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Faculty in Poetry Faculty publications available online from the University of Southern Maine Bookstore Please see the following Stonecoast faculty who also teach poetry:Alison Deming (bio under Creative Nonfiction)Richard Hoffman (bio under Creative Nonfiction)Debra Marquart (bio under Creative Nonfiction) David Mura (bio under Creative Nonfiction)Baron Wormser (bio under Creative Nonfiction)
Kazim Ali is the author of two books of poetry, The Far Mosque (Alice James, 2005) and The Fortieth Day (BOA, 2008), and a novel, Quinn’s Passage, named a Best Book of 2005 by Chronogram magazine. His writes regular essays for The American Poetry Review, and his work has appeared in anthologies including Best American Poetry 2007. A former member of the Cocoon Modern Dance Company, Kazim has read his poetry at venues around the country including The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s in New York City, Small Press Traffic in San Francisco, and at the Folger Library in Washington, DC. He is the co-founder and publisher of the small press Nightboat Books and is currently assistant professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College in Ohio. Jeanne Marie Beaumont's first book, Placebo Effects (W.W. Norton, 1997) was selected by William Matthews as a winner in the National Poetry Series. Her second, Curious Conduct, appeared from BOA Editions in 2004. With Claudia Carlson, she co-edited the anthology The Poets’ Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (Story Line, 2003). Her poem “Afraid So” was made into a short film by filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt and was screened at numerous film festivals in 2006, garnering several awards. From 1992 to 2000, she was co-editor of American Letters & Commentary. She has taught at Rutgers University and at The Frost Place, where she now serves as director for the Frost Place Seminar. She also teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York City.
Ted Deppe was born in Duluth, Minnesota, and presently lives in County Galway, Ireland. He is the author of four books of poetry: Children of the Air (Alice James Books, 1990), The Wanderer King (Alice James, 1996), Cape Clear: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Books, Ireland, 2002), and Orpheus on the Red Line (Tupelo Press 2009). His poetry has been published widely on both sides of the Atlantic, and his work has been recognized by a Pushcart Prize, two NEA grants, and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Commission and the Connecticut Council on the Arts. He has been writer in residence at the James Merrill in Stonington, CT, the Poets’ House in Donegal, Ireland, and Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Ted is the coordinator of Stonecoast's Stonecoast in Ireland program.
Annie Finch is the author or editor of fifteen books of poetry, translation, and criticism including Eve (1997), Calendars (2003), The Encyclopedia of Scotland (2004), The Complete Poems of Louise Labé (2004), The Body of Poetry (2005), and Among the Goddesses: An Epic (2009). Her music, art, and theater collaborations include the opera Marina (American Opera Projects, 2003). Annie's poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies, textbooks, and journals including Agni, Fulcrum, Kenyon Review, Hudson Review, Paris Review, Partisan Review, Poetry, and Yale Review. Her poetry has been featured for radio and TV audiences including Voice of America and Def Poetry Jam, and she has performed her poetry across the U.S. and in England, France, Greece, Ireland, and Spain. In 2009 she was awarded the Robert Fitzgerald Award. Educated at Yale (BA), The University of Houston (MFA), and Stanford (PhD), she is a Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine and Director of the Stonecoast MFA Program. Her website is at www.anniefinch.com. Charles Martin is the author of four books of poems, including Starting From Sleep: New & Selected Poems (Overlook/Sewanee Writers Series, 2002), What The Darkness Proposes (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) and Steal The Bacon (Hopkins, 1987). His verse translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses ( W.W. Norton, 2004) received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from The Academy of American Poets. He has also published a translation of the complete poems of Catullus (Johns Hopkins, 1990) and a critical study of Catullus (Yale University Press, Hermes Series, 1992). Charles' awards include the Bess Hokin Award for Poetry, a Pushcart Prize, fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the NEA, and the Award for Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is Cathedral Poet in Residence at The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City, and frequently teaches poetry workshops at the Sewanee Writers Conference, the West Chester Poetry Conference, the 92nd Street YMHA and at Syracuse University. He is a graduate of Fordham University, holds a PhD from SUNY at Buffalo, and is Professor at Queensborough Community College (CUNY). He lives in Manhattan and Syracuse with his wife, arts journalist Johanna Keller.
Timothy Seibles is the author of five books of poetry: Body Moves, Hurdy-Gurdy, Kerosene, Ten Miles an Hour, and Hammerlock. His work has been featured in Red Brick Review, New Letters, Dark Eros, Ploughshares, New England Review, The Artful Dodge and the anthology In Search of Color Everywhere, and he is the recipient of a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Born in Philadelphia, he earned a BA from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and an M.F.A. from Vermont College. He taught high school English for ten years and worked as Writing Coordinator of the Fine Arts Work Center. He has taught at Cave Canem and is Associate Professor of English at Old Dominion University.
Patricia Smith is the author of five books of poetry, including Blood Dazzler, chronicling the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, and Teahouse of the Almighty, a National Poetry Series selection, winner of the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award and About.com’s Best Poetry Book of 2006. She also authored the ground-breaking history Africans in America and the award-winning children’s book Janna and the Kings. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly and many other journals, and has been performed around the world, including Carnegie Hall, the Poets Stage in Stockholm, Rotterdam’s Poetry International, the Aran Islands International Poetry and Prose Festival, the Bahia Festival, the Schomburg Center and on tour in Germany, Austria and Holland. She is a Pushcart Prize winner, a Cave Canem faculty member and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, the most successful poet in the competition’s history. She is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine.
Baron Wormser's memoir The Road Washes Out in Spring (University of New England Press, 2006) has been widely reviewed. He is also the author of a book of short stories, The Poetry of Life (Cavankerry, 2007), and seven books of poetry: The White Words (Houghton Mifflin), Good Trembling (Houghton Mifflin), Atoms, Soul Music and Other Poems (Paris Review Editions),When (Sarabande Books), Mulroney and Others (Sarabande Books), Subject Matter (Sarabande Books), and Carthage (The Illuminated Sea Press). He is also the co-author of two books about teaching poetry: Teaching the Art of Poetry: The Moves (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) and A Surge of Language: Teaching Poetry Day by Day (Heinemann). Baron’s poems and nonfiction have appeared in a wide variety of journals including The Paris Review, The New Republic, Harper’s, and Poetry. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Baron is director of the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching and the Frost Place Seminar at the Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire.
Other faculty who teach Poetry include Alison Deming, Richard Hoffman, Debra Marquart, David Mura, and Baron Wormser (bios under Creative Nonfiction) Return to the Poetry Genre Page ^top
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Visiting Poets and Poetry Editors Poetry in a Multi-Genre Program: a Note from Annie Finch Alumni Profiles
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