Black Crow Dress

2012-09-01

Roxane Beth Johnson's first book of poetry, Jublilee (Anhinga, 2006), was the winner of the 2005 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Philip Levine was the judge. She has won an AWP Prize in Poetry and a Pushcart Prize, 2007. She has received scholarships/fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Cave Canem, The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, San Francisco Arts Commission and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from: The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Image, Callaloo, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Beloit Poetry Journal, Chelsea, ZYZZYVA, The Bitter Oleander, Sentence, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco.

Dark Elderberry Branch: Readings of Tsvetaeva

2012-11-01

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Lit from Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books

2013-01-01

Anne Marie Macari

Anne Marie Macari is the author of three books of poetry, most recently She Heads Into the Wilderness (Autumn House, 2008), and Gloryland (Alice James Books, 2005). Her book Ivory Cradle, won the APR/Honickman first book prize in 2000, chosen by Robert Creeley. Macari is the recipient of the James Dickey prize for poetry from Five Point Magazine and she has been nominated for ten Pushcart Prizes. She has taught in the Prague Summer Seminar. A widely anthologized poet, she has also published poems in numerous literary magazines such as The Iowa Review, The American Poetry Review, Field, and TriQuarterly. She is the director of the Drew University MFA Program in Poetry & Poetry in Translation.

Carey Salerno

Carey Salerno is the executive director of Alice James Books. She has an MFA in poetry from New England College. You may find her poems on From the Fishouse and in The Dirty Napkin,Connotations Press, Rattle, and Natural Bridge. She lives with her husband and dog in western Maine.

Mezzanines

2013-04-01

Matthew Olzmann is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.  His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Inch, Gulf Coast, Rattle and elsewhere.  He’s received fellowships from Kundiman and the Kresge Arts Foundation.  Currently, he is a writer-in-residence for the InsideOut Litereary Arts Project and the poetry editor of The Collagist.

Murder Ballad

2012-05-01

Jane Springer’s first book, Dear Blackbird, won the Agha Shaid Ali prize (University of Utah Press, 2007). Her other awards include an AWP Intro Prize, the Robert Penn Warren Prize for Poetry, an NEA grant, and a Whiting Award. She received her Ph.D. from Florida State University in 2008 and now teaches poetry at Hamilton College, in upstate, New York, where she lives with her husband, John Powell, their son Morrison, and their two dogs, Walter Woofus and Georgia. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from such places as Fugue, The Oxford American, and The Southern Review.

Sudden Dog

2012-04-01

Matthew Pennock is a graduate of the Undergraduate Poetry writing program at the University of Virginia and received his MFA from Columbia University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such literary journals as Western Humanities Review, LIT, Denver Quarterly, New York Quarterly, Love Among the Ruins, Guernica: A Journal of Art and Politics, and American Literary Review, among others. He lives in Manhattan and teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and works at Yeshiva University.

Tantivy

2013-01-01

Poet, translator and critic Donald Revell is the author of nine previous collections of poetry, most recently Pennyweight Windows: New and Selected Poems. Winner of the 2004 Lenore Marshall Award and two-time winner of the PEN Center USA Award in Poetry, Revell has also been awarded the Gertrude Stein Award, the Shestack Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as from the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations. He is a recent finalist in the 2005 LA Times Book Prize in Poetry. Presently, he is a Professor of English at the University of Utah and Poetry Editor of the Colorado Review.

Viral

2013-09-01

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We Come Elemental

2013-05-01

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Western Practice

2012-04-01

Stephen Motika was born in Santa Monica, California. He is the editor of Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman (2009) and the author of the poetry chapbook, Arrival and at Mono (2007). His articles and poems have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, BOMB, The Brooklyn Review, Eleven Eleven, The Poetry Project Newsletter, among other publications. His collaboration with artist Dianna Frid, “The Field,” was on view at Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois, Chicago, in 2003. A 2010-2011 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Resident, he is the program director at Poets House and the publisher of Nightboat Books.