Phoebe North (MFA, 2009) Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2013 ISBN: 9781442459533 Terra has never known anything but life aboard the Asherah, a city-within-a-spaceship that left Earth five hundred years ago in search of refuge. At sixteen, working a job that doesn’t interest her, and living with a grieving father who only notices […]
Randall Mann (MFA, 1997) University of Chicago Press, 2009 ISBN: 9780226503448 Randall Mann’s Breakfast with Thom Gunn is a work both direct and unsettling. Haunted by the afterlife of Thom Gunn (1929–2004), one of the most beloved gay literary icons of the twentieth century, the poems are moored in Florida and California, but the backdrop is “pitiless,” […]
Margaret Mackinnon (MFA, 1991) Silverfish Review Press, 2013 “Margaret Mackinnon is a compelling voice in American poetry. Her début collection, The Invented Child, is beautifully poised between reticence and candor. Frequently inspired by visual art, she writes lovingly of her parents, her husband, her child, but also of Sophia Hawthorne and Walt Whitman and Grant Wood, […]
Matthew Ladd (MFA, 2006) Waywiser Press, 2010 ISBN: 9781904130437 The Book of Emblems takes its title from the devotional genre, popular throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, whose allegorical illustrations were meant to focus the mind on the divine. Using a variety of narrative voices, a taut lyricism, and an array of imageries culled from the […]
Andrew Kozma (MFA, 2002) Zone 3 Press, 2007 ISBN: 9780978612719 “In Andrew Kozma’s poems, the world is intriguingly askew: ‘The desert sky opens like the mouth of a dying fish.’ Cafés undress, walls merge with air, and rooms speak, sometimes even returning one’s gaze, projecting strange images that will shadow you like portraits whose eyes […]
Noelle Kocot (MFA, 1995) Wave Books, 2013 ISBN: 9781933517742 Noelle Kocot’s sixth collection, built from the rubble and strangeness of everyday life, exists outside of time or telescope. Soul in Space is a masterful combination of Kocot’s intimacy of voice and authority over poetic form, and it leaves a brighter, weirder world in its wake.
Noelle Kocot (MFA, 1995) Four Way Books, 2001 ISBN: 1884800327 Winner of the Levis Prize Winner of the Greenwall Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Selected by the Poetry Book Club of the Academy of American Poets Exciting Debut.
John Brandon (MFA pending) McSweeney’s, 2013 ISBN: 9781936365739 On the top floor of a small desert hospital, an unlikely piano prodigy lies in a coma, attended to by his gruff, helpless father. Outside the clinic, a motley vigil assembles beneath a reluctant New Mexico winter—all watched by a disconsolate wolf on his nightly rounds. To […]
John Brandon (MFA Pending) McSweeney’s, 2008 ISBN: 9781932416909 Arkansas is a biting first novel full of wet T-shirt contests, illicit drugs, and cross-country road trips. There are the days: the dappled grounds, the aimless yardwork, the hours in the booth giving directions to families in SUVs. And then there are the nights: crisscrossing the South with […]
Bill Beverly (MFA, 1991) WordFarm, 2013 ISBN: 9781602260139 In this anthology, editors Deborah Ager, Bill Beverly and John Poch showcase 64 of the best poems to appear in 32 Poems Magazine during its first 10 years of publication. Each poet also offers brief commentary on his or her selected poem. Featuring a wide variety of forms, topics […]
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