Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series
June 7, 2011
Deborah Bogen's Landscape with Silos won the
X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize 2005. Bogen's poems and reviews appear widely. Recent
poetry can be found in Shenandoah, The Gettysburg
Review, Field, Margie and Poetry International. Her chapbook, Living
by the Children's Cemetery, was selected by Edward Hirsch as winner of the
2002 ByLine Press Chapbook Competition. Although her North Dakota roots provide
the backdrop for some of the her poems, she now lives in Pittsburgh PA,
where she runs free fiction and poetry workshops for talented overworked
academics.
Ellen
McGrath Smith
teaches at the University
of Pittsburgh and in the
Carlow University Madwomen in the Attic program. Poems have appeared or
are forthcoming in Cerise, The Same, Kestrel, Oranges & Sardines, Diner,
5 a.m., Oxford Magazine, The Prose Poem,
Southern Poetry Review, Descant (Canada), and others. Her
critical work has been published in Sagetrieb, The Denver Quarterly, The American Book
Review and other journals. Her poetry has been recognized with an Academy of American Poets award, a Rainmaker Award
from Zone 3 magazine, and, more recently, a 2007 Individual Artist grant
from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Rosaly
DeMaios Roffman taught creative
writing, myth and literature and founded a Myth/Folklore Studies Center at
Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She co-edited the prize-winning anthology Life
on the Line and is the author of Going to Bed Whole, Tottering Palaces, The Approximate Message,
and In the Fall of a Sparrow. She has read her poems in Ireland, Greece,
Mexico, Israel, Spain
and the Czech Republic
and was a featured writer on the BBC's "Writer from Abroad" series.
The recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities
and the Witter Bynner Foundation, Roffman was also was honored with a
Distinguished Faculty Award from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her poems
have been translated into Slovak, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese, and she has
completed eighteen collaborative pieces with composers and dance companies. Her
work reflects an abiding interest in “the ordinary and the sacred.” Her
book of poetry, I Want to Thank
My Eyes, will be published this fall by Tebot Bach.
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