Wick first book series

Victoria Redel—Already the World (1994, Gerald Stern, Judge)

Victoria Redel has published a book of short fiction, Where the Road Bottoms Out, as well as Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize-winning collection of poetry, Already the World. Her latest novel is Loverboy. She currently teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College and in the undergraduate and graduate writing programs at Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in New York City.

Victoria Redel on the Internet Movie Data Base

Victoria Redel's novelLoverboy 

Lisa Coffman—Likely (1995, Alicia Ostriker, Judge)

Lisa Coffman grew up in East Tennessee. She has studied at the University of Tennessee, New York University, and the University of Bonn. Coffman has received fellowships from the Pew Charitable Trust and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and has been Resident Poet at Bucknell University. She lives in Atascadero, California. Her work has appeared in The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Southern Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review and elsewhere.

Lisa Coffman sample poems

Rosemary Willey—intended place (1996, Yusef Kommunyakaa, Judge)

Rosemary Willey received her M.F.A from Vermont College and is now an instrutor at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center. Her poems have appeared in Indiana Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, and other journals.

Rosemary Willey at KSU Press

Richard Tayson—The Apprentice of Fever (1997, Marilyn Hacker, Judge)

Richard Tayson's second book of poems, The World Underneath is forthcoming in 2008 from Kent State University Press. Tayson's co-authored book of prose, Look Up for Yes (Viking-Penguin 1998), was a bestseller in Germany and was featured on Dateline NBC. In addition to the Wick Prize, his poetry has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and Prairie Schooner's Bernice Slote Award (1996)and Edward Taylor Award (2004). Tayson is currently a Chancellor's Fellow at the City University of New York's Graduate Center.

Richard Tayson's website

Richard Tayson at Poets.org

Karen Kovacik—Beyond the Velvet Curtain (1998, Henry Taylor, Judge)

Karen Kovacik is Associate Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She is the recipient of a number of awards, including a guest fellowship at the University of Wisconsin's Institute for Creative Writing, an Arts Council of Indianapolis Creative Renewal Fellowship, and a Fulbright Research Grant to Poland. In 1997, Kovacik won the Wick Chapbook Prize for her chapbook Nixon and I, and her most recent book, Metropolis Burning, was released last year from Cleveland State University Press.

Karen Kovacik's Artful Dodge site

Karen Kovacik at CSU Press

Honoree Fanonne Jeffers—The Gospel of Barbecue (1999, Lucille Cliffton, Judge)

Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, Asst. Professor of English, is the author of two books of poetry, The Gospel of Barbecue (Kent State University, 2000), which won the 1999 Stan and Tom Wick Prize for Poetry and was the finalist for the 2001 Paterson Poetry, and Outlandish (Wesleyan University Press, 2003). She has won the 2002 Julia Peterkin Award for Poetry, and awards from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and the Rona Jaffe Foundation. Prof. Jeffers' work recently has appeared in Black Issues Book Review, Black Warrior Review, Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz and Literature, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Crown, 2001), Callaloo, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (Warner/Aspect, 2000), Indiana Review, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Roll Call: A Genera tional Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art (Third World, 2002), and These Hands I Know: Writing About the African American Family (Sarabande 2002). She is at work on a third book of poetry and her first book of collected fiction.

Honoree Fanonne Jefferes at the American Poetry Review

Honoree Fanonne Jefferes at Ploughshares

Morri Creech—Paper Cathedrals (2000,

Morri Creech was born in Moncks Corner, South Carolina in 1970, and was educated at Winthrop University and McNeese State University. He currently lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana with his daughter Hattie and teaches in the MFA Program at McNeese State University. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Criterion, The New Republic, The Southwest Review, The Hudson Review, Crazyhorse, Critical Quarterly, Sewanee Review, Southern Review, and elsewhere. He has published one previous poetry collection, Paper Cathedrals (Kent State University Press, 2001), and, in collaboration with the photographer Robert ParkeHarrison, two museum-quality limited editions (21st). He has received the Stan and Tom Wick Award from Kent State University Press, a $15,000 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry Magazine and the Modern Poetry Foundation, an artist's fellowship from The Louisiana Division of the Arts, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He was recently awarded a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.  Creech's recent book, Field Knowledge (Waywiser Press, 2006) won the first annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and was nominated for the Los Angeles Book Award.

