This week we welcome Erin Belieu as our guest author. Erin is the author of four poetry collections published by Copper Canyon Press, including Infanta, One Above & One Below, Black Box, and the forthcoming Slant Six, due in early November. She has been selected for the National Poetry Series, Bread Loaf and Sewanee conference fellowships, the Rona Jaffe Foundation award, the Ohioana Book Award, and the Midlands Author Award, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her work has appeared in places such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Slate, Tin House, Willow Springs, The Rumpus, and The Best American Poetry (2000, 2011, 2014). Belieu is a professor in the writing program at Florida State University and the low-residency MFA program at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachussetts. She is also the co-founder and director of the organization VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is artistic director for the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference. Belieu lives in Tallahassee, Florida.
Welcome, Erin.
In other news . . .
The Best American Poetry 2014 launch reading: September 18 at 7:00 pm at the New School (66 W. 12th Street, NY NY). Join David Lehman and contributors to the 2014 volume of the Best American Poetry for the annual launch reading. Participants include Lucie Brock-Broido, Mark Doty, Joel Dias-Porter, Natalie Diaz, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Cornelius Eady, Ross Gay, Le Hinton, Major Jackson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Hailey Leithauser, Frannie Lindsay, Cate Marvin, Shara McCallum, Valzhyna Mort, Eileen Myles, D. Nurkse, Sharon Olds, Greg Pardlo, Roger Reeves, Patrick Rosal, Jon Sands, Jane Springer, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Rachel Zucker. Free. Details here.
— sdh