POG events are sponsored in part by grants from

the Tucson/Pima Arts Council and

the Arizona Commission on the Arts

POG also benefits from the continuing support of The University of Arizona Extended University Writing Works Center, The University of Arizona Department of English, The University of Arizona Poetry Center, the Arizona Quarterly, and Chax Press.

 for further information contact

POG:

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tenney@dakotacom.net

Samuel Ace (formerly L. Smukler) is a the author of two collections of poetry: Normal Sex (Firebrand Books) and Home in three days. Don’t wash., a book and multi-media project with accompanying cd-rom (Hard Press). His work has been widely anthologized, and he is the recipient of numerous awards in poetry and fiction including the 1997 Firecracker Alternative Book Award in Poetry.  He has received fellowships in poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Astraea Foundation.

Charles Alexander: poet, maker of books. Directs Chax Press. Books include Hopeful Buildings (Chax Press), arc of light/dark matter (Segue Books), Pushing Water (Standing Stones Press), Four Ninety Eight to Seven (Meow Press), A Book of Hours (5 & Dime Press), Etudes: D & D (Quarry Press), and the forthcoming Near or Random Acts (Wild Honey Press). He edited Talking the Boundless Book: Art, Language, and the Book Arts. Has taught in recent times at University of Arizona (Extended University), Pima Community College, and Naropa University.

Jefferson Carter is Writing Department chair at Pima Community College, the Downtown Campus.  He’s had work in e-zines like as CrossConnect and journals such as Barrow Street and Carolina Quarterly.  His chapbook Tough Love won the 1993 Riverstone Poetry Press Award, and his newest chapbook, Homemade Arrows is just out from Red Felt Publishing.

Andrew Foster is from Vermont.  He writes fiction and poetry.  At this moment, he idolizes Lewis Mumford and Emily Dickinson, and he is at work on a book tentatively titled “Jen Smile.”  A poem of his will be coming in the next Interim.

Maggie Golston is currently on much-needed leave from the PhD program at U Utah. She has an MFA from UA. She is thrilled to be back.

Elizabeth Landry’s work has been published in antennae and in The POG 2 Anthology (on sale here tonight!!).

Rachel McCrystal  is a literature student at the U of A.  Her work has appeared in sanscript. She works as a ballroom/latin dance instructor to pay for poetry and writing classes.

Heather Nagami is an MFA student in poetry at the University of Arizona and the editor of Sonora Review.

Tenney Nathanson is the author of Whitman’s Presence (NYU Press), The Book of Death (Membrane Press), One Block Over (Chax Press), and the forthcoming Erased Art (Chax Press).  He’ll be reading from a book-length poem in progress, Home on the Range.

Tim Peterson is an MFA student in poetry at the University of Arizona.  His work has appeared in Colorado Review and Rain Taxi, and he recently won honorable mention in the Robert Penn Warren Awards—a contest judged this year by John Ashbery.

Frances Sjoberg is Events Coordinator for the University of Arizona Poetry Center and is on the Advisory Boards for POG and Kore Press.  She will graduate with an MFA from Warren Wilson College (recently noted among the top 20 "reefer schools" in US News and World Report--but alas, the MFA program is low residency) this January.    

Jonathan Vanballenberghe teaches 6th and 7th grade English at a Tucson charter school, a job from which he draws much material for his work in progress: “The Totem of Busy Bees.” 

These pages last modified September 2, 2007.

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