W.H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York, England, in 1907. He moved to Birmingham during childhood and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. As a young man he was influenced by the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost, as well as William Blake, Emily Dickinson,Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Old English verse. In 1928, his collection Poems was privately printed, but it wasn't until 1930, when another collection titled Poems was published, that Auden was established as the leading voice of a new generation. Ever since, he has been admired for his unsurpassed technical virtuosity and an ability to write poems in nearly every imaginable verse form.
Louis Glück
Louise Glück was born in New York City in 1943 and grew up on Long Island. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. Her first book of poetry, Firstborn (1968), was recognized for its technical control as well as its collection of disaffected, isolated narratives. Helen Vendler commented on Glück’s use of story in her New Republic review of The House on Marshland (1975).
Louise Glück is considered by many to be one of America’s most talented contemporary poets. The poet Robert Hasshas called her “one of the purest and most accomplished lyric poets now writing,” and her poetry is noted for its technical precision, sensitivity and insight into loneliness, family relationships, divorce, and death.
Rachel Hadas
Hadas earned an undergraduate degree in classics at Harvard University, an MA in poetry at Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in comparative literature at Princeton University. Rachel Hadas has published numerous collections of poetry, essays, and translations.
She spent several years in Greece before graduate school, and that period echoes in her lyric poetry, which includes references to classic Greek literature even as its imagery is grounded in the details of the domestic. Throughout her career Hadas has produced acclaimed translations of writers as diverse as Tibillus, Baudelaire, and the Greek poet Konstantine Karyotakis. Her poetry has been included in Best American Poetry (1996), and her volume Halfway Down the Hall: New & Selected Poems (1998) was a finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
Charles Jensen
He was born in Eagle, Wisconsin and received a Bachelor's degree in film studies and cultural studies & comparative literature from the University of Minnesota. In 2004, he received an MFA degree in creative writing from Arizona State University, where he served as a poetry editor for Hayden's Ferry Review. He received the inaugural Red Mountain Review Chapbook Prize, selected by Joel Brouwer, for his collection Little Burning Edens and the 2006 Frank O'Hara Chapbook Award for Living Things, an elegy sequence. He was a published finalist for the 2007 DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press Chapbook Award for his mixed genre story The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon.His first full-length book of poems, The First Risk, was published by Lethe Press in 2009. It was a finalist for the 2010 Lambda Literary Award. He received an artist's project grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. For several years, he worked at the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University, where he served as the director of their annual Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference. Following that, he moved to the Washington, DC metro area and served as the Director of The Writer's Center,[2] one of the nation's largest independent literary centers, from 2008-2010. He now serves as the poetry editor for Lethe Press.
Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York, England, in 1907. He moved to Birmingham during childhood and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. As a young man he was influenced by the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost, as well as William Blake, Emily Dickinson,Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Old English verse. In 1928, his collection Poems was privately printed, but it wasn't until 1930, when another collection titled Poems was published, that Auden was established as the leading voice of a new generation. Ever since, he has been admired for his unsurpassed technical virtuosity and an ability to write poems in nearly every imaginable verse form.
Louis Glück
Louise Glück was born in New York City in 1943 and grew up on Long Island. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. Her first book of poetry, Firstborn (1968), was recognized for its technical control as well as its collection of disaffected, isolated narratives. Helen Vendler commented on Glück’s use of story in her New Republic review of The House on Marshland (1975).
Louise Glück is considered by many to be one of America’s most talented contemporary poets. The poet Robert Hasshas called her “one of the purest and most accomplished lyric poets now writing,” and her poetry is noted for its technical precision, sensitivity and insight into loneliness, family relationships, divorce, and death.
Rachel Hadas
Hadas earned an undergraduate degree in classics at Harvard University, an MA in poetry at Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in comparative literature at Princeton University. Rachel Hadas has published numerous collections of poetry, essays, and translations.
She spent several years in Greece before graduate school, and that period echoes in her lyric poetry, which includes references to classic Greek literature even as its imagery is grounded in the details of the domestic. Throughout her career Hadas has produced acclaimed translations of writers as diverse as Tibillus, Baudelaire, and the Greek poet Konstantine Karyotakis. Her poetry has been included in Best American Poetry (1996), and her volume Halfway Down the Hall: New & Selected Poems (1998) was a finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
Charles Jensen
He was born in Eagle, Wisconsin and received a Bachelor's degree in film studies and cultural studies & comparative literature from the University of Minnesota. In 2004, he received an MFA degree in creative writing from Arizona State University, where he served as a poetry editor for Hayden's Ferry Review. He received the inaugural Red Mountain Review Chapbook Prize, selected by Joel Brouwer, for his collection Little Burning Edens and the 2006 Frank O'Hara Chapbook Award for Living Things, an elegy sequence. He was a published finalist for the 2007 DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press Chapbook Award for his mixed genre story The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon.His first full-length book of poems, The First Risk, was published by Lethe Press in 2009. It was a finalist for the 2010 Lambda Literary Award. He received an artist's project grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. For several years, he worked at the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University, where he served as the director of their annual Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference. Following that, he moved to the Washington, DC metro area and served as the Director of The Writer's Center,[2] one of the nation's largest independent literary centers, from 2008-2010. He now serves as the poetry editor for Lethe Press.