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poems will appear in Colorado Review, Barrow Street, � e American Po-etry Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review. Orange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art, and the Architecture of Silence is forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press Poets on Poetry Series this fall. He has recently attended readings at NYU, New School University, University of Albany, Nassau Community College, and the University of Michigan, and this summer he will teach at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Poetry Workshop.

Robin Beckerhad nine poems appearing in � e American Poetry Review in the 2009 November-December issue, two poems in the 2009 Baby Boomer Issue of Prairie Schooner, and will also have nine poems in the Summer 2009 issue of Prairie Schooner. She participated in the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference in Denver in April, a reading for Prairie Schooner’s Baby Boomer issue, and a reading for Sisters: An Anthology from Paris Press. Robin Becker will be teaching a poetry and prosody workshop at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown in June, 2010.

Reginald Dwayne Betts’sforthcoming memoir, A Question of Freedom, will be released in paper-back in May. He participated in the African American Read-In at Jeff erson Middle School, the Los Angeles Image Awards, the National Association of Colleges in Florida, the Patrick Hayes series at the College of William & Mary, readings at the University of South Carolina, New York University and Historical Society of Washington, visited the Montgomery Jail with Ethelbert Miller, and attended the AWP conference.

Ted Deppe’sfourth poetry collection, Orpheus on the Red Line, was published by Tupelo Press and was launched at the Galway City Museum, along with Annie Deppe’s second book, Wren Cantata, published by Summer Palace Press. Ted and Annie Deppe will host a writing conference as part of their Curlew Writing Conferences in Howth, Ireland on May 15-22. Ted Deppe directs the Stonecoast in Ireland program, in correlation with the Stonecoast MFA program in Maine.

B.H. Fairchild’srecent book, Usher, contains the poems, “Frieda Pushnik”, which won inclusion in the Pushcart Prize 2010 anthology, and “On the Waterfront,” which will be included in � e Best American Poetry 2010. He participated in the Williams Carlos Williams Award readings and the IMAGE Journal panel at the AWP conference.

Joanna Fuhrmanparticipated in the AWP conference in Denver, the Polestar Reading with Michael Leong and Adam Gallari at Cakeshop in New York City, the EOAGH Reading Series, and will be at the In Your Ear Reading with Karen Weiser & Wade Fletcher on May 16. Joanna Fuhrman will be coordinating the Wednesday night readings at the Poetry Project at Saint Mark’s Church this fall.

Allison Funk’sbook, � e Tumbling Box, was published by C&R Press and is available through Amazon and Small Press Distribution. Allison Funk had a residency at the Dora Maar House in Menerbes, France, in Fall 2009. Her website is allisonfunk.com.

Dobby Gibson’sbook, Skirmish, is a fi nalist for the 2010 Minnesota Book Award.

Celia Gilbertread on April 17th preceding the opening of her show “Scraps of Time” at the Shomburg Gallery in Santa Monica, CA.

Henrietta Goodman’spoem, “Two on the Ground,” was included in the Spring 2010 issue of Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, after receiving an Honorable Men-tion from Cutthroat’s 2009 Joy Harjo Poetry Award. Her poem, “Canada,” which appeared in Guernica in Spring 2009, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poem, “Navigation,” will appear in Valparaiso Poetry Review this spring, and other forthcoming poems can be found in Carolina Quarterly. Henrietta Goodman won the 2009 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, and has an interview on the website, commitmentnow.com.

Marie Harrisis a visiting author at elementary and middle schools, reading from her collections, G is for Granite and Primary Numbers, and she is a primary speaker at � e Children’s Learning Center at St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH. Harris’ verse narrative is presented in the production of “Amy Beach in Words & Music,” featuring the North Country Chamber Players, which includes a performance this August at Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, NH.

Lesle Lewis’poems will appear in Bateau, Tygerburning, Talking River, and � e Disco Prairie Social Aid and Pleasure Club.

Margaret Lloydwill be attending the May 6th Collected Poets Series in Shelburne Falls, MA.

Laura McCullough’scollection, What Men Want, was released by XOXOX Press in January 2009. Her review of Stephen Dunn appeared in � e American Poetry Review in April. Her collection, Speech Acts, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press on October 1st, her chapbook, Woman and Other Hos-tages, won second place for the Flip Kelly Prize from the Gob Pile Chap-book Series by Amsterdam Press, and new poems will appear in Painted Bride Quarterly and � e Southern Indiana Review. Laura McCullough presented in the Stephen Dunn Poetry Retrospective, attended the AWP conference in Denver, and participated in both � e Richard Stockton College of NJ Panel and � e Community College Creative Writing Classroom. She will have an interview with Andre Dubus III this sum-mer with the Writers Chronicle, and she is Poetry Editor for the online journal, Serving House, and editor for the upcoming anthology, A Better Way to Be Alone: � e Mind and Poetry of Stephen Dunn.

Mihaela Moscaliuchad three poems with an introduction by Gerald Stern under “Emerging Authors Series” in World Literature Today. She is the guest poetry editor for Connotation Press: An Online Artifact this May, and she has a poem and interview on thenervousbreakdown.com. She participated in the AWP conference in Denver, in an off -site AJB reading at AWP, and a reading at Fairhaven Bookstore in NJ. She will be at the Middletown Arts Center on May 27 and � e Collected Poets Series in Shelburne Falls, MA, on June 3.

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Suzanne Wise’s prose poem, “� e General,” is forthcoming in Quarter After Eight.

Carole Oles’poems are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner and Consequence.

Carol Potter’sforthcoming poem will appear in Field.

Adrienne Su’sthird book, Having None of It, was named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2009 by the poetry editors of About.com.

Jon Woodward’spoems have appeared recently in LUNGFULL!, Sink Review, and New Orleans Review. He read at the Virginia Festival of the Book in March.

Jane Mead’spoems will appear in the forthcoming issues of Passages North and Inscriptions of the Seizure State. She recently read at Portland State University and spent six weeks at a Lannan Foundation Residency.

Lia Purpura’spoems will appear in � e New Republic, Paris Review, Agni, Orion, Sonora, Brevity, Diagram, Ecotone, Iowa Review and � e Antioch Review. Her book published by AJB, King Baby, was reviewed in the latest issue of Pleiades. She has recently read at the College of the Holy Cross and the College of Santa Fe, as well as participated in the AWP conference and Fordham University’s Creative Writing Program Symposium.

Willa Schneberg’spoems will appear in Poet Lore and Drash. She has a poem in the recently released anthology, I Go To � e Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights, and is forthcoming in the anthology In the Black/In the Red. She read with fi ve other writers engaged in human rights work from the anthology, I Go To � e Ruined Place, in Portland, OR. She also presented at Get Lit!, a literary festival sponsored by Eastern Washington University. Give a Gift!

Coming next season

Parable of Hide and Seek

Chad SweeneyAvailable September 2010

Milk Dress

Nicole CooleyAvailable November 2010

Panic

Laura McCulloughAvailable January 2011