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5 Poets - Celebrating National Poetry Month
5 Poets - Celebrating National Poetry Month
POET BIOS
CATHERINE BARNETT
Catherine Barnett is a poet and educator. Her fourth collection of poems, Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space, will be published by Graywolf Press in May 2024. She is the author of three previous collections: Human Hours, which was the winner of the 2018 Believer Book Award in Poetry, a New York Times “Best Poetry of 2018” selection, and a finalist for the T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize; The Game of Boxes, which received the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets; and Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award. Her other honors include a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2022 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Photo by Farah Al Qasimi poets.org/poet/catherine-barnett
JASON KOO
Jason Koo is a second-generation Korean American poet, educator, editor and nonprofit director. He is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: No Rest, winner of the Diode Book Prize and forthcoming from Diode Editions, More Than Mere Light, America's Favorite Poem and Man on Extremely Small Island. His work has been published in Best American Poetry 2022, Missouri Review, Poetry Northwest, Village Voice and Yale Review, among other places, and won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center and New York State Writers Institute. He is an associate teaching professor of English and the director of creative writing at Quinnipiac University and the founder and executive director of Brooklyn Poets. www.jasonykoo.com/
STEPHEN MASSIMILLA
Stephen Massimilla is a poet, scholar, painter, and author whose books include the multi-award winning Frank Dark; the multi-award-winning coedited social justice poetry anthology, Stronger Than Fear; the muti-genre Cooking with the Muse, winner of the Eric Hoffer Award and many others; The Plague Doctor in His Hull-Shaped Hat winner of the SFASU Press Prize; Forty Floors from Yesterday winner of Bordighera Poetry Prize, CUNY; The Grolier Prize, etc. His poems appear in hundreds of publications. Photo by Tupelo Quarterly www.poetryinfo.com/
SILVINA LÓPEZ MEDIN
Silvina López Medin is a poet born in Buenos Aires and lives in Croton on Hudson, New York. Her prize-winning books of poetry include La noche de losbueyes 62 brazadas , That Salt on the Tongue to Say Mangrove ,and the chapbook Excursion . Her hybrid poetry book Poem That Never Ends was a winner of the Essay Press Book Contest. She co-translated Anne Carson’s Eros the Bittersweet and Robert Hass’s Home Movies into Spanish. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Hyperallergic, Poetry Foundation , Lit Hub and MoMA/post, among others. She is an editor at Ugly Duckling. Photo by Martin Sonzogni www.silvinalopezmedin.com
TIFFANY TROY
Tiffany Troy is the co-translator of Santiago Acosta’s The Coming Desert /El próximodesierto (forthcoming, Alliteration Publishing House), in collaboration with Acosta and the 4W International Women Collective Translation Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her most recent book is Dominus, from BlazeVox. Photo by Human Rights Art Movement tiffanytroy.com/
RUTH DANON - CURATOR
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