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Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1954, Catherine Anderson is the author of The Work of Hands (Perugia Press, 2000) and In the Mother Tongue (1983). She has published in the Harvard Review, the Journal, the Women's Review of Books, the anthologies Working Classics: Poems of Industrial Life and Poetry 180, and other journals. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri, and is the Director of Development at the Kansas City Zoo.
Poet and teacher Diana Goetsch is author of the poetry collections The Job of Being...
Prageeta Sharma is the author of Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013); Infamous...
Stanley Miller Williams was born in Hoxie, Arkansas, on April 8, 1930. Williams first attended...
The first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman is the author of The One for...
The author of numerous collections of poetry, Adrienne Rich wrote poems examining such things as...
The 2010 winner of the National Book Award in poetry, Terrance Hayes is the author of seven...