Morri Creech at the New Criterion

Kate Northrop, Back Through Interruption (2001, Lynn Emanuel, Judge)

Kate Northrop's collection Things Are Disappearing Here was recently released(spring 2007)from Persea Books. She is associate professor of English at West Chester University and a contributing editor of The American Poetry Review.

Kate Northrop at Poets.org

Kate Northrop at AGNI

Kate Northrop at Blackbird

Eve Alexandra, The Drowned Girl (2002, C.K Williams, Judge)

Eve Alexandra studied theater at Sarah Lawrence College and creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh. She was featured as an outstanding emerging writer in The American Poet, the journal of the Academy of American Poets, in the fall of 2002. Other poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review and The Harvard Review. She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Vermont.

Eve Alexandra at KSU Press

Eve Alexandra at the University of Vermont

Lee Peterson, Rooms and Fields (2003, Jean Valentine, Judge)

Previously a teacher of English as a second language, Peterson is currently instructor of English at Penn State, Altoona, where she held the position of 2004 Emerging Writer-in-Residence. Her poetry has been published in various journals, including North American Review, Runes: A Review of Poetry, Nimrod: International Journal of Prose and Poetry, and The Seattle Review. Peterson received her M.F.A from Sarah Lawrence College.

Lee Peterson at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival

Lee Peterson at KSU Press

Anele Rubin, Trying to Speak (2004, Philip Levine, Judge)

Poet Anele Rubin's first book, Trying to Speak, won the 2004 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and this year's Great Lakes Colleges Association's New Writer Award for poetry. In his foreword to the book, Philip Levine calls the movement in Rubin's poems "artful, subtle, and modest," and admires her talent for "encountering the world and capturing the extraordinary in the everyday in language that seems so common and casual we tend to despise it rather than embrace it for what it is, the hallmark of the greatest poetry."

Anele Rubin at KSU Press

Anele Rubin at Kent State University's e-inside

Ariana-Sophia M. Karsonis, Intaglio (2005, Eleanor Wilner, Judge)

A native of Salt Lake City, Utah, Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis received an M.F.A. from the University of Alabama and is currently completing a Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati. Her work has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Florida Review, Glimmer Train, Margie, and other journals. She edits the online journal wordsonwalls.net.

Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis at KSU Press

Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis at Diagram

Anna Leahy, Constituents of Matter (2006, Alberto Rios, Judge)

An Illinois native, Anna Leahy earned an MFA from the University of Maryland and a PhD from Ohio University. Her poetry has appeared in The Connecticut Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Journal, Nimrod, and other journals. She is the author of two chapbooks, Turns about a Point and Hagioscope, and the editor of Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom: The Authority Project.

Anna Leahy at KSU Press

Anna Leahy at North Central College

wick chapbook series one

Kat Snider Blackbird, White Sustenance

Kat Blackbird at KSU Press

Robert Brown, Sleepwalking with Mayakovsky

Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, attended Oregon State University (B.S. in Math Sciences), University of Montana (M.F.A. in Creative Writing), and University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee (Ph.D. in English). Brown taught English and Creative Writing at Kent State University for five years. During this time he published over 100 poems in literary reviews, as well as some short stories, scholarly articles, over a dozen children's informational books, and a collection of poetry (Sleepwalking with Mayakovsky, Kent State University Press). Currently Brown owns a small stock brokerage/financial planning/employee benefits company. Brown has a self-proclaimed "photography obsession" and also enjoy sports, fine wine, travel, literature, and art.

Robert Brown at his photography website

Robert Brown at KSU press

David Hassler, Sabishi: poems from japan

David Hassler is the author of two books of poems, most recently, Red Kimono, Yellow Barn, for which he was awarded Ohio Poet of the Year 2006. With photographer Gary Harwood he is the author of the documentary book, Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community. With Maggie Anderson, he is co-editor of Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School, and After the Bell: Contemporary American Prose about School. He is the Program and Outreach Director for the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, where he conducts writing workshops in local schools and senior centers.

