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New Issues Press
New Issues Poetry & Prose is a literary press associated with Western Michigan University. It was founded by poet and Western Michigan University professor Herbert S. Scott. Editors have included poets William Olsen and Nancy Eimers. The Huffington Post has called New Issues Press one of fifteen small presses in the United States that "exemplify the best qualities of [the American] publishing tradition." After a two-week vote, The Huffington Post, Huffington Post readers named New Issues number one in the country among the fifteen small presses cited. The press publishes predominantly poetry, along with some fiction titles, including the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, AWP Award Series in the Novel. The press awards two poetry prizes each year, The New Issues Poetry Prize for a first book, and The Green Rose Prize for established poets. Winners of The New Issues Poetry Prize include Paul Guest, Sandra Beasley, Jason Bredle, Matthew Thorburn, Bradley Paul, Malena Mörl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Michigan University
Western Michigan University (Western Michigan, Western or WMU) is a public research university in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was initially established as Western State Normal School in 1903 by Governor Aaron T. Bliss for the training of teachers. In 1957, G. Mennen Williams signed a bill into law that made Western a university and gave the school its current name of Western Michigan University. Western is one of the eight research universities in the State of Michigan and is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". The university has seven degree-granting colleges, offering 147 undergraduate degree programs, 73 master's degree programs, 30 doctoral programs, and one specialist degree program. It is governed by an eight-member board of regents whose members are appointed by the governor of Michigan and confirmed by the Michigan Senate for eight-year terms. The university's athletic teams compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athleti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Mathias
Louise or Luise may refer to: * Louise (given name) Arts Songs * "Louise" (Bonnie Tyler song), 2005 * "Louise" (The Human League song), 1984 * "Louise" (Jett Rebel song), 2013 * "Louise" (Maurice Chevalier song), 1929 *"Louise", by Clan of Xymox from the album '' Medusa'' *"Louise", by NOFX from the album ''Pump Up the Valuum'' * "Louise", by Paul Revere & the Raiders from '' The Spirit of '67'' * "Louise", by Paul Siebel from ''Woodsmoke and Oranges'', covered by several artists * "Louise", by Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders from '' Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders'' *"Louise", by The Yardbirds from the album ''Five Live Yardbirds'' Other * ''Louise'' (opera), an opera by Charpentier * ''Louise'' (1939 film), a French film based on the opera * ''Louise'' (2003 film), a Canadian animated short film by Anita Lebeau * ''Louise (Take 2)'', a 1998 French film * Louise Cake, part of New Zealand cuisine Royalty * Louise of Savoy (1476–1531), mother to Francis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Dodd Lee
David Dodd Lee (born 1959) is an American poet, editor, and educator. Biography David Dodd Lee grew up in Michigan. He earned his undergraduate degree in painting and art history in 1986 and the MFA degree in Creative Writing in 1993, both from Western Michigan University. He is also a painter and collage artist. He is currently a professor of Creative Writing at Indiana University at South Bend and lives on the banks of the St. Joseph River in northern Indiana. Poetry and editing Lee is the author of nine full-length books of poems and a chapbook. He has published poems in many literary journals, including ''The Nation'', ''Field'', '' Denver Quarterly'', ''CutBank'', '' Gulf Coast'', '' Green Mountains Review'', '' Barrow Street'', ''Cimarron Review'', ''Pleiades'', '' Chattahoochee Review'', Diagram', '' Sycamore Review'', Willow Springs', ''Quarterly West'', '' Prairie Schooner'', and '' American Literary Review''. Also a fiction writer, he has published stories in Sou’we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Daniels
James Raymond Daniels (born 1956 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American poet and writer. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, the writer Kristin Kovacic. Life and work Daniels was on the faculty of the creative writing program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1981-2021, where he was the Thomas Stockham Baker University Professor of English. He taught in the Antioch University-Los Angeles low-residency MFA Program from 2007-2021. He currently teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA Program. The majority of Daniels' papers are held in Michigan State University LibrarieSpecial Collections Daniels' literary works have been recognized and highlighted at Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series. He won the inaugural Brittingham Prize in Poetry in 1985 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was educated at Alma College and Bowling Green State University. Works * ''Factory Poems'', poetry (Alma: Jack-in-the-Box Press, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Bursk
Christopher Bursk (1943 – June 21, 2021)was an American poet, professor and activist. He is the author of nine poetry collections, including ''The First Inhabitants of Arcadia'' published by the (University of Arkansas Press (2006)), praised by ''The New York Times'' which said, "Bursk writes with verve and insight about child rearing, aging parents, sexuality, his literary heroes, the sexuality of his literary heroes." Life Bursk was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and received a B.A. from Tufts University, an MFA from Warren Wilson College and an MA and a PhD from Boston University. He lived in Langhorne Manor, Pennsylvania, and taught at Bucks County Community College. He and his wife, Mary Ann, have three children: Christian, Norabeth, and Justin. His poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including ''Paris Review'', ''The American Poetry Review'' and ''Manhattan Review'', and in anthologies including ''The Mysterious Life of the Heart: Writing fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Ellen Kocher
