R249. Rhyme Gone Radical, or Beyond the Hallmark Card
Thursday, March 31, 2016
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Participants
David J. Daniels is the author of Clean, winner of the Four Way Intro Prize and a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award for poetry. He is also the author of two chapbooks, Indecency and Breakfast in the Suburbs. He teaches at the University of Denver.
Mary Austin Speaker is a poet and book designer. She is the author of The Bridge, Ceremony, 20 Love Poems for 10 Months, and a play—"I Am You This Morning You Are Me Tonight." She designs books and edits Society, a publication project about poetry and power.
Marilyn Nelson, a three-time National Book Award finalist and the recipient of the 2012 Frost Medal, is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets as well as poet in residence of the American Poets Corner at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine. Her most recently published books are My Seneca Village and American Ace.
Richie Hofmann is the author of Second Empire, winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award, and a recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. His poems appear in the New Yorker, Poetry, Ploughshares, and other magazines. He is a doctoral candidate at Emory University.