Michael D Snediker is a poet and a scholar of American literature, poetics, and disability theory. He is Associate Professor of American Literature & Poetics at the University of Houston, before which he was a Queens National Scholar and Associate Professor of American Literature at Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario. He is the author of Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment (University of Minnesota Press, 2021). His poetry has appeared in The Cortland Review, [1] [2] Blip Magazine , The Beloit Poetry Journal , Blackwarrior Review, Court Green, Crazyhorse, Jubilat, Margie, Pleiades. He has been nominated twice for the prestigious Pushcart Prize. His book of poems, The New York Editions, won the Poets Out Loud prize, and his earlier book of poems, The Apartment of Tragic Appliances, was a Lambda Finalist for Best Gay Poetry. His widely reviewed book Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions (University of Minnesota Press, 2008). [3] [4] [5] offers new readings of the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, and Jack Spicer. He received his Ph.D in English from Johns Hopkins University. He is the recipient of multiple residencies at Yaddo and the James Merrill House.
The New York Editions (Fordham University Press, 2017)
"The Apartment of Tragic Appliances" (Punctum, 2013)
Bourdon (White Rabbit Press, 2010).
Nervous Pastoral (Dove/tail Press, 2008).
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Thomas Swiss is an American poet and writer. He taught at Drake University and the University of Iowa before teaching at the American University of Paris and the University of Minnesota.
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Danielle Pafunda is an American writer and poet. She has taught for the University of Wyoming, University of California San Diego, and is 2018-19 Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of Maine. She also teaches for Mississippi University for Women's low-residency MFA. She often lives and works in the Mojave Desert.
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