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Doug Anderson has written about his experiences in the Vietnam War in both poetry and nonfiction. He is the author of the poetry collections The Moon Reflected Fire (1994), the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Blues for Unemployed Secret Police (2000). In 2009 he published his memoir, Keep Your Head Down: Vietnam, the Sixties, and a Journey of Self-Discovery. His most recent book is Horse Medicine (Barrow Street Press, 2015).
His awards include a grant from the Eric Mathieu King Fund of the Academy of American Poets, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize. Anderson has taught at the University of Connecticut, Eastern Connecticut State University, and the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Its Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Doug Anderson | Poetry Foundation
Amy Dryansky is the author of Grass Whistle (Salmon Poetry, Ireland) which received the Massachusetts Book Award for poetry. How I Got Lost So Close to Home, won the New England/New York Award from Alice James. Amy's individual poems are included in several anthologies and journals, including Barrow Street, Harvard Review, New England Review, Memorious, Orion, The Sun, Tin House and The Women’s Review of Books. She has also been awarded two poetry fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is the former poet laureate for the city of Northampton, MA.
Amy Dryansky – Poet. Mother. Worker.
Martha Rhodes is the author of five collections of poetry: At the Gate (1995), Perfect Disappearance (2000, Green Rose Prize), Mother Quiet (2004), The Beds (2012) and The Thin Wall (2017). She has taught at Emerson College, New School University, and University of California at Irvine, and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She has been a visiting or guest poet at many colleges and universities around the country and has taught at conferences such as the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, The Frost Place, Indiana University, Sarah Lawrence Summer Conference, and Third Coast. She serves on many publishing panels throughout each year at colleges, conferences and arts organizations, and is a regular guest editor at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the Colrain Manuscript Conference. In 2010, she took over the directorship of the Frost Place Conference on Poetry in Franconia, NH. Rhodes is also the director of Four Way Books, publishers of poetry and short fiction, located in New York City.
Martha Rhodes: Poet. Teacher. Publisher. (martharhodespoet.com)
Hilde Weisert is the winner of the 2017 Gretchen Warren Award (New England Poetry Club), 2016 Tiferet Journal Poetry Award, the 2008 Lois Cranston Poetry Prize, and 2009, 2016, 2020 Fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
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