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Cleveland State University Poetry Center
The Cleveland State University Poetry Center is a literary small press and poetry outreach organization in Cleveland, Ohio, operated under the auspices of the English Department at Cleveland State University. It publishes original works of poetry by contemporary writers, though it also publishes novellas, essay collections, and occasional works of criticism or translated poetry collections. It was founded in 1962 by poet Lewis Turco at what was then Fenn College, attained its present name two years later when Fenn College was absorbed into the newly founded Cleveland State University, and began publishing books in 1971. From 2007 to 2012 its Director and Series Editor was poet and professor Michael Dumanis. From 2014, its Director and Series Editor is the poet and professor Caryl Pagel. History In its history, the poetry center has published more than 150 titles, including works by David Baker, Scott Cairns, Jared Carter, Chrystos, Martha Collins, Emily Kendal Frey, David Gra ...
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Cleveland State University
Cleveland State University (CSU) is a public research university in Cleveland, Ohio. It was established in 1964 and opened for classes in 1965 after acquiring the entirety of Fenn College, a private school that had been in operation since 1923. CSU absorbed the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (since renamed the Cleveland State University College of Law) in 1969. Today it is part of the University System of Ohio, has more than 120,000 alumni, and offers over 200 academic programs. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". History Public education in Cleveland was first started in 1870, when Cleveland YMCA began to offer free classes. By 1921, the program had grown enough to become separate from YMCA, being renamed Cleveland YMCA School of Technology. Two years later, the school offered courses towards a bachelor's degree for the first time. This is now regarded as Fenn College's founding date, although the college would not be formally ren ...
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Emily Kendal Frey
Emily Kendal Frey (born January 20, 1976, in McLean, Virginia) is an American poet. Frey is the author of the full-length poetry collections ''The Grief Performance'' (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011), ''Sorrow Arrow'' (Octopus Books, 2014), and ''LOVABILITY'' (Fonograf Editions, 2021); the chapbooks ''Frances'' (Poor Claudia, 2010), ''The New Planet'' (Mindmade Books, 2010), and ''Airport'' (Blue Hour, 2009); as well as three chapbook collaborations. Frey’s ''The Grief Performance'' was selected for the Cleveland State Poetry Center’s 2010 First Book Prize by Rae Armantrout. She also won the Poetry Society of America's 2012 Norma Farber First Book Award. Frey’s poetry also appears in journals such as ''Octopus'' and ''The Oregonian''. Frey received a B.A. from The Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and an M.F.A. from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. She lives in Portland, Oregon Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwes ...
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Larry R
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Tim Seibles
Tim Seibles (born 1955) is an American poet, professor and the former Poet Laureate of Virginia. He is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently, ''Voodoo Libretto: New and Selected Poems'' (Etruscan Press, 2022). His honors include an Open Voice Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. In 2012 he was nominated for a National Book Award, for ''Fast Animal''. Work His poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including ''Callaloo, The Kenyon Review, Indiana Review, Ploughshares, Electronic Poetry Review,'' ''Rattle,'' and in anthologies including ''Verse & Universe: Poems About Science and Mathematics'' (Milkweed Editions, 1998) and ''New American Poets in the 90’s'' (David R. Godine, 1991). Seibles was a professor of English at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Life Seibles was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and earned his B.A. from Southern Methodist University i ...
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Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine (; born September 4, 1963) is an American poet, essayist, playwright and the editor of several anthologies. She is the author of five volumes of poetry, two plays and various essays. Her book of poetry, '' Citizen: An American Lyric'', won the 2014 ''Los Angeles Times'' Book Award, the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry (the first book in the award's history to be nominated in both poetry and criticism), the 2015 Forward Prize for Best Collection, the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry, the 2015 NAACP Image Award in poetry, the 2015 PEN Open Book Award, the 2015 PEN American Center USA Literary Award, the 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award, and the 2015 VIDA Literary Award. ''Citizen'' was also a finalist for the 2014 National Book Award and the 2015 T.S. Eliot Prize. It is the only poetry book to be a ''New York Times'' bestseller in the nonfiction category. Rankine's numerous awards and honors include the 2014 Morton Dauwe ...
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Carol Potter (poet)
Carol Potter is an American poet and professor known for writing the book ''Some Slow Bees''. She currently teaches at Antioch University. Early life and education Potter was born and raised in northwestern Connecticut. She earned her B.A. in English/Journalism, Women's Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and her MFA from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers there, as well as her Certificate in Women's Studies. Career She is the 2014 winner of the FIELD Poetry Prize from Oberlin College Press for her book, ''Some Slow Bees''. Her previous collection of poems is ''Otherwise Obedient'' (Red Hen Press, 2007), which was a 2008 Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''Poetry Magazine'', ''FIELD'', ''The Massachusetts Review'', ''The American Poetry Review'', ''Iowa Review'', ''Women's Review of Books'', ''Prairie Schooner'', ''Maize'', ''The Journal'', and '' Arts & Letters'', and in anthologies, includ ...
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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 ...
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Thylias Moss
Thylias Moss (born February 27, 1954, in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American poet, writer, experimental filmmaker, sound artist and playwright of African Americans, African-American, Native Americans in the United States, Native American, and Europeans, European heritage. Her poetry has been published in a number of collections and anthologies, and she has also published essays, children's books, and plays. She is the pioneer of Limited Fork Theory, a literary theory concerned with the limitations and capacity of human understanding of art. Youth Moss was born Thylias Rebecca Brasier, in a working-class family in Ohio. Her father chose the name Thylias because he decided she needed a name that had not existed before. According to Moss, her first few years of life were happy, living with her family in the upstairs rooms of an older Jewish couple named Feldman (who Moss believes were Holocaust survivors). The Feldmans treated Moss like a grandchild. When Moss was five, the Feldmans so ...
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Thomas Lux
Thomas Lux (December 10, 1946 – February 5, 2017) was an American poet who held the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology and ran Georgia Tech's "Poetry @ Tech" program. He wrote fourteen books of poetry. Early life and education Thomas Lux was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, son of a milkman and a Sears & Roebuck switchboard operator, neither of whom graduated from high school. Lux was raised in Massachusetts on a dairy farm. Lux graduated from Emerson College in Boston, where he was also poet in residence from 1970–1975. His first book—''Memory's Handgrenade''—was published shortly after. Academic career Lux was a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College, where he taught for twenty-seven years, from 1975 until 2001. He was also a core faculty member of the Warren Wilson M.F.A. Program for Writers. In 1996 he was a visiting professor at University of California, Irvine. A former Guggenheim Fell ...
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David Kirby (poet)
David Kirby (born 1944) is an American poet and the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University (FSU). Biography Early life Kirby was raised in "the rural south" by a polyglot "medievalist college professor" father with an obsessive passion for the works of Chaucer and a "farm-girl" mother turned elementary school teacher who "taught him how to shoot her single-shot .22 and paid him ten cents for every cottonmouth moccasin he knocked off" in aid of protecting the horses and sheep on their family's 10-acre property in Louisiana. As a child, Kirby took pleasure in wandering the great outdoors; conversing with Cajun neighbors, including "some of the oddest, sweetest people eever met"; and listening to fanciful stories told by his mother "about voodoo spells and people who lived in trees." He began writing for enjoyment at the age of 5 while suffering from polio. Also as a preteen, Kirby occasionally helped bartend for literary events hosted ...
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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 ...
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