BIOGRAPHY

 

Married, two daughters.  Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Assumption College, Worcester, MA.  Author of Grace, winner of the 2005 AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006).  Author of In My Father’s House, winner of the 1993 Bluestem Award from Emporia State University in Kansas, and Bread Without Sorrow (2001) from Lynx House Press, Spokane, WA, winner of the Balcones Poetry Prize (2002).  Winner of the 2005 Ruth Stone Poetry Prize from Hunger Mountain (Vermont College), the 2005 Foley Poetry Prize from America Magazine, and the first place 2006 Press Award for Best Original Poetry from the Catholic Press Association.  Grace has been named a Finalist for the Boston Authors Club 2007 Julia Ward Howe Book Prize, and as a Finalist for the 2007 Paterson Poetry Prize.  Winner of the 2008 Chad Walsh Prize in Poetry from Beloit Poetry Review.  Next book of poems forthcoming in the fall of 2010 from University of Pittsburgh Press.  Upcoming poems in Poetry, Slate, Ploughshares, and Beloit Poetry Review.

Links: hodgen@hotmail.com and http://johnhodgen.blogspot.com

 

Terry Farish is the author of Flower Shadows (William Morrow, 1992), a much acclaimed novel about the Vietnam War, and two works for young adults, Shelter for a Seabird and Why I'm Already Blue.   She has worked as an editor, a social worker, a librarian, and for the Red Cross in Vietnam. She studied at Texas Women's University and Antioch, and lives in New Hampshire.   Terry has been awarded a New Hampshire State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and the Middlesex County Award for Fiction.

Rodger Martin’s third volume of poetry, The Blue Moon Series, (Hobblebush Books:  2007) was selected by Small Press Review as one of its bi-monthly picks of the year.  He is an artist for the New Hampshire State Arts in Education roster and a touring artist for the New England States Touring Foundation administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA).  He has been awarded an Appalachia award for poetry and a New Hampshire State Council on the Arts award for fiction.  Additionally he has received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Humanities to study T.S. Eliot and Thomas Hardy at Oxford University and John Milton at Duquesne University.   His work has been published in literary journals throughout the United States and China where he also wrote a series of essays on American poetry for The Yangtze River Journal.  He and six colleagues have been featured in a new book On the Monadnock: New Pastoral Poetry released in China in 2007. 

 Martin often collaborates with other artists.  He was selected as one of the finalists for the Portsmouth “Voice and Vision” project and his collaboration Anthem Concatenus, with painter Vicki Arico, a tribute to the submarine USS Albacore now hangs in the Portsmouth Court House.  Another of Martin’s collaborative work with musicians, The Battlefield Guide, has been performed throughout New England.  He collaborated with the Nashua Symphony and Nashua high school writers as part of The Ripple Effect II which premiered in April, 2008.

 He is managing editor of The Worcester Review and teaches journalism at Keene State College.  He currently is the New Hampshire state director for the NEA and Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Out Loud Project.

 Additionally, Martin directs The Milton Ensemble dedicated to the dramatic presentation of Paradise Lost by John Milton.  2008 will mark their recording of an eighth book from the twelve complete books of the epic poem.    His critical work “The Colonization of Paradise: Milton’s Pandemonium and Montezuma’s Tenochtitlan” published in Comparative Literature Studies broke new ground in Milton studies.   

 He was born in the Amish country of Pennsylvania, lived in England as a child, served as a combat engineer in Vietnam, and spent many years teaching both in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. 

Adelle Leiblein was born in 1951 to working class parents in central Massachusetts. She was the first in her family to receive a University education, first earning an undergraduate degree in English from the University of Massachusetts and years later receiving a Master's degree from the Creative Writing Program at Boston University.

Ms. Leiblein has developed a curriculum for the teaching of writing that employs art-making as an integral part of the process, leading her students to paint, draw, sculpt, and make collage works as part of their writing practice. She is a founding member of Every Other Thursday, a poets' group and press. Early in her writing life she worked with Free Peoples' Artist and Writer's Workshop. Her work as an editor includes AD HOC MONADNOCK ~ a literary anthology. Her teaching of creative writing has been offered thru The Worcester Art Museum (& Clark University), New Hampshire Institute of Art, New Hampshire Writer's and Publisher's Project and numerous cultural and civic organizations. She has published her poems in many literary magazines, has twice been a Neruda Prize finalist, and twice a Pushcart Prize nominee. The manuscript of her first book of poems, NO ACHE BUT LOVE, remains in manuscript. She takes the natural world and human nature as her supreme inspirations and aspires to write something true, something useful, something beautiful. She admits to impatience and ambition, vows to keep writing poems whatever comes. She lives in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies with her beloved husband of twenty-five years, David Tracey, with thanks for his faithful support and love.

Susan earned an MA in Education in 1989 from Anna Maria College in Paxton, MA and an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College in Swannanoah, NC where she studied with Eleanor Wilner, Robert Wrigley, Ira Sadof, Ed Hirsh and Ellen Bryant Voigt. She has attended The Frost Place on two occassions and was a resident at Dorset House in Vermont last year.  She has been giving poetry readings for many years, worked as a poet-in-the-schools and storyteller for ten years, arranges reading series for other poets and coordinates "Art is Fundamental", a program that brings writers and other artists to the Thomas Prince School. She has been an editor of The Worcester Review for ten years and has worked with students to publish their first books. This year she began a student literary magazine, The Morrigann.  Susan won first place in the Worcester County Poetry Association Contest when Mary Oliver judged. Her work has been published in Deros, Yankee Magazine, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Prarie Schooner, The Worcester Review, Potato Hill, Potpourri and other literary magazines.  Her manuscript Farmwife won the William and Kingman Poetry Book Award. It will be published in the spring of 2000 by Nightshade Press.

Patricia Fargnoli  was the Poet Laureate for the State of New Hampshire, 2006 - 2009.  She is the author of four books and two chapbooks of poetry. Her first book Necessary Light won the 1999 May Swenson Award judged by Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Mary Oliver. And her third, Duties of the Spirit. Tupelo Press, 2005, won the N.H. Jane Kenyon Literary Award for an Outstanding Book of Poetry. Her newest book is Then, Something, Tupelo Press, 2009.

A five-time Pushcart Nominee and Macdowell fellow, she holds an honorary BFA from The NH Institute of Arts and has  published over 200 individual poems in The Massachussetts Review, Ploughshares, North American Review, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, Cimarron Review et. al.  She teaches private tutorials and classes and lives in Walpole, NH.

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