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Hunger Mountain
''Hunger Mountain'' is an American literary magazine founded in 2002 by Caroline Mercurio. A member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, ''Hunger Mountain'' is based in Montpelier, Vermont at The Vermont College of Fine Arts, one of the top-ranked low residency MFA (Master of Fine Arts) programs in the country. Originally published in Spring and Fall, there is now a yearly print issue as well as online issues. ''Hunger Mountain'' publishes fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, young adult and children's writing, and visual art. The online issues also showcase author interviews and craft essays. Reading period is from May 1 to October 1, during which time general submissions are accepted. History Hunger Mountain is named for a mountain in Middlesex, Vermont. According to legend, a group of men who went hunting on this mountain always returned home hungry, having caught only one quail between them. This mountain can be seen from many vantage points in Montpelier, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Magazine
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays, along with literary criticism Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Th ..., book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters. Literary magazines are often called literary journals, or little magazines, terms intended to contrast them with larger, commercial magazines. History ''Nouvelles de la république des lettres'' is regarded as the first literary magazine; it was established by Pierre Bayle in France in 1684. Literary magazines became common in the early part of the 19th century, mirroring an overall rise in the number of books, magazines, and scholarly Academic journal, journals being published at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Dove
Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to have been appointed since the position was created by an act of Congress in 1986 from the previous "consultant in poetry" position (1937–86). Dove also received an appointment as "special consultant in poetry" for the Library of Congress's bicentennial year from 1999 to 2000. Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1987, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Since 1989, she has been teaching at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she held the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English from 1993 to 2020; as of 2020 she holds the chair of Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing. Early life Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, to Ray Dove, one of the first African-American chemists to work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Lea
Sydney Lea (born December 22, 1942) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, editor, and professor. He was the founding editor of the '' New England Review'' and was the Poet Laureate of Vermont from 2011 to 2015. Lea's writings focus the outdoors, woods, and rural life New England and "the mysteries and teachings of the natural world." Early life Sydney Lea was born in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. Growing up, his father had a camp in Washington County, Maine. Lea attended Yale University, graduating with a B.A. in 1964. While there, he was a member of the social and literary fraternity, St. Anthony Hall. Later, he received a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Yale. Robert Penn Warren was his mentor. Career Lea taught at Dartmouth College from 1969 to 1976. He then taught at Middlebury College from 1976 to 1989 and at Yale University in 1979. He was a professor in the MFA program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts from 1989 to 2002. However, during that time, he a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorianne Laux
Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952 in Augusta, Maine) is an American poet. Biography Laux worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving a B.A. in English from Mills College in 1988. Laux taught at the University of Oregon. She is a professor at North Carolina State University’s creative writing program, and the MFA in Writing Program at Pacific University. She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review. Her work appeared in ''American Poetry Review'', ''Five Points'', ''Kenyon Review'', ''Ms.'', ''Orion'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Prairie Schooner'', ''Southern Review'', ''TriQuarterly'', ''Zyzzyva''. She has also appeared in online journals such as ''Web Del Sol''. Laux lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband, poet Joseph Millar. She has one daughter. Awards * Pulitzer Prize finalist for Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems * The Paterson Prize for ''The Book of Men'' * The Roanoke-Chowan Award for ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter LaSalle
Peter LaSalle (born 1947) is an American novelist, short story writer, and travel essayist. Life He graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in 1969, and the University of Chicago with an M.A. in 1972. His books include the novels ''Mariposa's Song'' and ''Strange Sunlight''; the short story collections ''Tell Borges If You See Him'' , ''Hockey Sur Glace'', ''The Graves of Famous Writers'', ''What I Found Out About Her'', and ''Sleeping Mask: Fictions''; and two collections of essays on literary travel, ''The City at Three P.M.: Writing, Reading, and Traveling'' and ''The World Is a Book, Indeed''. His fiction has appeared in magazines and journals such as ''Agni'', ''Antioch Review'', ''Paris Review'', ''Tin House'', ''New England Review'', ''Virginia Quarterly Review'', ''Yale Review'', ''Zoetrope: All-Story'', and others. His essays, articles, and book reviews have appeared in ''The Nation, The Progressive, Worldview, Commonweal, The New York Times Book Review, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxine Kumin
