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Autumn House Poetry Award
Autumn House Press is an independent, non-profit literary publishing company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. History Autumn House Press was founded in 1998 by Michael Simms when prominent American publishers, driven by economic concerns, dramatically reduced their poetry lists. As a result, influential contemporary poets were left struggling to find publishers. Over time, Autumn House started publishing fiction and nonfiction titles as well. Since its founding, Autumn House has published over 100 titles, including full-length collections of poetry, short stories, and essays as well as memoirs, novels, anthologies, and poetry chapbooks, most of which are still in print. In 2016, founder and then editor-in-chief Michael Simms retired after 18 impressive years. Christine Stroud took on the role of editor in chief and Melissa Becker became board president. Books and Authors The press publishes books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by such authors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Simms (publisher)
Michael Simms is an American poet, novelist and literary publisher. His satiric novel ''Bicycles of the Gods: A Divine Comedy'' and his YA fantasy novel ''The Green Mage'' were published by Madville Publishing, and his most recent poetry collections are ''American Ash'' (2020) and ''Nightjar'' (2021), both published by Ragged Sky Press. His poems have been published in journals and magazines including Scientific American, Poetry Magazine, Black Warrior Review, Mid-American Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Southwest Review, and West Branch. Michael Simms Listing">''Poets & Writers'' > Directory of Writers > Michael Simms Listing/ref> His poems have also appeared in Poem-a-Day published by the Academy of American Poets and been read by Garrison Keillor on the nationally syndicated radio show The Writer's Almanac. Simms's poems have been translated into Spanish, Russian and Arabic. Early life Born in 1954 in Houston, Texas, Simms attended the School of Irish Studies in Dublin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bilgere
George Bilgere (born 1951) is an American poet. Bilgere grew up in Riverside, California, and earned his BA at the University of California, Riverside. He received his MA in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis and earned a Ph.D. in contemporary British and American Poetry from the University of Denver in 1988. Bilgere has received grants in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the Ohio Arts Council. In 1991 he was a Fulbright scholar in Bilbao, Spain. In 2002 was named a Witter Bynner Fellow through the Library of Congress by U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. He has won a Pushcart Prize, and in 2014 was awarded a $20,000 Creative Workforce Fellowship from Cleveland's Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC). Billy Collins has called Bilgere's work "a welcome breath of fresh, American air in the house of contemporary poetry." Bilgere has given poetry readings at the Library of Congress, the 92nd Street Y in New York, and at univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Stern
Gerald Daniel Stern (February 22, 1925 – October 27, 2022) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. The author of twenty collections of poetry and four books of essays, he taught literature and creative writing at Temple University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Raritan Valley Community College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. From 2009 until his death, he was a distinguished poet-in-residence and faculty member of Drew University's graduate program for a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in poetry. Stern was a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University and attended the University of Paris for post-graduate study. He received the National Book Award for Poetry in 1998 for ''This Time: New and Selected Poems'' and was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1991 for ''Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems''. In 2000, Governor Christine Todd Whitman appointed him the first Poet Laureate of New Jersey. Early life Stern was born in Pittsbur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Schwartz (fiction Writer)
Stephen Schwartz (born 1948) is an American musical theater and film lyricist and composer. Steve, Steven or Stephen Schwartz may also refer to: * Stephen E. Schwartz (born 1941), American atmospheric scientist * Stephen Schwartz (pathologist) (1942–2020), American pathologist *Steven Schwartz (psychologist) (born 1946), American/Australian psychologist *Stephen Suleyman Schwartz (born 1948), American journalist, political author, and historian *Steven Jay Schwartz (born 1951), American/British space physicist *Stephen Schwartz (diplomat) (born 1958), American diplomat *Stephen S. Schwartz (born 1983), judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims See also *Stefan Schwartz (born 1963), English actor *Stephen (musician) Stephen Michael Swartz (born December 13, 1991) is an American electronic music artist, singer-songwriter, and producer. He is known for his song "Crossfire" and his cover of Adele's song "Hello ''Hello'' is a salutation or greeting in the ... (Steph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Ochester
