We are grateful to the literary presses who are co-sponsoring the 2010 Frost Place Festival and Conference on Poetry.
The Festival and Conference on Poetry faculty invited for Summer 2010:
Martha Carlson-Bradley is the author of three collections of poetry: Season We Can't Resist (WordTech Editions, 2007) and two chapbooks, Beast at the Hearth (Adastra Press, 2005) and Nest Full of Cries (Adastra Press, 2000). Her poems have been published in such magazines as New England Review, Marlboro Review, Carolina Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Zone 3 and in anthologies, such as The Poets' Grimm (Story Line Press, 2003). Her awards include the Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society and a Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Carlson-Bradley lives with her family in New Hampshire, at the edge of a state forest. She works as a freelance editor and teaches in the Master of Arts in Professional Writing program at New England College.
Christina Davis is the author of Forth A Raven (Alice James Books, 2006) and the winner of the 2009 Witter Bynner Prize from the Library of Congress, selected by U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan. She has taught at New York University, the Colrain Manuscript Conference and in private workshops in Manhattan. A graduate of Oxford University, she currently serves as the Curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University and as poetry editor of Nightboat Books.
Blas Falconer is the author of A Question of Gravity and Light (University of Arizona Press, 2007) and the co-editor of two anthologies: Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010) and The Other Latino (University of Arizona Press, 2011). He is the recipient of a 2008 Individual Artist Grant and the 2009 Maureen Egen Literary Award from Poets and Writers. He coordinates the creative writing program at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, and is the poetry editor of Zone 3 Magazine/ Zone 3 Press.
Tom Healy is the author of What the Right Hand Knows (Four Way Books, 2009). His poems and essays have appeared in BOMB, The Paris Review, Salmagundi, Tin House, The Yale Review, and other journals. He studied at Harvard and received an MFA from Columbia. He teaches at Pratt Institute and lives in New York and Miami.
Cleopatra Mathis is the author of six books of poems, most recently White Sea (Sarabande Books, 2005). She has been the recipient of many awards, including two National Endowment for the Arts grants and two Pushcart Prizes. Her work has appeared internationally in magazines, anthologies, textbooks, and most recently in The Georgia Review, BigCityLit.com, and Best American Poetry 2009. Mathis was the Frost Place Resident Poet in 1982; that September she moved to New Hampshire to direct a new creative writing program at Dartmouth College, where she now is the Frederick Sessions Beebe '35 Professor in the Art of Writing.
Gregory Pardlo’s first book, Totem, won the American Poetry Review/ Honickman Prize in 2007. His poems, reviews and translations have appeared in American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, on National Public Radio and elsewhere. A finalist for the Essence Magazine Literary Award in poetry, he is recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has received other fellowships from the New York Times, the MacDowell Colony, the Lotos Club Foundation and Cave Canem. Pardlo is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at George Washington University and divides his time between Brooklyn and Washington, DC
Kevin Prufer’s newest books are Fallen From a Chariot (Carnegie Mellon, 2005) and National Anthem (Four Way Books, 2008), the latter of which was named one of the five best poetry books of the year by Publishers Weekly. He's also editor of, among others, New European Poets (Graywolf Press, 2008) and Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing. The recipient of three Pushcart prizes and two Best American Poetry selections, his new work appears in Kenyon Review, Poetry, VQR, American Poetry Review, and The New Republic. His next book, Little Paper Sacrifice, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2011. He is currently Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Central Missouri.
Martha Rhodes is the author of three collections of poetry: At the Gate, Perfect Disappearance and Mother Quiet. Her poems have been published in such journals as Agni, American Poetry Review, Columbia, Fence, New England Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. She has also been anthologized widely, her work appearing in Agni 30 Years, Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women among others. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is a founding editor and the director of Four Way Books in New York City.
Ellen Doré Watson is the author of five books of poems, including We Live in Bodies and Ladder Music, winner of the New England/New York award from Alice James Books and, most recently, This Sharpening, from Tupelo Press, which will also publish Dogged Hearts in 2010. Individual poems have appeared widely in literary journals, including The American Poetry Review, Tin House, and The New Yorker. She is also a translator from the Portuguese, including The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems of Adélia Prado. Watson serves as Director of the Poetry Center at Smith College, visiting faculty at the Drew University MFA program, and poetry editor of The Massachusetts Review.
Baron Wormser is the author/co-author of twelve books, most recently the paperback edition of The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet’s Memoir of Living Off the Grid, Scattered Chapters: New and Selected Poems, and a work of fiction entitled The Poetry Life: Ten Stories. He is a former poet laureate of Maine who teaches in the Stonecoast MFA Program and the Fairfield University MFA Program and works widely in schools. Wormser has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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