Nov. 14, 2008: Georgia Poetry Circuit welcomes poet Michael Waters, time and location TBA.
Michael Waters' most recent book, Darling Vulgarity , has been selected as a finalist for the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Poetry category. He is Professor of English at Salisbury University in Maryland where he teaches creative writing and American literature. He has published seven collections of poetry, including four from BOA Editions: Darling Vulgarity (2006); Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems (2001); Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum (1997) and Not Just Any Death (1979) and three from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Among Waters' awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, three Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, four Pushcart Prizes, and Residency Fellowships at Yaddo, MacDowell, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Tyrone Guthrie Center (Ireland) and most recently, at St. James Centre on Malta. Waters lives with his family in Salisbury, Maryland. (From BOA Editions)
Jan. 29, 2009: Georgia Poetry Circuit welcomes poet David St. John, time and location TBA.
David St. John was born in Fresno, California, in 1949, and educated at California State University, Fresno, where he received his B.A. In 1974, he received an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. He is the author of six books of poetry, including Prism (Arctos Press, 2002), Study for the World's Body: New and Selected Poems (1994), No Heaven (1985), and Hush (1976). His awards include the Discover/ The Nation prize, the James D. Phelan Prize, and the prix de Rome fellowship in literature. He has also received several National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a Guggenheim Fellowship. St. John currently teaches in the English Department at University of Southern California, Los Angeles. (source: Poets. org, photo by Rex Wilder)
Mar. 30, 2009: Georgia Poetry Circuit welcomes poet Kelly Cherry, time and location TBA.
Kelly Cherry is the author of seventeen books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction (criticism, memoir, and essay), including the poetry collections God's Loud Hand, Death and Transfiguration, and Rising Venus. Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, she lives with her husband on a small farm in Virginia. Her newest book, Hazard and Prospect, was published by LSU Press in 2007.
April 2009: Second Annual Senior Reading for Creative Writing Concentration, date and time TBA