Edwin Frank Ochester (born September 15, 1939 Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet and editor. He was educated at Cornell University, Harvard University, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Currently he is a core faculty member of the Bennington College MFA Writing Seminars. For nearly twenty years Ochester served as director of the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh, and he was twice elected president of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. From 1967 to 1970 he was assistant professor of English at University of Florida, Gainesville. Since 1979 he has served as general editor of the Pitt Poetry Series, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. It is one of the largest and best known lists of contemporary American poetry by any publisher. He is also general editor of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction. Poets published by Ochester in the Pitt Series include Sharon Olds, Billy Collins, Ted Kooser, Lawrence Joseph, Richard She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ada Limón
Ada may refer to: Places Africa * Ada Foah, a town in Ghana * Ada (Ghana parliament constituency) * Ada, Osun, a town in Nigeria Asia * Ada, Urmia, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran * Ada, Karaman, a village in Karaman Province, Turkey Europe * Ada, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a village * Ada, Croatia, a village * Ada, Serbia, a town and municipality * Ada Ciganlija or Ada, a river island artificially turned into a peninsula in Belgrade, Serbia United States * Ada, Alabama, an unincorporated community * Ada County, Idaho * Ada, Kansas, an unincorporated community * Ada Township, Michigan * Ada, Minnesota, a city * Ada Township, Dickey County, North Dakota * Ada, Ohio, a village * Ada, Oklahoma, a city * Ada, Oregon, an unincorporated community * Ada Township, Perkins County, South Dakota * Ada, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Ada, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community Other * Ada River (other), various rivers * 523 Ada, an asteroid Film and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dickson Lam
Dickson may refer to: People *Dickson (given name) *Dickson (surname) Places In Australia: *Dickson, Australian Capital Territory in Canberra *Dickson College in Canberra *Dickson Centre, Australian Capital Territory in Canberra *Division of Dickson, Electoral Division, Queensland In Canada: *Dickson, Alberta *Dickson Hill, Ontario In Greenland: *Dickson Fjord In Malaysia: *Port Dickson In Russia: * Dikson (urban-type settlement), Krasnoyarsk Krai (named for Oscar Dickson) In the United States: * Dickson, Alaska *Dickson, Oklahoma *Dickson, Tennessee *Dickson City, Pennsylvania *Dickson County, Tennessee *Dickson Township, Michigan *Dickson Tavern Erie, PA Historical Building *Dickson, West Virginia Lakes *Dickson Lake in Argentina and Chile Literature *''Dickson!'', a collection of short stories by Gordon R. Dickson Ships * , a cargo ship leased to the Soviet Union during the Second World War Other * a 6-row barley variety *Father Dickson Cemetery, Crestwood, St. Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Hollander
Andrea is a given name which is common worldwide for both males and females, cognate to Andreas, Andrej and Andrew. Origin of the name The name derives from the Greek word ἀνήρ (''anēr''), genitive ἀνδρός (''andrós''), that refers to man as opposed to woman (whereas ''man'' in the sense of ''human being'' is ἄνθρωπος, ''ánthropos''). The original male Greek name, ''Andréas'', represents the hypocoristic, with endearment functions, of male Greek names composed with the ''andr-'' prefix, like Androgeos (''man of the earth''), Androcles (''man of glory''), Andronikos (''man of victory''). In the year 2006, it was the third most popular name in Italy with 3.1% of newborns. It is one of the Italian male names ending in ''a'', with others being Elia ( Elias), Enea ( Aeneas), Luca (Lucas), Mattia (Matthias), Nicola (Nicholas), Tobia ( Tobias). In recent and past times it has also been used on occasion as a female name in Italy and in Spain, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank X
Frank or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a medieval Germanic people * Frank, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades - see Farang Currency * Liechtenstein franc or frank, the currency of Liechtenstein since 1920 * Swiss franc or frank, the currency of Switzerland since 1850 * Westphalian frank, currency of the Kingdom of Westphalia between 1808 and 1813 * The currencies of the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland (1803–1814): ** Appenzell frank ** Argovia frank ** Basel frank ** Berne frank ** Fribourg frank ** Glarus frank ** Graubünden frank ** Luzern frank ** Schaffhausen frank ** Schwyz frank ** Solothurn frank ** St. Gallen frank ** Thurgau frank ** Unterwalden frank ** Uri frank ** Zürich frank Places * Frank, Alberta, Canada, an urban community, formerly a village * Franks, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community * Franks, Missouri, United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherrie Flick
Sherrie Flick is an American fiction writer whose work has appeared in ''Prairie Schooner'', ''North American Review'', ''Quarterly West'', ''Puerto del Sol'', ''Weave Magazine'', ''Quick Fiction'', Lit Hub, and other literary magazines. Flick is also a regular contributor to the ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', which publishes her column "In a Writer's Urban Garden." In 2021, her work was performed by actress Marin Ireland for Symphony Space. She has received artist residencies from the Ucross Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a Tennessee Williams Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She received a 2007 individual artist fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. For ten years Flick was artistic director and co-founder of the Gist Street Reading Series in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is a senior lecturer in the Food Studies program and the MFA creative writing program at the Chatham University, serves as s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
