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Warren, Nagueyalti

Dr. Nagueyalti Warren's recent publications include an edited anthology of poetry by black women from throughout the diaspora, entitled Temba Tupu (Walking Naked) Africana Women's Poetic Self-Portrait published by Africa World Press; and Margaret by Lotus Press, a persona poem and winner of the 2008 Naomi Madgett Long Poetry Award. A long-time faculty member at Emory University, she recently completed her first novel. Dr. Warren's teaching and research specialties include African American literature, women's fiction, creative writing, poetry, and W. E. B. Du Bois' contribution to the field of African American Studies, the topic of her dissertation. Her current research projects include a book on the writings of Alice Walker. Dr. Warren's teaching and research specialties include African American literature, women's fiction, creative writing, poetry, and W. E. B. Du Bois' contribution to the field of African American Studies, the topic of her dissertation. Her current research projects include a book on the writings of Alice Walker. Warren is a Cave Canem fellow whose poems have appeared in Essence Magazine, African American Review, The Ringing Ear anthology, The Courtland Review and other anthologies and online journals. Sponsored by

Shepard, Neil

Neil Shepard's most recent book, This Far From the Source (Mid-List Press, 2006), was a Small Press Reviews "Pick of the Month," and an "Editor’s Choice" by Notre Dame Review. Poems from that collection were also featured on the well-regarded websites Poetry Daily and Verse Daily.  As Eamon Grennan says of the book, "Shepard's poems range from occasions of public, political concern to moments of the closest private, domestic implication. In mature meditations, in sharply detailed memories, in muscular free verse and lightly worn habits of descriptive verve he manages to make the world his subject." Shepard's second book, I'm Here Because I Lost My Way (1998), offers "essential, elegant poems," according to Naomi Shihab Nye. And Alice Fulton says of it, "From the bitter stuff of history, the filmy stuff of memory, Neil Shepard makes phoenix poems of resurrection and second chances seized. His work bears brilliant witness in a language free of polemics and rich with the sustenance of art. Few poets understand— or restore— so much." The author's first collection, Scavenging the Country for a Heartbeat, won the 1992 First Book Award for Poetry from Mid-List Press. Hayden Carruth praises in it the "clarity of mind and heart and honesty of technique... To read these poems is an awakening." Shepard's poems and essays have appeared in hundreds of magazines, among them, the AWP Chronicle, Boulevard, Harvard Review, New American Writing, New England Review, North American Review, Paris Review, Shenandoah, Southern Review, and TriQuarterly. He is a long-time professor of creative writing in the BFA Writing Program at Johnson State College in Vermont, where he is Senior Editor of the literary magazine Green Mountains Review. He also teaches in the low-residency MFA Writing Program of Wilkes University (PA), as well as in summer writers' conferences at the Chautauqua Institute (NY) and New England College (NH). He founded and directed for eight years the writing program at the Vermont Studio Center; and he is a founding member of the poetry-jazz ensemble, PoJazz, whose new CD, Last Days, is available from Digstation.com. Sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Ib Raae.

McGrath, Campbell

Written in forms that range from haiku to prose, in a voice that veers from incantatory to deadpan, the poetic sequences of Campbell McGrath's 2008 book Seven Notebooks offer diverse reflections on language and poetry, time and consciousness, civilization and art—to say nothing of bureaucrats, surfboards, and blue margaritas.  His most recent book, Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Ecco Press, 2009), is an epic poem of the American west. McGrath’s previous poetry collections are Capitalism, American Noise, Spring Comes to Chicago, Road Atlas, Florida Poems, and Pax Atomica.  McGrath’s poetry has also appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Harper’s and on the op-ed page of the New York Times, as well as in dozens of literary journals and quarterlies and over forty anthologies.  His awards include MacArthur and Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships, the Kingsley Tufts Prize, as well as a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress.  He has taught at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, and for the last fifteen years at Florida International University, in Miami, where he is the Philip and Patricia Frost Professor of Creative Writing. Sponsored by Linda Heasley and Stephen Coady.

Hamby, Barbara

Barbara Hamby is a Writer-in-Residence at Florida State University. Her first full-length book of poetry, Delirium, won the Vassar Miller Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Prize.  Her second book, The Alphabet of Desire, won the New York University Prize for Poetry and was chosen by the New York Public Library as one of the 25 best books of 1999. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2000, Pushcart Prizes 2001, The Paris Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review and many other magazines. She has won three fellowships from the Florida Arts Council and one from the National Endowment for the Arts. Hamby's third book, Babel, was chosen for the 2003 AWP/Donald Hall Prize by Stephen Dunn, who said of her work, "This is poetry that energizes, that dares to give us a high-wire performer's notion of a good time. Sponsored by Southern Poetry Review, and by

Flythe, Jr., Starkey

Starkey Flythe graduated from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, served with the U.S. Army in East Africa, and has taught school in South Carolina and Georgia. He was re-founding editor of The Saturday Evening Post in the 1980s, and won the University of Iowa Press award in 1989 for a collection of short stories, Lent: The Slow Fast. His book of poems, Paying the Anesthesiologist, was published by Ninety-Six Press in 1995. His most recent collection of poems, They Say Dancing, was published in 2000 and explores the tension between the urban and the pastoral, the modern and the ancient, life and death. Flythe lives in Augusta, Georgia. Sponsored by Michael and Suzanne Ainslie, and by Susan and Steve Hoffius.

Brown, Stacey Lynn

Stacey Lynn Brown was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and studied at Emory University, Oxford University, and The University of Oregon, where she received her MFA in Poetry. Ranging from poems to plays and essays, her work has appeared in various literary journals, including Crab Orchard Review, Poetry Daily, The Cortland Review, Natural Bridge, Sou'wester, and The Southern Quarterly, as well as the anthology From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. Her book-length poem in sections, Cradle Song, was published by C&R Press in January, 2009. Poems from Cradle Song have won awards from The Poetry Center of Chicago and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In her work, Brown writes movingly about missing the south, about the astonishing variety of worship below the Mason-Dixon line, and about family.  She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, where she lives with her husband, poet Adrian Matejka, and their daughter. Sponsored by Mary and Howard Morrison.