David Hassler Ohio Poet of the Year (2007)

David Hassler at Wick Poetry Center

Mary Ann Samyn, Rooms by the Sea

Mary Ann Samyn is the author of four collections of poetry: Purr (2005), Rooms by the Sea, winner of the 1994 Kent State UP/Wick Chapbook Prize, Captivity Narrative, winner of the 1999 Ohio State UP/The Journal Prize, and, most recently, Inside the Yellow Dress, a 2001 New Issues Press/Green Rose Selection. Her poems have appeared in Field, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, The Ohio Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Verse, Mississippi Review, The Bitter Oleander, Pleiades, the anthology American Poetry: The Next Generation, and elsewhere. She received her MA from Ohio University and her MFA from The University of Virginia where she was a Hoyns Fellow. A 2001 Creative Artist Grant recipient from ArtServe Michigan, Samyn has also been awarded the Emily Dickinson Prize from the Poetry Society of America.

Mary Ann Samyn at West Virginia University

Mary Ann Samyn at Amazon

Anthony Libby, The Secrety Turning of the Earth

Anthony Libby's poems have appeared in The Southern Review and The Antioch Review. He teaches creative writing at Ohio State University.

Anthony Libby at KSU Press

Robert Miltner, Against the Simple

Robert Miltner is Assistant Professor of English at Kent State University Stark Campus where he teaches creative writing, composition, contemporary American literature, and Irish literature. He is the author of three poetry chapbooks—On the Off-Ramp, The Seamless Serial Hour, and Against the Simple—as well as an artists' book, Ghost of a Chance. Miltner's poems have appeared in recent issues of CrossConnect, Poems and Plays, EnterText, Birmingham Poetry Review, Melange, Pleiades, Poetry Midwest, Montserrat Review, and Diagram.

Robert Miltner at Kent State University

Robert Miltner at the Mystic River Review

Jeanne Bryner, Breathless

Jeanne has edited two anthologies, Safehouse: Women Living With Cancer; and Song: Breast Cancer Survivors.  She has written four books, Breathless (1995), Blind Horse: Poems (1999), Eclipse: Stories (2003), and Tenderly Lift Me: Nurses Honored, Celebrated and Remembered (2004).

Jeanne Bryner at KSU Press

Jeanne Bryner at KSU Trumbell

Lou Suarez, Losses of Moment

Lou Suarez is an emeritus professor of philosophy at Lorain County Community College. He has received the Red Mountain award for his chapbook, On U.S. 6 to Providence. Suarez, who has received four awards for his work, grew up in Canton, Ohio, where most of his poetry is set. He wrote many of the poems in On U.S. 6 to Providence while on sabbatical leave from LCCC. His advice for aspiring writers: "Keep writing. Try hard not to settle for the cliché. And let others read what you're writing. It's a great act of charity and love."

Lou Suarez at angle magazine

Lou Suarez at the Poet's and Writer's League of Greater Cleveland

Joseph Bonomo, Vanishings from That Neighborhood

Joe Bonomo's work appears in Denver Quarterly, Sonora Review, Sou'wester and he teaches at Northern Illinois University.

Joseph Bonomo at North Illinios University

Joseph Bonomo at webdelsol

Susan Neale, The Heart's Pangaea

Susan Neale at KSU Press

Stephan Frech, Toward Evening and the Day Far Spent

Stephen Frech has earned a BA from Northwestern University, MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati. He has published two volumes of poetry: Toward Evening and the Day Far Spent (Kent State University Press) won the 1995 Wick Poetry Chapbook Contest and If Not For These Wrinkles of Darkness won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize, published in 2001. His poems have appeared in the Georgia Review, Pleiades, Florida Review, The Literary Review, and others. He has been the recipient of the Elliston Poetry Writing Fellowship, the Milton Center Post-Graduate Writing Fellowship, and grants from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and the Illinois Arts Council.

