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Brimhall’s poetry has been featured in The New Yorker, Slate, Best American Poetry, and PBS Newshour—so wide public appeal. Fascinating, unique, unexamined subject—an investigation into and narrative of the legends and strange happenings of an Amazon River town, and of the people and historical situations there. Subject matter of book intricately connected to author’s intriguing family story.

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Landau is a prominent figure in poetry and well-connected within the academic world – she is the Director of the NYU Creative Writing Program.She has close connections with New York-based media contacts (Oprah.com, New York Times)Her last collection was reviewed in nearly all the major trade publications: Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist

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Jeffrey Brown is an acclaimed PBS journalist and news anchor with a recognizable name, and has garnered media coverage through interviews with recognized artists and poets.Over the course of a year, 90% of all U.S. television households, which are comprised of 217 million people, watch PBS.Specifically, the NewsHour, the program that features Brown, is broadcast by more than 300 PBS stations, reaching 98% of the nation’s television households, according to Nielson.Jeffrey Brown will be participating in a keynote reading and panel at AWP 2015 in St. Paul / Minneapolis. His network includes broadcast and radio contacts from across the nation.He will be traveling around the nation lecturing and reading from «The News» as part of an established PBS lecture series.

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"Jean Valentine has a gift for tough strangeness, but also a dreamlike syntax and manner of arranging the lines of . . . short poems so as to draw us into the doubleness and fluency of feelings."—The New York Times Book Review Quietly marked by elegy and memory, National Book Award winner Jean Valentine's thirteenth book is empowered by her signature clear music and compassion. Valentine leads us chronologically from childhood drawings and wartime memories to the present, where she addresses aging and the loss of loved ones. These poems of tender grace reflect on the small histories few ever fully see. Shirt in Heaven Come upon a snapshotof secret you, smiling like FDR, leaning on your crutches— come upon letters I thought I'd burned— I suppose you've got a place with lots of stairs. I'm at the end of something, you're at the beginning . . . —dearest, they told me a surgeon sat downin the hospital morgue, next to your body, & cried.He yelled at the aide to get out. His two sons had been your students.—me too, little-knowing— Jean Valentine is the current State Poet of New York and author of twelve books of poetry, including Door in the Mountain, which won the National Book Award. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and Columbia University, and lives in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City.

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• Siken is a huge hit on the literary blogopshere and Tumblr.• Much-anticipated second book, almost ten years after his widely-acclaimed Yale Younger first-book award winner, Crush• Siken is loved and admired by the gay community• Siken has a devoted following through his work at the literary magazine spork

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Perillo's previous books of poems have earned: 100 Notable Books of 2012, The New York Times Book Review. It was one of only 2 poetry titles to make the list. 2013 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Associations Award for Poetry 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Full-page reviews in New York Times Book Review and The Nation Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2009 Winner of the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress Macarthur “Genius” Fellowship Perillo has been featured on the cover of American Poetry Review Perillo is the only poet to have won both the Kate Tufts Award and the Kingsley Tufts Award The biography is of interest: Perillo was a park ranger in the Cascade Mountains and in her 30s she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Now she is in a wheelchair. Many of her poems candidly deal with how she negotiates the disease.

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"To be both visionary and accurate, true to physics and metaphysics at the same time, is rare and puts the poet in some rarefied company. Black, like a few other younger poets, is willing to include all the traditional effects of the lyric poem in his work, but he has set them going in new and lively ways, with the confidence of virtuosity and a belief in the ancient pleasures of pattern and repetition."—Mark Jarman, American Poet Lush and daring, Malachi Black's poems in Storm Toward Morning press all points along the spectrum of human positions, from sickness, isolation, and insomniac disarray to serenity, wonder, and spiritual yearning. Pulsing at the intersections of «eye and I,» body and mind, physical and metaphysical, Black brings distinctive voice, vision, and music to matters of universal mortal concern. Query on Typography What is the lightinside the openingof every letter: whitebehind the anglesis a language brightbecause a curvatureof space insidea line is visibleis script a signof what it doesor does not occupyscripture the covenantof eye and Iwith word or whatthe word defineswhich is sourceand which is shrinethe light of bodyor the light behind? Malachi Black holds a BA in literature from New York University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Texas at Austin’s Michener Center for Writers. His poems have appeared in AGNI, Boston Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. He currently teaches at the University of San Diego and lives in California.

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Belieu is one of the poets that Copper Canyon has been invested in since the beginning of her career Fourth Belieu book published by Copper Canyon Belieu’s debut volume was selected the Washington Post Book World as one of the top 5 poetry books of the year Belieu’s last book was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist Her work has appeared in many major publications including New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic Monthly Belieu has taught hundreds of students Washington University, Boston University, Kenyon College, Ohio University, and numerous writing workshops… she is currently teaching at Florida State University. Belieu co-founded VIDA, which consistently makes waves in the literary world

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One of the «Big Indie Books of Fall 2014»— Publishers Weekly "Ted Kooser must be the most accessible and enjoyable major poet in America. His lines are so clear and simple."—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post “Readers [of Splitting an Order ] will find ‘characters’ both strange and wonderful, animal or human. There is a sense that time is passing quickly and that everything worthy must be captured and savored, from an old couple lovingly sharing a sandwich to another sowing seed potatoes to a tribute to an old dog who waits as age and winter approach… Master of the single-metaphor poem, Kooser offers images that evolve, fluid and unforced.”— Library Journal, starred review "Wisdom, compassion, and dignity continue to mark the poetry of Ted Kooser… Splitting an Order [is] a quiet collection that honors small victories and gives reasons to be hopeful."—Elizabeth Lund, The Christian Science Monitor "Kooser's ability to discover the smallest detail and render it remarkable is a rare gift."— Bloomsbury Review Pulitzer Prize winner and best selling poet Ted Kooser calls attention to the intimacies of life through commonplace objects and occurrences: an elderly couple sharing a sandwich is a study in transcendent love, while a tattered packet of spinach seeds calls forth innate human potential. This long-awaited collection from the former U.S. Poet Laureate—ten years in the making—is rich with quiet and profound magnificence. From «Splitting an Order»: I like to watch an old man cutting a sandwich in half… and then to see him lift halfonto the extra plate that he asked the server to bring,and then to wait, offering the plate to his wifewhile she slowly unrolls her napkin and places her spoon,her knife and her fork in their proper places,then smoothes the starched white napkin over her kneesand meets his eyes and holds out both old hands to him. Ted Kooser is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including Delights and Shadows (Copper Canyon Press), which won the Pulitzer Prize. A former US Poet Laureate, Kooser serves as editor for «American Life in Poetry,» a nationally syndicated weekly newspaper column.

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2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist "Compass Rose [is] a collection in which the poet uses capacious intelligence and lyrical power to offer a dazzling picture of our inter-connected world."—Pulitzer Prize finalist announcement [Sze] brings together disparate realms of experience—astronomy, botany, anthropology, Taoism—and observes their correspondences with an exuberant attentiveness."—The New Yorker A child playing a game, tea leaves resting in a bowl, an abandoned dog, a foot sticking out from a funeral pyre, an Afghan farmer pausing as mortars fire at the enemy: in Arthur Sze's tenth book, the world spins on many points of reference, unfolding with full sensuous detail. Arthur Sze is the author of The Ginkgo Light (2009), Quipu (2005), and The Redshifting Web (1998). He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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