Eric Pankey was born in 1959, in his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. Pankey grew up with two hard-working parents, both accountants. He was successful in school and went on to attend the University of Missouri at Columbia and the University of Iowa. Through his hard work he received a BA and an MFA respectively.…
“I took her spotted hand in mine as we both looked up into the blue, / and the long honey locust pods rattled high in the honey locust tree.” I happened to be going to lunch in New Canaan, so I taped my poem on a tree in the center of town for all to see.…
Stephen Dunn is an American poet and educator born in Forest Hills, New York in 1962. Dunn received his Bachelor of Arts in history at Hofstra University in 1962 and received his Master of Arts in creative writing from Syracuse University in 1970. Since 1974 he has been teaching at Richard Stockton College of NJ,…
Debora Greger is an American Poet and artist. Raised in Richland, Washington, she went on to receive education from the University of Washington and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has published multiple books, such as “By Herself” and “Men, Women, and Ghosts”. Greger has also won various awards for her pieces, such as the Award…
Denise Duhamel is an American poet, creative writer, and professor. She was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1961 and currently teaches at the Florida International University in Miami. Her poem “Humanity 101” is about our perception of the world and her character’s path towards it. Duhamel’s storytelling style in this poem helps paint the…
“He’s headed for a farmhouse / where kind people will feed him.” I posted “Chicken” on the door to Performance, my physical therapy location, because I spend more time there than in school.
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