Stephan Frech at Milliken University

Stephan Frech at Verse Daily

Kate Hancock, The Lazarus Method

Kate Hancock has published a book of poetry titled The Lazarus Method, chosen by the Wick Poetry Center. Hancock's poetry also has been published in the New Virginia Review, Green Mountains Review, Crazy River, Kentucky Poetry Review and Windsor Review. She lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Kate Hancock at KSU Press

Wick Chapbook series Two

Nancy Kuhl, In the Arbor

Nancy Kuhl is the author of the full-length poetry collection The Wife of the Left Hand (Shearsman Books, 2007). Her chapbook, In the Arbor, was winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize and was published by Kent State University Press. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Verse, Fence, Phoebe, Puerto del Sol, Cream City Review, The Journal, and other magazines.

Nancy Kuhl at phylum press

Mary Weems, white

Mary E. Weems, Ph.D. is an accomplished poet, playwright, author, editor, performer, motivational speaker, and imagination-intellect theorist. Weems has been widely published in journals, anthologies, and several books including Public Education and the Imagination-Intellect: I Speak from the Wound in My Mouth (Lang, 2003), developed from her dissertation which argues for imagination-intellectual development as the primary goal of public education. In 1997 her play Another Way to Dance won the Chilcote award for The Most Innovative Play by an Ohio Playwright. Her most recent chapbook Tampon Class (Pavement Saw Press, 2005) is in its second printing. Mary Weems currently teaches in the English and Education departments at John Carroll University, and works as a language-artist-scholar in k-12 classrooms, university settings and other venues through her business Bringing Words to Life.

Five poems from Mary Weems

Colin Hamilton, A Memory Palace

"Colin Hamilton has combined the visible and the invisible into a truly unusual first book. In three poetic sequences, The Memory Palace weaves layers of psychological narrative into separate versions of an inner biography. The writing is exquisite, the mysteries engaging, and the result original."—Marvin Bell

Colin Hamilton at KSU Press

Karen Kovacik, Nixon and I

Please see Karen Kovacik's bio and links above.

Matthew Cooperman, Surge

Matthew Cooperman is the author of the collections Daze, (Salt, 2006) and A Sacrificial Zinc (Pleiades/LSU, 2001), which won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize, and was a finalist for the Colorado Book Prize. He's also the author of two chapbooks, Words About James (Phylum Press, 2005), and Surge (Kent State, 1998). Recent poems have appeared in such journals as New American Writing, Verse, Chain, Pleiades, Volt, Pool, Notre Dame Review, Denver Quarterly, ecopoetics and LIT. He is the recipient of the Jovanovich Prize from the University of Colorado, an INTRO Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Utah Wilderness Society Prize, and the O. Marvin Lewis Award from Weber Studies. A founding editor of Quarter After Eight, and former Fine Arts Work Center Fellow, he has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Matthew Cooperman at his website

Diane Gilliam Fisher, Recipe for Blackberry Cake

Diane Gilliam Fisher's family was part of the Appalachian outmigration from Mingo County, West Virginia, and Johnson County, Kentucky. Her most recent book, Kettle Bottom, won the Perugia Poetry Prize. Her first book, One of Everything, was published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2003, and her chapbook, Recipe for Blackberry Cake, was published in 1999. Fisher lives in Akron, Ohio.

Diane Fisher at Perugia Press<

Vive Griffith, Weeks in This Country

Griffith holds an MFA in poetry and fiction from the Michener Center for Writers and an MA in English from the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of Weeks in this Country, and her poetry and fiction have been widely published in the US and Canada. Her advice on the craft of writing appears frequently in Writer's Digest and in Poet's Market.

Vive Griffith at KSU Press

Jim Murphy, The Memphis Sun

Jim Murphy teaches at the University of Montevallo, just south of Birmingham, Alabama. His chapbook, The Memphis Sun, received the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Award, and is published by Kent State University Press. His poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, The Southern Review, Triquarterly, and other journals.

