Denise Duhamel was born on June 13, 1961 in Rhode island, earned her B.F.A. from Emerson College, and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawerence College. She currently resides in Florida, teaching classes on creative writing and literature at Florida International University. Shortly after beginning her graduation, she started her career in literature with her earliest books,…
Chris Forhan was born in Seattle Washington on November 6, 1959. He currently lives in Indiana with his wife and two children, where he is a professor of creative writing at Butler University. He is the author of a memoir, My Father Before Me (2016), along with three books of poetry: Black Lept In (2009),…
Arthur Sze was born in December 1950 in New York City, and he now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he serves as Professor Emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He has written 11 poetry collections, including The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems; Sight Lines, which received the National Book Award…
Michael Collier, born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1953, received his undergraduate degree at Connecticut College and earned his MFA at the University of Arizona. Currently, he lives in Cornwall, Vermont, and is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is the author of eight books of poems, including The Clasp and…
Anthony Madrid was born in 1985 in Bethesda, Maryland and currently lives in Chicago. He graduated as a PhD student from the University of Chicago (in the graduate program in English language and literature), with an MD from Columbia University, an M.F.A. from the University of Arizona, and a BA from Penn State. Some publications…
Sigurd Glad first interviewed A.E. Stallings back in 2017, asking her five questions that were inspired by her poem “The Barnacle.” Having recently read selections from This Afterlife, Ms. Stallings’s 2022 collection of poems, I was happy to have the chance to circle back and reconnect with one of this site’s favorite poets. A. E.…
Destiny O. Birdsong is an African American poet born in 1981 in Louisiana and currently lives in Nashville. She attended Fisk University, where she received her BA in English and history, and Vanderbilt University, where she received her MFA in poetry and PhD in English. Over time, some hallmarks of her work have become exploring…
Elaine Equi’s latest book is The Intangibles from Coffee House Press. A new collection, Out of the Blank, is forthcoming in 2025. Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Brooklyn Rail, Big Other, Plume, New American Writing, and many other journals. In 2023, she served as guest editor of the annual anthology Best…
Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1946, Lawrence Raab is rightfully considered an esteemed contemporary American poet whose work has captivated readers with its introspection and little bits of quick wit laced between the lines. Raab currently resides in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he has been deeply involved with William’s college as the Morris Professor of Rhetoric…
Robert Pinsky was born on October 20th, 1940, in Long Branch, New Jersey. He graduated from Rutgers University and then attended Stanford University to receive his PhD, graduating in 1966. He is currently a professor at Boston University, teaching English and Creative Writing in the graduate writing program. Pinsky has written numerous books, including At…