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Allison Wilkins at the Literary Lounge

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Feb 132013

Allison Wilkins photo credit: Ariel Myers

Allison Wilkinsis a graduate of the University of Nevada Las Vegas International MFA program. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming with STILL, Broken Bridge Review, The Georgetown Review, The Adirondack Review, Platte Valley Review and others. Her published critical work explores the poetry and prose of Sylvia Plath and she has been a fellow at VCCA. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Poetry Editor of the James Dickey Review at Lynchburg College.

Thursday, April 18, 2013

7:30pm. Free and open to the public

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David Mills

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October 21, 2010 David Mills has lived as writer-in-residence in Langston Hughes’ home and has been a VCCA fellow twice. He has won fellowships from Breadloaf and NYU’s Henry Jame Fellowship and had poems published in Fence, Jubilat, Callaloo and forthcoming in Ploughshares. He has also written for Rollling Stone, The Washington Post, the Boston GLobe and has recorded some of his poetry on RCA jazz saxophonist Steve Coleman’s album “Black Science.” Mills’ will read from his new book “The Dream Detective”, which is a small press bestseller.

“David Mills is a poet of lyric comic mystic worldly independence. His work ranges from meditative to satirical to gently outrageous, a reflective and varied wit running (punning) through his poem-by-poem characterizations of mind,” writes Anselm Berrigan.

Kevin McFadden

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April 17, 2008 Kevin McFadden is the author of Hardscrabble, an inaugural selection in the VQR Poetry Series. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, Shenandoah, and in other publications. His essays and critical work have appeared in Quarterly West, The Hollins Critic, The Virginia Quarterly Review and Agni Online. Associate Program Director of the Virginia Festival of the Book, he lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Bunny GoodJohn

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Jan 172008

January 17, 2008 Bunny GoodJohn emigrated to the USA from the UK in 1999. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in various literary magazines and anthologies including The Texas Review, The Cortland Review, and Wind Magazine. Her first novel “Sticklebacks and Snow Globes” is due for release by New York publishing house Permanent Press in October 2007, and her poetry collection “The Weather House” is looking for a publisher.

Ramón García

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October 9, 2007 Ramón García was born in Mexico and grew up in California. His poetry has appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies including The Americas Review; Best American Poetry 1996; Poesida: Aids Poetry from Latin America, the United States and Spain; The Paterson Literary Review; Quarry West and The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S.Hispanic Literature; Margie. He is also part of ALARMA, Los Angeles performance collective that focuses on street performances and films that reject and recast our expectations and certainties about identity. Garcia is an associate professor at California State University.

Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda

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Sep 202007

September 20, 2007 Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda served as Virginia’s Poet Laureate 2006-2008. She is a poet, painter, sculptor, and lifelong educator. Her publications include four books of verse, articles on writing, and book chapters on poetry and thinking skills.

Her poetry honors include three Pushcart Prize nominations, an Edgar Allan Poe first place award, and three Artist-in-Education grants and one Arts-on-the-Road grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

In 1992, she was named a Virginia Cultural Laureate for her contributions in the field of American Literature.

Marguerite Watkins

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May 172007

May 17, 2007 Marguerite Watkins, poet/memoirist, spent most of her childhood in India . Her prose and poetry reflect this background and touch on a slice of Indian and British history. She will be presenting work from her newest collection of poetry, Patterns in Henna. In addition to this publication, she has a memoir and a chapbook. Watkins considers herself an “adopted Lynchburger.” She earned her Masters from Lynchburg College and has taught at the Laurel Regional School.

Charlotte Matthews

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April 19, 2007 Charlotte Matthews is the author of a full-length collection of poetry, Green Stars (Iris Publishing Group, 2005). She is also the author of two chapbooks, A Kind of Devotion (Palanquin Press, 2004), and Biding Time (Half Moon Bay Press, 2005). Her work has recently appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Borderlands, Tar River Poetry, and The Potomac Review. She is the recipient of numerous awards for both teaching and writing including a fellowship from Brown, a grant from the Klingenstein Foundation, and is a 2007 Prize Winner from the Fellowship of Southern Poets. She is a graduate of UVa and The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She teaches in the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary and Professional Studies at the UVa,

Gary Short

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April 19, 2007 Gary Short is the author of three books of poetry. His latest book is Ten Moons and 13 Horses. His book, Flying Over Sonny Liston, received the Western States Book Award. Short has garnered many awards and honors including a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University and a term at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He has been a resident at Centrum, the MacDowell colony and VCCA. In 2003, his poems were published in Albania, translated by the poet Luljeta Lleshanaku whom he met when both were fellows at VCCA. He has worked for the United Nations Verification Mission and been a professor at the University of Fairbanks, Alaska and Old Dominion University.

Ann Fisher Wirth

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March 15, 2007 Ann Fisher Wirth is the author of William Carlos Williams and Autobiography: The Woods of His Own Nature, published in 1989. Ann’s poems have appeared in many journals, among them the Georgia Review, the Kenyon Review, Feminist Studies, ISLE, the Southwest Review, the Valparaiso Review, Flyway, and the Florida Review. Her first book of poems, Blue Window, will appear from Archer Books in September of 2003. Her chapbook of poems, The Trinket Poems, was runner-up in 2003 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Chapbook Competition and will be published by Wind in June 2003.

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Allison Wilkins at the Literary Lounge

David Mills

Kevin McFadden

Bunny GoodJohn

Ramón García

Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda

Marguerite Watkins

Charlotte Matthews

Gary Short

Ann Fisher Wirth

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