Jim Murphy at story South

Thomas Sayers Ellis, The Genuine Negro Hero

Thomas Sayers Ellis was born and raised in Washington, D.C., where he attended Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. He co-founded The Dark Room Collective in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1988 and earned a M.F.A. from Brown University in 1995. His work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Poetry, Grand Street, Tin House, Ploughshares and The Best American Poetry, 1997 and 2001. He has received fellowships and grants from The Fine Arts Work Center, the Ohio Arts Council, Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony. Mr. Ellis is a contributing editor to Callaloo and Poets and Writers. In 2005 he was awarded a Mrs. Giles Whiting Writers' Award. His first, full collection, The Maverick Room, was published by Graywolf Press in 2005 and awarded The 2006 John C. Zacharis First Book Award. He is also the author of The Good Junk (Take Three #1, Graywolf 1996); a chapbook The Genuine Negro Hero (Kent State University Press, 2001) and the chaplet Song On (WinteRed Pres s 2005). An Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College and a faculty member of The Lesley University low-residency M.F.A program (Cambridge, Massachusetts), his Breakfast and Blackfist: Notes for Black Poets is also forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press, Poets on Poetry Series.

Thomas Sayers Ellis at his website

Allison Stine, Lot of My Sister

Alison Stine is the author of the chapbook Lot of My Sister (Kent State, 2001), winner of the Wick Prize. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Mid-American Review, and others, and are forthcoming in Tin House, Meridian, and Phoebe. Formerly named an Emerging Writer at Gettysburg College, she is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where she is completing her first novel.

Allison Stine at Blackbird

Juliana Gray, History in Bones

Native of Alabama, Juliana Gray teaches at Auburn University. During the summers, she teaches a poetry workshop at the Sewanee Young Writers' Conference and works on the staff of the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Juliana Gray's debut collection, The Man Under My Skin, is the fifth volume in the River City Poetry Series. Her poems have been published in a variety of literary journals and anthologies, including Yalobusha Review, Sundog, Poetry East, the Formalist, the Louisville Review, Stories From the Blue Moon Café Volume III, and The Alumni Grill 2.

Juliana Gray at River City Publishing

Kent Maynard, Sunk Like God Behind the House

Kent Maynard is an anthropologist at Denison University. His chapbook is based on living with the Kedjom people of Cameroon.  An anthropological study of their medicine, Making Kedjom Medicine: A History of Public Health and Well-Being in Cameroon, is forthcoming. Recent poems appear in Borderlands, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and The MacGuffin.

Kent Maynard at Bellview Literary Review

Wick Chapboook Series Three

Nin Andrews, Any Kind of Excuse

Nin Andrews grew up on a farm in Charlottesville, Virginia. She received her BA in 1980 from Hamilton College and her MFA in 1995 from Vermont College. Andrews' most recent book is Sleeping with Houdini. Andrews is the author of Spontaneous Breasts, winner of the Pearl Chapbook Contest; Any Kind of Excuse, winner of the Kent State University chapbook contest; The Book of Orgasms, and Why They Grow Wings, winner of the Gerald Cable Award. Her book, Midlife Crisis with Dick and Jane was published in 2005 by Web del Sol. Nin Andrews' poems and stories have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies including Ploughshares, The Paris Review, Best American Poetry (1997, 2001, 2003), The KGB Bar Book of Poems. She received individual artist grants from the Ohio Arts Council in 1997 and 2003

Nin Andrews at BOA Editions

Leonard Kress, Orphics

Leonard Kress spent 40 years in and around Philadelphia before moving to the Great Black Swamp in Ohio, where he teaches religion, philosophy, art history, and creative writing at Owens College. He has published 4 collections of poetry, most recently, Orphics, Kent State University Press and a translation of the 19th century Polish Romantic epic, Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz. Recent poetry, fiction, and translations have appeared in Iowa Review, Massachusetts Review, Missouri Review, Electronic Poetry Journal.

Leonard Kress at his blog

Sarah Perrier,Just One of Those Things

Dr. Perrier's interests include contemporary American fiction, confessional poetry, and the nature of voice and speaker in poetry. Her poetry has also appeared in journals such as Cimarron Review, Pleiades, The Journal, POOL, and Hotel Amerika.

Sarah Perrier at KSU Press

Will Toedtman, The Several World

Will Toedtman is a student at the University of Cincinnati and has a B.A. in English. 