Maxine Kumin (June 6, 1925 – February 6, 2014) was an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981–1982. Biography Early years Maxine Kumin was born Maxine Winokur on June 6, 1925 in Philadelphia, the daughter of Jewish parents, and attended a Catholic kindergarten and primary school. She received her B.A. in 1946 and her M.A. in 1948 from Radcliffe College. In June 1946 she married Victor Kumin, an engineering consultant; they had three children, two daughters and a son. In 1957, she studied poetry with John Holmes at the Boston Center for Adult Education. There she met Anne Sexton, with whom she started a friendship that continued until Sexton's suicide in 1974. Kumin taught English from 1958 to 1961 and 1965 to 1968 at Tufts University; from 1961 to 1963 she was a scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study. She also held appointments as a visiting lecturer and poet in residence at many Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Huddle
David Ross Huddle (born July 11, 1942) is an American writer and professor. His poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''Esquire'', '' Harper's Magazine'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''Story'', ''The Autumn House Anthology of Poetry'', and '' The Best American Short Stories''. His work has also been included in anthologies of writing about the Vietnam War. He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and currently teaches creative fiction, poetry, and autobiography at the University of Vermont and at the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. Huddle was born in Ivanhoe, Wythe County, Virginia, and he is sometimes considered an Appalachian writer. He served as an enlisted man in the U.S. Army from 1964 to 1967, in Germany as a paratrooper and then in Vietnam as a military intelligence specialist. David Huddle Bio"> Internet Archive > ''Vietnam Anthology: American War'' > David Huddle Bio/ref> Bibliogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Houston
Pam Houston (born January 9, 1962 in Trenton, New Jersey) is an American author of short stories, novels and essays. She is best known for her first book, Cowboys Are My Weakness (1992), which has been translated into nine languages, and which won the 1993 Western States Book Award. Also, "Cowboys Are My Weakness" was named a New York Times Notable Book in 1992. Houston's stories have been selected for volumes of Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, and Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is a winner of the Western States Book Award, the WILLA award for contemporary fiction, and The Evil Companions Literary Award, and multiple teaching awards. Major themes in Houston's work include relationships between men and women, the outdoors, animals and childhood trauma. Personal life Houston was raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Her parents were an actress and a businessman. She attended Denison University in Ohio, graduating in 1983 with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel '' Practical Magic'', which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships. Early life and education Alice Hoffman was born in New York City and raised on Long Island, New York. Her grandmother was a Russian-Jewish immigrant."Profile: Alice Hoffman." Musleah, Rahel. ''Hadassah Magazine.'' Published June–July 2008. Accessed January 5, 2017. She graduated from Valley Stream North High School in 1969, and then fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Hoagland
Anthony Dey Hoagland (November 19, 1953 – October 23, 2018) was an American poet. His poetry collection, ''What Narcissism Means to Me'' (2003), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other honors included two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, and a fellowship to the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. His poems and criticism have appeared in such publications as ''Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares, AGNI, Threepenny Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ninth Letter, Southern Indiana Review, American Poetry Review'' and '' Harvard Review.'' Biography Hoagland was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina in 1953. His father was an Army doctor, so Hoagland grew up on various military bases in Hawaii, Alabama, Ethiopia, and Texas. He had an older sister, and a twin brother who died of a drug overdose in high school. He was educated at Williams College, the University of Iowa (B.A.) and the University of Arizona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Hicok
Bob Hicok (born 1960 Grand Ledge, Michigan) is an American poet. Life Hicok is a professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech. He is from Michigan and before teaching owned and ran a successful automotive die design business. He formerly taught at Western Michigan University. His first book, ''The Legend of Light'', was published by the University of Wisconsin Press and chosen as an American Library Association Booklist Notable Book of the Year. ''Plus Shipping'' followed in 1998. His 2001 ''Animal Soul'' was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has since published five more books, ''Insomnia Diary'' (2004) ''This Clumsy Living'' (2007) ''Words for Empty and Words for Full'' (2010) with University of Pittsburgh Press, ''Elegy Owed'' (2013) and ''Sex & Love & (2016)'' with Copper Canyon Press. His most recent book, ''Hold'', was published in 2018 by Copper Canyon Press. In 2004, after publishing four collections of poetry, Hicok (who previously had no underg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Hemley
Robin Hemley, born in New York City, is an American nonfiction and fiction writer. He is the author of fifteen books, and has had work published in ''The New York Times'', ''New York Magazine'', ''Creative Nonfiction'', ''Brevity'', ''Conjunctions'', '' The Sun'', and ''Narrative'', among others. In 2020, he joined the faculty of Long Island University, where his is Director and Polk Professor in Residence of the George Polk School of Communications. Life and career Robin Hemley was born to a Jewish family. His father, Cecil Hemley, was co-founder, with Arthur A. Cohen, of Noonday Press. His mother, Elaine Gottlieb Hemley, published fiction and poetry. Hemley graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a B.A. in comparative literature and from the University of Iowa with an MFA in Fiction. He earned a PhD in creative practice from the University of New South Wales in 2020. His writing awards include three Pushcart Prizes in fiction and nonfiction, first place in the Nels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
