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Kim Addonizio’s eighth poetry collection is Now We’re Getting Somewhere (W.W. Norton,March 2021). She has also published two novels, two short story collections, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within. Her most recent publications are a memoir, Bukowski in a Sundress (Penguin), and a book of poems, Mortal Trash (W.W. Norton). Her work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA Fellowships, two Pushcart Prizes, and other awards, and has been translated into several languages. Her collection Tell Me was a National Book Award Finalist. Her poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Poetry, The Sun, and many anthologies. She lives in Oakland, CA.
David Keplinger is the author of seven poetry books, recently Another City (Milkweed Editions, 2018), which was awarded the 2019 UNT Rilke Prize, and The World to Come (Conduit, 2021). In 2020 he was selected for the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America. His translations of Danish poet Carsten René Nielsen, Forty-One Objects, were longlisted for the 2020 National Translation Award. Winner of the Colorado Book Award, the T.S. Eliot Prize, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Cavafy Prize from Poetry International, his recent work can be found in Ploughshares, The New England Review, The New Republic, Copper Nickel, Plume, and elsewhere. He teaches at American University in Washington, D.C.
Original Grace is the fourth book in the Snake Quartet and the eighth collection of poetry published by Gary Lemons. Gary worked many jobs, mostly involving hard labor outdoors, to underwrite his life as a poet, but the one dearest to his heart is planting over five hundred thousand trees in the logged-off high elevation forests of the Pacific Northwest. He attended the Undergraduate Poetry Workshop at the University of Iowa, where he studied with John Berryman, Donald Justice, Marvin Bell, and Norman Dubie. He now teaches yoga at Tenderpaws Yoga Studio owned jointly with his wife, Nöle Giulini. Gary currently resides in Port Townsend, Washington.
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