Brian Brodeur, Guest Author August 4-8

Brodeur_headshotThis week we welcome Brian Brodeur as our guest author. Brian is the author of the poetry collections Natural Causes (Autumn House Press 2012) and Other Latitudes (University of Akron Press 2008), as well as the chapbooks Local Fauna (Kent State University Press 2015) and So the Night Cannot Go on Without Us (WECS Press 2007). New poems and interviews have been published or are forthcoming in AWP Writers Chronicle, Crab Orchard Review, Measure, 32 Poems, Shenandoah, and The Southern Review. Brian curates the blog “How a Poem Happens,” an online anthology of over 150 interviews with poets. A 2013 Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, he is currently a George Elliston Fellow in Poetry in the PhD in English and Comparative Literature program at University of Cincinnati where he serves as an Assistant Editor for Cincinnati Review.

Welcome, Brian.

In other news . . .

Thursday, August 7, 7:30 PM: An evening of French poetry and American port with David Lehman and Frédéric Bouché.  Details here.

— sdh