Mary Gilliland is the author of The Ruined Walled Castle Garden (2020), winner of the Bright Hill Press Chapbook Competition, and Gathering Fire (Ithaca House, 1982). Her poetry has been anthologized in Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms In Our Hands, Strange Histories, The &Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing, and Wild Gods. Poems have also appeared in AGNI, Poetry, Chautauqua, Poetry…
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Poems on Food, Race, and Identity
Adrienne Su, Professor of Creative Writing and Poet-in-Residence at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, is the author of the newly released collection Peach State (University of Pittsburgh Press). Her previous books include Living Quarters, Having None of It, Sanctuary, and Middle Kingdom. In addition to appearing in five volumes of Best American Poetry, her work has been widely published in…
Grimoire, a New Collection
Cherene Sherrard is a poet, scholar, and essayist, and the Sally Mead Hands-Bascom Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. About her most recent poetry collection, Grimoire (Autumn House Press, 2020), Terrance Hayes writes, “Her ingredients are positively cornucopian, but it’s Sherrard’s keen, enlivening spirit that gives this remarkable book its flavor….[She] shows us how…
Women Sawn in Half
Sue D. Burton’s BOX, selected by Diane Seuss for the Two Sylvias Press Poetry Prize, was awarded Silver in the Foreword INDIES Poetry Book of the Year (2018), and was a finalist for the 2019 Vermont Book Award. She is also the author of Little Steel (Fomite Press), and was awarded Fourth Genre’s Steinberg…
Writing as a Soul Home
Candice Reffe is a poet who worked for over twenty years in the New York fashion industry. Her debut poetry collection, Live From the Mood Board (2019), a uniquely witty and lyrical reflection on her experiences in the world of fashion, won the Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. She’s published poems in journals such as…
Nathan McClain
“I was concerned…that these were the only poems I’d ever write.” Interview by Sara London, WTP Poetry Editor Nathan McClain is the author of Scale (Four Way Books, 2017) and a recipient of fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, The Frost Place, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Currently, he teaches at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts,…