91.3fm WYEP: Prosody

Michael Adams's latest book is Steel Valley (Lummox Press 2010). He has five earlier books of poetry and essays including Whistleblowers and Broken Hand Peak (Turkey Buzzard Press 2009, 2008). He is the winner of the 2007 Mark Fischer Poetry Prize.

Aaron Smith is the author of Blue on Blue Ground, winner of the 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and a chapbook of poems, Men in Groups. A new collection of poems, Appetite, is forthcoming in 2012.

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is the author of ]Open Interval[, the 2009 National Book Award Finalist, Poetry, and Black Swan, winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, both published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Sherrie Flick is the author of Reconsidering Happiness (University of Nebraska Press). A recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, her work has been published in places including Norton’s anthology Flash Fiction Forward.

Denise Duhamel is the author of many books, most recently Ka-Ching! (U. of Pittsburgh, 2009) and Two and Two (2005). She won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and has been anthologized widely, including four volumes of The Best American Poetry.

Celeste Gainey's chapbook manuscript In the land of speculation & seismography is the runner-up for the 2010 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize awarded by Seven Kitchens Press. Her poems have been anthologized in Long Island Sounds and Writing Outside The Lines.

Anne Marie Macari's most recent book is She Heads Into the Wilderness (Autumn House Press, 2008). Her first book, Ivory Cradle, won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry. Her poems have been published in many literary journals and magazines.

Cynthia Hogue has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Or Consequence (2010), and When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina (2010). Among her honors are a Fulbright Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

Cheryl Dumesnil’s book In Praise of Falling won the Agnes Starrett Lynch Poetry Prize. Her poems have also appeared in Indiana Review, Calyx and Many Mountains Moving.

Bob Hicok's book This Clumsy Living (U of Pittsburgh, 2007) won the 2008 Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress. A recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, Guggenheim, and two NEA Fellowships, his poetry has appeared in five volumes of Best American Poetry.

Margaret Bashaar's chapbook Barefoot and Listening was published by Tilt Press in 2009; Letters from Room 27 of the Grand Midway Hotel is forthcoming from Blood Pudding Press. Her poems have also been published in Caketrain and The Pedestal Magazine.

Recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant, Edelman has had her poetry published in Cimarron Review, 5 AM, Prairie Schooner, and Poet Lore. She has published several works, including her first chapbook, A Girl in Water (Parallel Press, 2012).

The Winners of the 2011 Writers Café Contest are student writers from the University of Pittsburgh, reading their winning pieces of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction, led by writer Ellen McGrath Smith.

Shirley Snodey is a member of the madwomen in the Attic Writing Workshops at Carlow University. Her poems have been published in City Paper and Voices from the Attic. Her manuscript is entitled, Barefoot on Southern Soil.

Marilyn Donnelly has always lived, spoken, and written, with a stunning, indelible, original voice. Her poems, while often brief, plumb great depths of wisdom and wit. Her style of humor sweeps cobwebs and confusion far far away.

Derek Green's first book, New World Order, was selected to launch the Autumn House Pressfiction series. He has been the recipient of many awards, including the University of Michigan's prestigious Avery and Jule Hopwood Award in Creative Writing.

Kristofer Collins is the author of King Everything (2007) and The Litrugy Streets(Six Gallery Press). He served as managing editor of The New Yinzer for many years.

Sally Rosen Kindred is the author of No Eden (Mayapple Press, 2011). Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, Best New Poets 2009, and The Journal. She was a Margaret Knight Sanford Creative Writing Scholar at Duke University.

Roberta Hatcher's poems have been published in Yawp, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, and the Comstock Review. She was a 2009 finalist for the Patricia Dobler Award and holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dave Newman has received over a dozen Pushcart Prize nominations, the Liquid Paper Chapbook Prize, the Andre Dubus Novella Award, among others. his chapbooks include Allen Ginsberg Comes to Pittsburgh, Club Boom, Better Business, and Truck It.

Carl Marcum is the author of Cue Lazarus (UA Press, 2001). He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Ragdale foundation.

Claire Keegan is the author of the collections Antarctica, winner of the Rooney Prize for Literature, and Walk the Blue Fields, which won the 2008 Edge Hill Prize for Short Stories, and of the story "Foster," winner of the Davy Byrnes Prize.

Todd Sanders is the author of Underland, and Lack River (Air and Nothingness Press) and has translated the work of Robert Desnos. His website, French Literature, was chosen "The Best American Web Site About French Culture" by the French Embassy.

Jim Daniels' recent books include Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry and From Milltown to Malltown (a collaboration with Charlee Brodsky and Jane McCafferty). he won the 2007 Blue Lynx Poetry Prize for Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies.

Bridgette Shade's fiction has appeared most recently in The Oral Tradition and Clapboard House. She teaches at the University of Pittsburgh among other Pittsburgh area institutions and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Carlow University.

