Able Muse - Bios https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/20/20? Bios (biographies) en Matthew Buckley Smith https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/matthew-buckley-smith? <p>Matthew Buckley Smith is the author of <em>Midlife</em>, winner of the 2021 Richard Wilbur Award, and <em>Dirge for an Imaginary World</em>, winner of the 2011 Able Muse Book Award. His poems have been featured in <em>American Life in Poetry, Best American Poetry</em>, and <em>Poetry Daily</em>. He hosts the poetry podcast <em>SLEERICKETS</em> and lives in North Carolina with his wife and daughters.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/matthew-buckley-smith?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/matthew-buckley-smith?#comments Bios able muse able muse write prize author bio family husband love marriage matthew buckley smith poem poetry procreation v31 wife winner winter 2023/2024 write prize Tue, 05 Mar 2024 04:37:22 +0000 Alex Pepple 2165 at https://www.ablemuse.com Steven Withrow https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/steven-withrow? <p>Steven Withrow has authored four chapbooks—<em>Crackles of Speech, The Sun Ships, The Bedlam Philharmonic</em>, and <em>The Nothing Box</em>—and his poems for children and adults have appeared in numerous journals, anthologies, and textbooks worldwide. He studied writing, literature, and publishing at Roger Williams University and Emerson College. He recently wrote the libretto for a chamber opera based on a classic English ghost story. He lives on Cape Cod, where he has worked as a newspaper editor and a bookseller.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/steven-withrow?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/steven-withrow?#comments Bios 2023/2024 able muse able muse write prize author bio black locust destruction devastation hunger invasive species migration nature poem poetry seasons steven withrow v31 write prize Tue, 05 Mar 2024 04:12:48 +0000 Alex Pepple 2164 at https://www.ablemuse.com Peter Kline https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/peter-kline? <p>Peter Kline is the author of two poetry collections, <em>Mirrorforms</em> (Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions) and <em>Deviants</em> (SFASU Press). A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he has also received residency fellowships from the Hemingway House, Amy Clampitt House, and James Merrill House. His poems have appeared in <em>Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House</em>, and many other journals, as well as the <em>Best New Poets</em> series and <em>Verse Daily</em>, and have won prizes from the <em>Southwest Review, River Styx</em>, and the <em>Columbia Review</em>.<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/peter-kline?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/peter-kline?#comments Bios 2023/2024 able muse able muse write prize author bio commuting employment gambling housing las las vegas peter kline poem poetry san francisco travel v31 workers write prize Tue, 05 Mar 2024 04:00:37 +0000 Alex Pepple 2163 at https://www.ablemuse.com Stephen Kampa https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/stephen-kampa? <p>Stephen Kampa&rsquo;s most recent of four poetry collections is <em>World Too Loud to Hear</em> (Able Muse Press, 2023). His earlier collections are <em>Cracks in the Invisible</em> (2011), <em>Bachelor Pad</em> (2014), and <em>Articulate as Rain</em> (2018). His work has appeared in the <em>Yale Review, Cincinnati Review, Southwest Review, Hopkins Review, Poetry Northwest, Subtropics</em>, and <em>Smartish Pace</em>. He was also included in <em>Best American Poetry 2018</em> and <em>Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America&rsquo;s Poets Respond to the Pandemic</em> (2020).<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/stephen-kampa?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/stephen-kampa?#comments Bios able muse author bio interview ned balbo poems poetry stephen kampa v31 winter 2023/2024 Mon, 04 Mar 2024 06:50:41 +0000 Alex Pepple 2130 at https://www.ablemuse.com E. Hume Covey https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/e-hume-covey? <p>E. Hume Covey grew up in Virginia, France, Germany, and Italy and has a PhD from the University of Arizona. He has worked as a professor of philosophy and as a manager, writer, and editor in the educational testing industry and has published articles in philosophical journals. He has recently published fiction in <em>Streetlight Magazine</em> and poems in <em>Bellevue Literary Review</em> and multiple issues of <em>Nonbinary Review</em> and <em>Deep South Magazine</em>.<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/e-hume-covey?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/e-hume-covey?