Joanna Solfrian
Poetry Workshop participant '06Her second book of poems, The Mud Room, was released by MadHat press in April, 2020.
Alumni News - 2020 Quarter 2 Poetry News
Cornelius Eady
Poetry Workshop Teaching Staff '92, '99, '01, '04He was interviewed for Yale University’s Beinecke Library Corona Series. He discussed the on-going music project he is working on remotely with his folk trio (himself, with guitarists Lisa Liu and Charlie Rauh). Check it out here.
Penny Cagan
Poetry Participant '92, '93; Writers Workshop participant '92She has entered into a 7 1/2 year cycle called Daf Yomi, where people around the world read the same portion of the Talmud each day. She has been writing daily about the readings from a literary perspective in the Times of Israel. Her blog can be found here.
Anthony Cody
Poetry Participant '18His debut Borderland Apocrypha was recently published in April 2020 with Omnidawn. The collection was the winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge. In her citation Berssenbrugge writes, “Intense feeling, empathy, rage, compassion swerves language, torques the page. History and data inflict. Intelligence composes, sequence wrestles with violence. It must be witnessed, expressed. The love is expression. Witness is form.” The collection is now available for purchase.
Attended with the help of Galway Kinnell Memorial Scholarship
Ann Tweedy
Poetry Participant, '20, '15, '12, '07, '04, '00, '97Her chapbook Beleaguered Oases, first published in 2010 by tcCreativePress, was republished in Seven Kitchens Press’s Rebound Series in April 2020.
Sarah Maclay
Poetry Participant, '97, '06, '19Her poem “A Mirror of Leaves” appears in the Winter 2020 volume of Hotel Amerika.
Erin L. McCoy
Poetry Participant, '16She recently won second place in the 2019–2020 Rougarou Poetry Contest, judged by CAConrad, for her poem, “How a lake flash-froze a herd of horses.”
Kristi Maxwell
Poetry Participant, ‘02Her seventh book of poems, My My, was published by Saturnalia Books in May, 2020.
Alice Jones
Poetry Participant, '88, '89. Teaching Staff, Writing the Medical experienceHer newest collection, Vault, was recently published by Apogee Press. A poem in the book, “Spell,” won the first annual Narrative Magazine Poetry Prize.
Ken Haas
Poetry Workshop participant '08, '11, '13, '16, '19His first full-length poetry collection, Borrowed Light, was recently published by Red Mountain Press, and won the 2020 Red Mountain Discovery Award.
Maxima Kahn
Poetry Participant, '07; Writers Workshops Participant '06, '10Her first full-length collection of poems, Fierce Aria, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in summer 2020.
Attended with the help of Mary Turnbull Scholarship
Meryl Natchez
Poetry Participant, '87...2013Her second book of original poetry, Catwalk, is forthcoming in June, 2020, from Longship Press. Preorders available here.
Richard Tayson
Poetry Participant, '93His poem, “Antigone’s Dream,” appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Colorado Review.
Lynne Goldsmith
Poetry Participant '00Her book, Secondary Cicatrices, won a Human Relations Indie Book Award for poetry.
Leah Naomi Green
Poetry Participant '08Her essay “Return, Investment, Return” appeared in The Paris Review in April 2020 around the debut of her book The More Extravagant Feast (Graywolf Press), selected by Li-Young Lee for the 2019 Walt Whitman Award of The Academy of American Poets.
Judy Halebsky
Poetry Workshop participant '06, '09, '11, '14Her newest collection of poetry, Spring and a Thousand Years, winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, was recently published by University of Arkansas Press.
Beatrice Bowles
Poetry Workshop participant '91Her new storybook, Spider Grandmother’s Web of Wonder, is now available for pre-order on Amazon. It will be published April 30, 2020.
Meryl Natchez
Poetry Workshop participant '13, '09, '05, '00, '88Hew new book of poetry, Catwalk, will be published by Longship Press in June, 2020.