Sophie Klahr is the author of the chap book ___ Versus Recovery (Pilot Books). Her poetry has appeared in journals such as IsReads, Diagram, and the Pebble Lake Review. She is an assistant editor at Gulf Coast.

Kelli Stevens-Kane received a 2011 Flight School Fellowship, was a selected participant in the 2010 Hurston/Wright Writers' Week Poetry Workshop at Howard University, and the 2010 VONA Advanced Poetry Workshop for writers of color.

Jenny Johnson's poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2008, The Southern Review, and Blackbird. She attended the 2010 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, teaches part-time at the University of Pittsburgh, and is an MFA candidate at Warren Wilson College.

"David Herrle is the author of Abyssinia, Jill Rush. He is founder/editor of SubtleTea and his work appears in poetic diversity."

"Metta Sáma, Cave Canem Fellow, is the author of South of Here (New Issues Press, 2005) which was a finalist in the Yale Younger Series Award, the Paris Review Prize, the Stan and Tom Wick First Book Prize, and a finalist for the Kenyon Review Book Prize."

"M.L. Liebler is the author of several books of poetry. He has received numerous awards including The 2005 Paterson Poetry Award of Excellence and The Barnes & Noble/Poets & Writers 2010 Writers for Writers Award."

Jimmy Cvetic is the author of Secret Society of Dog (Awesome Books, 2010). He has run the summer Hemingways reading series in Pittsburgh for over twenty years.

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs's Paper Pavilion (White Pine Press 2007) is her debut poetry collection. Previously, her poems have appeared widely in anthologies, film, and journals and on radio.

Denise Duhamel is the author of many books, most recently Ka-Ching! (U. of Pittsburgh, 2009)and Two and Two (2005). She won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and has been anthologized widely, including four volumes of The Best American Poetry.

Gwyn Cready received the 2009 RITA Award for Best Paranormal Romance and is the author of Tumbling Through Time, Seducing Mr. Darcy, and Flirting with Forever.

Tina May Hall won the 2010 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her stories have appeared in the minnesota review, Quarterly West and other journals. Her novella in prose poems, All the Day's Sad Stories, was published by Caketrain Press in 2009.

Jacqueline Berger is the author of The Gift That Arrives Broken, winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize; Things That Burn, which won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize; and The Mythologies of Danger, winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award.

Cynthia Hogue has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Or Consequence (2010), and When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina (2010). Among her honors are a Fulbright Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

Christiane Leach is the recipient of a PCA Fellowship, a Pittsburgh Magazine "40 under 40" award, and is among the 2010 August Wilson Center fellows. Her plays Saffronia and The Only Good Artist is a Dead Artist have been performed in Pittsburgh.

Sandra Beasley won the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize for I Was the Jukebox (W.W. Norton, 2009). Her first book, Theories of Falling, won the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Pleiades, Gulf Coast, and POETRY, among others.

Celeste Gainey's chapbook manuscript In the land of speculation & seismography is the runner-up for the 2010 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize awarded by Seven Kitchens Press. Her poems have been anthologized in Long Island Sounds and Writing Outside The Lines.

Hinemoana Baker’s first collection of poetry, matuhi (Victory Univ. Press), was published in 2004. Her new book, koiwi koiwi, is forthcoming in 2010. She was the 2009 Arts Queensland Poet in Residence.

Christina Murdock was awarded the 2006 Sara Henderson Hay Prize from The Pittsburgh Quarterly Online. She has been published in The 10th Floor Review, Collision, Pittsburgh City Paper, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

John Temple is the author of two nonfiction books, The Last Lawyer: the Fight to Save Death Row Inmates (2009) and Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner’s Office (2008). He teaches at West Virginia University.

Kristin Naca’s book Bird Eating Bird won the 2008 National Poetry Series MTVU Prize, selected by Yusef Komunyakaa. A CFD Fellow at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, she teaches Asian American and Latino poetry.

Jennifer Perrine’s book The Body is no Machine(New Issues, 2007) won the 2008 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award. She also won the 2008 Lodge Poetry Award. She teaches at Drake University, where she runs the Writers and Critics Series.

Robert Marshall’s book A Separate Reality (Carroll & Graf, 2006) was a Lambda Award Nominee for Debut Fiction. He is a novelist and visual artist living in New York City.

Michael Wurster is the author of three books of poetry: The Cruelty of the Desert (Cottage Wordsmiths, 1989); The Snake Charmer's Daughter (ELEMENOPE, 2000); and The British Detective (Main Street Rag Press, 2009).

Anahita Firouz is the author of In the Walled Garden (Little Brown). She has taught in the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of English and is a founding member of the Pittsburgh Middle East Institute.

Afaa Michael Weaver’s book, The Plum Flower Dance (University of Pittsburgh Press) won the 2008 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence. He has published nine other books of poetry including My Father's Geography and Timber and Prayer