Springer (born Lawrenceburg, Tennessee) is an American poet. Her honors include a 2010 Whiting Awards, Whiting Award, the Robert Penn Warren Prize for Poetry, and the Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books. Life She graduated from Florida State University with a PhD in creative writing. She is associate professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Hamilton College (New York), Hamilton College. She was a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and her first book, ''Dear Blackbird,'' won the 2006 Agha Shahid Ali Prize. Her work appeared in ''AGNI'', ''Sycamore Review'', and ''Poetry''. Poet Lynnell Edwards, reviewing her second collection, ''Murder Ballad'', noted, "Springer's long line is fearless in its music, indulging luscious sounds and pounding measures. Traversing the despair of the rural south, [she] exploits the urgency and dread of every keening murder ballad, showing how that cleaving is both our undoing and our salvation." Works *''Dear Blackbird'', Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesle Lewis (author)
Lesle Lewis is an American poet and professor. She is author of five poetry collections, most recently "A Boot's a Boot", winner of the 2013 Cleveland State University Poetry Center Open Book Competition. In reviewing her previous collection, ''lie down too,'' winner of the 2010 Beatrice Hawley Award, (Alice James Books, 2011). ''Publishers Weekly,'' wrote "Few poets handle both syntax and sound as she does, and few flirt so well both with, and against, common sense, with and against ordinary adult experience." Her first collection, ''Small Boat'' (University of Iowa Press, 2003), won the 2002 Iowa Poetry Prize. Her poems have been published in many literary journals and magazines including ''American Letters and Commentary'', ''Green Mountains Review'', ''Barrow Street'', ''Pool'', ''The Hollins Critic'', ''The Massachusetts Review'', and ''Jubilat,'' and featured on the Academy of American Poets website. Lewis earned a B.S. in education at the New York University, an M.A.L.S. in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Reginald Dwayne Betts is an American poet, legal scholar, educator and prison reform advocate. At age 16 he committed an armed carjacking, was prosecuted as an adult, and sentenced to nine years in prison. He started reading and writing poetry during his incarceration. "A single book, Dudley Randall's The Black Poets, slid under my cell in the hole, introduced me to the poets that had me believing words can be carved into a kind of freedom.” After his release, Betts earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College, and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School. He served on President Barack Obama’s Coordinating Council of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. He founded Freedom Reads, an organization that gives incarcerated people access to books. In September 2021, Betts was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He is currently working on a PhD in Law at Yale University. Early life and imprisonment Born in Maryland, Betts was in gifted progr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lia Purpura
Lia Purpura (born February 22, 1964, Mineola, New York) is an American poet, writer and educator. She is the author of four collections of poems (''King Baby'', ''Stone Sky Lifting'', ''The Brighter the Veil'', ''It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful''), four collections of essays (''Increase'', ''On Looking'', ''Rough Likeness'', and ''All the Fierce Tethers'') and one collection of translations (''Poems of Grzegorz Musial: Berliner Tagebuch and Taste of Ash''). Her poems and essays appear in ''AGNI'', ''The Antioch Review'', ''DoubleTake'', ''FIELD'', ''The Georgia Review'', ''The Iowa Review'', ''Orion Magazine'', ''The New Republic'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The Paris Review'', ''Parnassus: Poetry in Review'', ''Ploughshares''. ''Southern Review'', and many other magazines. Life A graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she was a Teaching/Writing Fellow in Poetry, Lia Purpura is currently Writer-in-Residence at University of Maryland, Baltimore County in Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrietta Goodman
Henrietta Goodman is an American poet, author of three poetry collections, most recently, ''All That Held Us'' (BkMk Press, 2018). Her first book, ''Take What You Want'' (Alice James Books, 2007), won the Beatrice Hawley Award. Honors and awards * 2007 Beatrice Hawley Award, for ''Take What You Want'' * Individual Artist Fellowship from the Montana Arts Council * Fishtrap Fellowship * residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts * 2001; 2002 Marjorie Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency Published works Full-Length Poetry Collections * ''All That Held Us'' (BkMk Press, 2018) * ''Hungry Moon'' (Mountain West Poetry Series, University Press of Colorado The University Press of Colorado is a nonprofit publisher supported partly by Adams State University, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, the University of Colorado, the University of Northern Co ..., 2013) * Criticism * References External links Audio: Hen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dobby Gibson
Dobby Gibson (born 1970) is an American poet. His first book of poetry, ''Polar,'' (Alice James Books, 2004) won the 2004 Beatrice Hawley Award and was a finalist for the 2006 Minnesota Book Award. He is also author of ''Skirmish'' (2009) ''It Becomes You'' (2013), and ''Little Glass Plane'' (2019), all published by Graywolf Press. Gibson's poetry has appeared in ''Ploughshares, Fence, Iowa Review, New England Review, American Poetry Review, Conduit'', among others publications. He is the recipient of a poetry fellowship from the McKnight Foundation. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he earned a B.A. from Connecticut College in 1993 and an M.F.A. from Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. Campuses Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI. *Indiana Universit ... in 1997. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. Published works Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Waldner
Liz Waldner is an American poet. Life Waldner was raised in small town Mississippi. At 28, she received a B.A. in philosophy and mathematics from St. John's College; she later studied at the Summer Language School in French Middlebury College, and received an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Waldner was a Regents Fellow in the Communication Department at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently ''Play'' (Lightful Press) and ''Trust'' (winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Open Competition). Her collection, ''Dark Would (the missing person)'' (University of Georgia Press), was the winner of the 2002 Contemporary Poetry Series; her collection, ''Self and Simulacra'' (2001), won the Beatrice Hawley Award; and her collection, ''A Point Is That Which Has No Part'' (2000), received the 1999 Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2000 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Other honors include g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Keelan
Claudia Keelan (b. 1959) is an American poet, writer, and professor. She received the Regents’ Creative Activities Award, at the University of Nevada, Los Vegas. Life Claudia Keelan is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently ''We Step into the Sea: New and Selected Poems'' (Barrow Street, 2018). Her book of translations ''Truth of My Songs: Poems of the Trobairitz,'' from Omnidawn Press appeared in 2016. ''Ecstatic Emigre'' was published in the Poets on Poetry Series from University of Michigan Press in 2018. Widely anthologized, Keelan was described by the late Robert Creeley as a poet who "keeps the faith for us all" (book cover endorsement of ''Utopic''). She is the editor of ''Interim,'' a print and on line journal specializing in poetry, translation, belle lettres and book reviews (www.interimpoetics.com) as well as the editor for The Test Site Poetry Series (University of Nevada Press). She lives in Las Vegas where she is a Barrick Distinguished Schola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Newman
Amy Newman is translator, American poet, and professor. She is a Presidential Research Professor at Northern Illinois University. Life She graduated with a Ph.D. in English Literature and Language from Ohio University. She is the author of five collections of poems, most recently ''On This Day in Poetry History'' (Persea Books). Her other books include ''Dear Editor'', winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award, ''fall'', ''Camera Lyrica,'' winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award, and her first book, ''Order, or Disorder,'' which received the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize. Newman has received fellowships in poetry from the MacDowell Colony and the Ohio and Illinois Arts Councils. In 2015 she was awarded the Friends of Literature Prize from The Poetry Foundation for her poe"Howl." Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines, including ''The Kenyon Review'', ''The Missouri Review'', ''Hotel Amerika'', ''The Ohio Review'', ''Colorado Review'', ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |