Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova, was one of the most significant poets of 20th century. She was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in 1965 and received the second-most (three) nominations for the award the following year.
Galswintha (540–568) was a queen consort of Neustria. She was the daughter of Athanagild, Visigothic king of Hispania, and Goiswintha. Galswintha was the sister of Brunhilda, Queen of Austrasia; and the wife of Chilperic I, the Merovingian king of Neustria. Galswintha was likely murdered at the urging of Chilperic's former concubine Fredegund, instigating a 40-year civil war within the Merovingian kingdom.
Julia Randall was an American poet, professor, and environmental activist; recipient of many honors for her poetry, she published seven books of poetry culminating in The Path to Fairview: New and Selected Poems . Described as “one of America's purest and most original lyric poets”, her honors include the Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America (1980), the Poets’ Prize (1988) for her book Moving in Memory, as well as grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and the National Institute of Arts & Letters (1968), and a Sewanee Review Fellowship (1957).
Kimiko Hahn is an American poet and distinguished professor in the MFA program of Queens College, CUNY. Her works frequently deal with the reinvention of poetic forms and the intersecting of conflicting identities.
Ruth Stone was an award-winning American poet.
Forrest Hamer is an American poet, psychologist, and psychoanalyst. He is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Rift. His first collection, Call & Response, won the Beatrice Hawley Award, and his second, Middle Ear, received the Northern California Book Award. He has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the California Arts Council, and he has taught at the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshops.
Karen Snow is an American poet. Her work has appeared in the Beloit Poetry Journal, Chowder Review, Montserrat Review, Heartland, Michigan Quarterly Review, Lake Superior Review, ANON, Prairie Schooner, North American Review. Karen Snow is a pseudonym.
Sonia Raiziss Giop was an American poet, critic, and translator.
Lucia Maria Perillo was an American poet.
Linnea Johnson is an American poet, and feminist writer, winner of the inaugural Beatrice Hawley Award for The Chicago Home. Johnson was raised in Chicago, and lives and writes in Topeka, Kansas. She earned a B.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and an M.A. in writing and women's studies from Goddard College. She has hosted radio shows on WGLT-FM and on KRNU. Among her performance pieces are Swedish Christmas and a multi-media piece, Crazy Song. She studied papermaking at Carriage House Paper in Boston, and is founder and director of Red Stuga Studio and Espelunda 3 Productions, a Writing, Creativity, and Mentoring Consultancy also offering classes in creativity, poetry, prose, and play writing; Play, CD, and Staged Reading Productions. Her photographs can be found in Blatant Image, Nebraska Review, Prairie Schooner, Spoon River Poetry Journal.
Martha M. Zweig is an American poet. Her most recent book is Monkey Lightning.
Alice Fogel is an American poet, writer, and professor, who served as the state poet laureate of New Hampshire from 2014 to 2019.
Janet Holmes is an American poet and professor. She was the director of Ahsahta Press. She is the author of six poetry collections, most recently The ms of m y kin. Her poems were published in literary journals including American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Boulevard, Carolina Quarterly, Georgia Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, MiPoesias, Nimrod, Pleiades, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 1994 and The Best American Poetry 1995. Her honors include the Minnesota Book Award and fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. She earned her B.A. from Duke University and her M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College. She taught at Boise State University.
Katie Farris is an American poet, fiction writer, translator, academic and editor.
Rebecca Hazelton Stafford is an American poet and editor.
Greg Wrenn is an American writer from Jacksonville, Florida. He lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he is an associate professor of English at James Madison University. He was educated at Harvard University and Washington University in St. Louis. From 2010-2016 he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry and a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.
Lauren Camp is an Arab American poet. As New Mexico Poet Laureate, she has been honored with a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship.
Barrett Warner is an American short story writer, poet, essayist, critic, and editor. The author of Until I’m Blue in the Face (1990), My Friend Ken Harvey (2014), and Why Is It So Hard to Kill You? (2016), his work has appeared in numerous literary journals and zines. He is a recipient of the Salamander fiction prize, the Tucson Festival of Books essay prize, and the Liam Rector, Chris Toll Memorial Chapbook, Cloudbank, and Princemere poetry prizes. In 2016, in recognition of his Maryland farm essays, he received an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. He used the grant to finance his move to South Carolina. Since 1983, he has been a genre editor for several literary magazines including William and Mary Review,Blood Lotus, Whomanwarp, and Free State Review. He currently serves as general editor of Free State Review as well as acquisitions editor for its publisher, Galileo Books, Ltd. He is married to author and poet Julia Wendell.
Marion Kingston Stocking was an American literary scholar, educator, editor, book reviewer, advocate for the arts, memoirist, and environmentalist whose career spanned six decades. She was best known as editor of Beloit Poetry Journal and as a scholar of the Romantic period, specifically the circle of writers and thinkers associated with poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.
The Battle of Droizy, fought outside of Soissons, was an action in the ongoing rivalry between the two Merovingian queens, Brunhilda of Austrasia and Fredegund.