Will Toedtman at Verse Dailey

Karen Craigo, Stone for an Eye

Karen Craigo is Editor-in-Chief (along with Michael Czyzniejewski) for Mid-American Review. She is the author of a chapbook, Stone for an Eye. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry, Another Chicago Magazine, Indiana Review, Puerto del Sol, Crab Orchard Review, and The North American Review, among other magazines. In addition to her teaching duties at BGSU, she has served as a visiting artist in the schools through the Ohio Arts Council (OAC). She is a two-time recipient of an OAC Individual Artist Fellowship, and she is a past fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Karen Craigo at the Spoon River Poetry Review

Philip Metres, Primers for Non-Native Speakers

Metres went to Indiana University, where he received a Ph.D. in English and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, both in 2001. He is a poet and translator of Russian poetry whose work has appeared in numerous journals and in Best American Poetry (2002). His books include: Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941 (University of Iowa Press, 2007), Instants (a chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2006), Primer for Non-Native Speakers (a chapbook, Kent State 2004), A Kindred Orphanhood: Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky (Zephyr 2003), Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Selected Poems of Lev Rubinstein (Ugly Duckling 2004), and, forthcoming, This Distracted Globe (2008). He has received fellowships from Thomas J. Watson Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Ledig House, and the Ohio Arts Council. He is an assistant professor of English at John Carroll University, where he teaches American Literature and Creative Writing.

Philip Metres at his website

Catherine Pierce, Animals of Habit

Catherine Pierce's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Slate, Third Coast, Gulf Coast, Barrow Street, Smartish Pace, Mid-American Review, Bellingham Review, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from Ohio State University and currently lives in Columbia, Missouri, where she is a PhD candidate/creative writing fellow at the University of Missouri.

Catherine Pierce at Blackbird

J. Gabriel Scala, Twenty Questions for Robbie Dunkle

J. Gabriel Scala's poems and reviews have appeared in Lullwater Review, Beacon Street Review, Poems & Plays, and Mid-American Review. "Inspired by the story of Secundus the Silent Philosopher and the twenty vital questions posed to him by Emperor Hadrian, J. Gabriel Scala's Twenty Questions for Robbie Dunkle moves swiftly and deftly into the essence of human existence—memory. Imbued with that ancient consideration, Robbie Dunkle emerges as a chance metaphor for the poet's own past, the dead past, which becomes our past, with all of its wonders and wastes, which only brilliant poetry can revive this powerfully."—Larissa Szporluk

J. Gabriel Scala at KSU Press

Joanne Lehman, Morning Song

Lehman is the author of Kairos and Traces of Treasure: Quest for God in the Commonplace. Her essays and poems have appeared in local newspapers, literary magazines and religious and rural life publications.

Joanne Lehman at her website

Maureen Passmore, Stranger Truths

She has had poems published in Sycamore Review and has won the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize. The Pittsburgh resident earned her Master of Fine Arts from Bowling Green State University where she received the Distinguished Master's Thesis Award.

Maureen Passmore at KSU Press

Benjamin Scott Grossberg, The Auctioneer Bangs His Gavel

Benjamin Grosssberg's first full-length book, Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath, won the 2005 Snyder Prize and will be published in 2007. His poetry has appeared.

F. Daniel Rzicznek, Cloud Tablets

F. Daniel Rzicznek's first full-length collection of poems, Neck of the World, was the winner of the 2007 May Swenson Poetry Award and will be published by Utah State University Press this year. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, The New Republic, AGNI, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, The Mississippi Review, North American Review, and elsewhere. He teaches English composition at Bowling Green State University.

F. Daniel Rzicznek at Diagram

Wick Chapbook Series Four

Jason Gray, How to Paint the Savior Dead

Jason Gray is the author of two chapbooks of poetry, How to Paint the Savior Dead (Kent State UP, 2007) and Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo (Dream Horse, 2003). His poems and reviews have appeared in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Shenandoah, and elsewhere.

Jason Gray at his website

Matt McBride, The Space Between Stars

Matt McBride is an instructor in the General Studies Writing Department at Bowling Green State University. He is the recipient of a Devine Poetry Fellowship and has published poems in the Nut House, Ghoti, Chiron Review, and Cooweescoowee.

Matt McBride at KSU Press