#comments Bios able muse author bio countryside courting courtship e. hume covey love nature pastoral poem poetry poetry reading v31 winter 2023/2024 Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:56:40 +0000 Alex Pepple 2127 at https://www.ablemuse.com Forester McClatchey https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/forester-mcclatchey? <p>Forester McClatchey is a poet and critic from Atlanta, Georgia. He was a finalist for the 2023 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize and a runner-up in the 2023 Michael Waters Poetry Prize, and his work appears in the <em>Hopkins Review, 32 Poems, Birmingham Poetry Review, Five Points</em>, and <em>Gulf Coast</em>, among other journals. He teaches at Atlanta Classical Academy.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/forester-mcclatchey?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/forester-mcclatchey?#comments Bios able muse author bio cars crowds dates dating forester mcclatchey meetings overcrowding plowing poem poetry poetry reading populace transportation v31 winter 2023/2024 Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:48:39 +0000 Alex Pepple 2126 at https://www.ablemuse.com C. M. Hewitt https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/c-m-hewitt? <p>C.&nbsp;M. Hewitt&rsquo;s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the <em>Adroit Journal, Ecotone</em>, the <em>Southampton Review, 32 Poems</em>, and elsewhere. He currently teaches at Cornell University.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/c-m-hewitt?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/c-m-hewitt?#comments Bios able muse author bio c. m. hewitt city employment nine to five office tower ooffice poem poetry poetry reading urban v31 winter 2023/2024 Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:41:10 +0000 Alex Pepple 2125 at https://www.ablemuse.com Wendy Videlock https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/wendy-videlock? <p>Wendy Videlock is Poet Laureate of the Western Slope in Colorado, serving thirty-two counties across the region. Videlock is the author of six books (four through Able Muse Press, and one each from EXOT Books and Lithic Books). Her poems appear most notably in <em>Poetry, O Magazine, Hudson Review, Hopkins Review</em>, the <em>New York Times</em>, and <em>Rattle</em>. She is a winner of the Cantor Prize and the Fisher Prize, and the three-time winner of the Keats Soul Making Prize. Her syndicated column, &ldquo;The Barefoot Laureate,&rdquo; appears in Colorado newspapers.</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/wendy-videlock?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/wendy-videlock?#comments Bios able muse absence author bio contemplation nature poem poetry poetry reading presence rapture silence v31 wendy videlock winter 2023/2024 Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:30:38 +0000 Alex Pepple 2124 at https://www.ablemuse.com Christopher R. Vaughan https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/christopher-r-vaughan? <p>Christopher R. Vaughan&rsquo;s poems have appeared in numerous journals, including the <em>Cincinnati Review, Hawai&lsquo;i Pacific Review, Off the Coast</em>, and <em>Del Sol Review</em>. He was a winner of the 2020 Princemere Poetry Prize and has received support from the Community of Writers, Martha&rsquo;s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Indiana University Writers&rsquo; Conference, and Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference. He was a Fellow in the Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose in 2022–23. He lives in Minneapolis.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/christopher-r-vaughan?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/christopher-r-vaughan?#comments Bios able muse all night i prowl aisles at filene’s author bargain bargain hunter bio christopher r. vaughan clothes filene&#039;s poem poetry poetry reading shopaholic shopping v31 well-dressed winter winter 2023/2024 Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:23:04 +0000 Alex Pepple 2123 at https://www.ablemuse.com Malcolm Farley https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/malcolm-farley? <p>Malcolm Farley&rsquo;s poems have appeared in various journals including <em>AGNI</em>, the <em>New Republic</em>, the <em>Paris Review</em>, the <em>American Scholar, Commonweal</em>, the <em>American Journal of Nursing</em>, the <em>Harvard Review</em>, and the <em>Los Angeles Review</em>. His prose has appeared in the <em>New York Times Book Review</em>, the <em>Boston Review</em>, and <em>Psychoanalysis Today</em>.<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/malcolm-farley?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v31/bio/malcolm-farley?#comments Bios able muse author bio holier than thou hummingbirds hunter hunting malcolm farley nature poem poetry poetry reading praying mantis predator prey v31 winter 2023/2024 Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:13:49 +0000 Alex Pepple 2122 at https://www.ablemuse.com