Ruth Ellen Kocher (born July 26, 1965, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) is an American poet. She is the recipient of the PEN/Open Book Award, the Dorset Prize, the Green Rose Prize, and the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and Cave Canem. She is Professor of English at the University of Colorado - Boulder where and serves as Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences and Divisional Dean for Arts and Humanities. Life Ruth Ellen Kocher (1965-) is an American poet and author of Third Voice (Tupelo Press, 2016), Ending in Planes, (Noemi Press, 2014), Goodbye Lyric: The Gigans and Lovely Gun (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2014), domina Un/blued (Tupelo Press 2013), One Girl Babylon (New Issues Press 2003), When the Moon Knows You're Wandering, 2002 Winner of the Green Rose Prize in Poetry (New Issues Press 2002), and Desdemona's Fire winner of th1999 Naomi Long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Seidman
Hugh Seidman (1940 – November 9, 2023) was an American poet. Life Seidman was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1940. He was a graduate of Polytechnic Institute of New York University, where he studied under Louis Zukofsky. His first book of poetry was published when Stanley Kunitz selected it as the winner of the 1970 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. Seidman taught writing at the University of Wisconsin, Yale University, Columbia University, the College of William and Mary, The New School. His work appeared in ''The Brooklyn Rail'', ''Harper's'', ''The Paris Review'', ''Virginia Quarterly Review''. Seidman died on November 9, 2023 after a long illness. Awards * 2004 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press (Western Michigan University) for ''SOMEBODY STAND UP AND SING'' * 2003, 1990 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) grant * 1990 Camden Poetry Award (Walt Whitman Center for the Arts) * 1985, 1972, 1970 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship * 1971 New York State Creati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Rhodes
Martha Rhodes (born Boston, Massachusetts) is an American poet, teacher, and publisher. Biography Martha Rhodes was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her B.A. from The New School for Social Research and her M.F.A. from the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She has taught at The New School University, Emerson College, and at the University of California, Irvine's MFA Program. She teaches at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers A founding editor of Four Way Books, she serves as Publisher and Executive Editor for the award-winning literary press. She has been interviewed in ''The New York Times,'' ''Los Angeles Review of Books,'' ''American Book Review,'' and ''The Best American Poetry'' Blog. She is author of five poetry collections, most recently ''The Thin Wall'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017), "The Beds" (Autumn House Press, 2012), ''Mother Quiet'' (Zoo Press, 2004. Her second collection, ''Perfect Disappearance,'' won the 2000 Green ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Hume
Christine Hume (born 1968) is an American poet and essayist. Christine Hume is the author of three books of poetry, ''Musca Domestica'' (2000), ''Alaskaphrenia'' (2004), and ''Shot'' (2010) and two works of nonfiction, Saturation Project' and '' Her chapbooks include Lullaby: Speculations on the First Active Sense' (Ugly Duckling Press, 2008), Ventifacts' (Omnidawn Press, 2012), ''Hum'' (Dikembe Press, 2014), Atalanta: an Anatomy' (Essay Press, 2016), ' (Image Text Ithaca, 2017), a collaboration with Jeff Clark and ''Red: A Different Shade for Each Person Reading the Story'' (PANK Books, 2020). She is faculty in the Creative Writing Program at Eastern Michigan University. Life Hume received her BA, MFA, and PhD degrees from Penn State University, Columbia University School of the Arts, and University of Denver, respectively. She has taught at Stuyvesant High School, Illinois Wesleyan University, The School of the Art Institute in Chicago and is currently a Professor of English at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Houlihan
Joan Houlihan is an American poet. She is the author of six books, most recently ''It Isn't a Ghost if it Lives in Your Chest'' (Four Way Books), winner of the 2021 Julia Ward Howe Award. Her other books are ''Shadow-feast'' (Four Way Books, 2018), described by the Los Angeles Review as "...a tour de force sheared of excess, breathtaking in its leaps, and thrilling in its sonic resonances"; ''The Us'' (Tupelo Press, 2009) described by Lucie Brock-Broido as: "...like nothing I have ever read or seen...wildly hewn, classically construed and skewed by an imagined lexicon.…both syntactically inventive and radically simple"; ''Ay'' (Tupelo Press, 2014), the sequel to ''The Us,'' described by Ilya Kaminsky as "breathtakingly inventive and yet deeply humane...a narrative and song at once; it is talismanic"; ''The Mending Worm'' ( New Issues Press), winner of the 2005 Green Rose Prize in Poetry, and ''Hand-Held Executions: Poems & Essays'' (Del Sol Press, 2003; Room 204 Press, 2009) whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seth Abramson
Seth Abramson (born October 31, 1976) is an American professor, attorney, author, political columnist, and poet. He is the editor of the ''Best American Experimental Writing'' series and wrote a bestselling trilogy of nonfiction works detailing the foreign policy agenda and political scandals of former president Donald Trump. Early life and education Abramson is a graduate of Dartmouth College (1998), Harvard Law School (2001), the Iowa Writers' Workshop (2009), and the doctoral program in English at University of Wisconsin–Madison (2010; 2016). Career Abramson was a trial attorney for the New Hampshire Public Defender from 2001 to 2007. Abramson became an assistant professor of communication arts and sciences at University of New Hampshire in 2015, and was made affiliate faculty at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in 2018. His teaching areas include digital journalism, post-internet cultural theory, post-internet writing, and legal advocacy. Abramson has written for publica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah Eli Gordon
Noah Eli Gordon (1975 – July 10, 2022) was an American poet, editor, and publisher. Overview Gordon was the co-publisher of Letter Machine Editions, an editor for ''The Volta'', and an assistant professor in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he directed Subito Press. He ran Braincase Press, and was a founding editor of the little magazine ''Baffling Combustions''. His books included ''Is That the Sound of a Piano Coming from Several Houses Down? ''(Solid Objects, 2018),''The Word Kingdom in the Word Kingdom ''( Brooklyn Arts Press, 2015),''The Year of the Rooster ''(Ahsahta Press, 2013),. Ahsahta Press (2013-05-21). Retrieved on 2013-08-29. ''The Source'' (Futurepoem Books, 2011), ''Novel Pictorial Noise'' (Harper Perennial, 2007), and ''Inbox'' (BlazeVOX Books, 2006). His essays, reviews, creative nonfiction, criticism, and poetry appear widely, including journals such as ''Bookforum'', ''Seneca Review'', ''Boston Review'', ''Fen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
