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Hank Lazer has published thirty-four books of poetry; his latest books are P I E C E S, When the Time Comes, and field recordings   of mind   in morning. In 2014, he retired from the University of Alabama after 37 years as a professor and an administrator. He continues to teach innovative seminars on Zen Buddhism and Radical Approaches to the Arts for the University’s Blount Scholars Program. In 2015, Lazer won The Harper Lee Award, Alabama’s highest literary award for lifetime achievement.
Links
Read "Duncan Farm November Meditation" and section 8 from The New Spirit
Hank Lazer's website
Recordings at PennSound
Interview on Bookmark with Don Noble
Eleven poems at Plume
Five poems at Interim
"'Furnishings in the House of the Voice': An Interview with Hank Lazer
by Lisa Russ Spaar"
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Jenny Sadre-Orafai is a poet and essayist and the author of Dear Outsiders and three other poetry collections. Her poetry has appeared in Puerto del Sol, Cream City Review, Ninth Letter, and The Cortland Review. Her prose has appeared in The Rumpus, Fourteen Hills, and The Los Angeles Review. She co-founded and co-edits Josephine Quarterly and teaches creative writing at Kennesaw State University.
Links:
Read "Occupation Interview," "Tragedy Lesson," and "Souvenirs for Locals"
Jenny Sadre-Orafai's website
Three Poems at $
"I Become More Animal When I'm Grieving: A Conversation with Jenny Sadre-Orafi" at The Rumpus
Video: "Hard Hat Reading: Jenny Sadre-Orafai" at Poets House
Video: "Jenny Sadre-Orafai reads at the SAFTA Reading Series"
"In Their Own Words: Jenny Sadre-Orafai on 'Queen of Cups'" at Poetry Society of America
Josephine Quarterly
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Anna Laure Reeve was born and raised in Knoxville, and she earned a Master of Arts in Literature & Poetry Writing from the University of Tennessee. Her poems have appeared in Terrain.org, Jet Fuel Review, Another Chicago Magazine, and many others. She recently won Beloit Poetry Journal’s Adrienne Rich Award, and she was a finalist for the Heartwood Poetry Prize and the Ron Rash Award in Poetry. Her book Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility was recently published by Belle Point Press. She is an assistant editor of Juke Joint, a literary magazine based in Jackson, Mississippi.   
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, most likely in April of 1564. When he was 18, he married Anne Hathaway with whom he had three children. Shakespeare made his living as an actor and playwright, and his works include 38 plays in addition to 154 sonnets and various other types of poetry. Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616.
Links:
Read an early version of "Tennessee Red Cobb" at Appalachia Bare
Read "Méniére's Disease" at The Racket
Read "Look at Everything" and "Children of Asylum Seekers" at The Racket
Read "That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73)" at Poets.org
Read "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (Sonnet 29)" at Poets.org
Anna Laura Reeve
Anna Laura Reeve's website
"Poets in Conversation: Anna Laura Reeve" at Beloit Poetry Journal
Two Poems from Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility by Anna Laura Reeve at ACM
"Motherhood Unshorn: A Review of Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility" at Literary Mama
William Shakespeare
Bio and poems at Poets.org
"Shakespeare's Life" at Folger Shakespeare Library's site
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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Pauletta Hansel is the author of nine collections of poetry, including her latest book Heartbreak Tree. Her work has been featured in Oxford American, Rattle, American Life in Poetry, and Poetry Daily, among others. Hansel was Cincinnati’s first Poet Laureate, and she was the 2022 Writer-in-Residence for The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. 
Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine in 1892. Along with her many books of poetry, Millay published plays, a libretto called The King’s Henchman, and she wrote short stories for popular fiction magazines under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in poetry.
Links:
Read "I Take My Mother with Me Everywhere" and "After"
Read "Postcard from Age 60" at Braided Way
Read "Recuerdo" at The Poetry Foundation
Pauletta Hansel
Pauletta Hansel's website
"The Road" at Poetry Daily
"The City" at Appalachian Review
"May 1, 2020" in The Oxford American
"Palindrome" at Still: The Journal
Video: "Meet our 2022 Writer-In-Residence" Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Bio and poems at The Poetry Foundation
Bio and poems at Poets.org
The Millay Society's Audio Archives
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Gary Metras is a retired high school English teacher and college writing instructor. His poems have appeared in America, The Common, Poetry, and many others. Metras has published eight books, including his latest called Vanishing Points. His book Marble Dust is forthcoming from Cervena Barva Press. Metras was the founder, editor, and letterpress printer of Adastra Press, a venture that for forty years specialized in limited editions of poetry chapbooks. In 2018, Metras was appointed the inaugural Poet Laureate of Easthampton, Massachusetts.  
Simon Perchik's poems have appeared in The Nation, Poetry, The New Yorker, and many others. He was born in 1923 in Paterson, New Jersey. During World War II, he joined the Army Air Corps, flew 35 missions overseas, and reached the rank of first lieutenant. Thanks to the GI Bill, Perchik attended New York University where he earned a bachelor’s degree and a law degree. He practiced law for 25 years before becoming an assistant DA for Suffolk County and its first environmental prosecutor. He was a prolific writer, and he published more than thirty books of poetry. A November 2000 issue of Library Journal called Simon Perchik “the most widely published unknown poet in America.” Perchik died on June 14, 2022, in New York City.
Links:
Read "The Engagement" and "Lint" at The Poetry Foundation
Read "Another Winter"
Read "3" and "482"
Gary Metras
"April 6, 2022" at One Art
"Two Poems by Gary Metras" at Flyfishing and Tying Journal
"Art Maker: Gary Metras, Poet" at Daily Hampshire Gazette
"In Studio: Gary Metras" by Easthampton Media (via YouTube)
Simon Perchik
"Simon Perchik, Poet" in The Easthampton Star
"Five Poems" at the Poetry Foundation
Poems at Poetry Northwest
Poems at Plume
"Two Untitled Poems" at The Inflectionist Review
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Sara Moore Wagner is the winner of the 2021 Cider Press Review Editors Prize for her book Swan Wife and the 2020 Driftwood Press Manuscript Prize for Hillbilly Madonna. She has published two chapbooks, Tumbling After (Red Bird Chapbooks) and Hooked Through (Five Oaks Press). She won the 2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, a 2019 Sustainable Arts Foundation award, and she was a 2021 National Poetry Series Finalist. Her work has appeared in Sixth Finch, Beloit Poetry Journal, Waxwing, The Cincinnati Review, Nimrod, Rhino, and others. Wagner's book Lady Wingshot, based on the life of Annie Oakley, won the Blue Lynx Prize and is forthcoming in 2024.
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) was born in 1886 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and she grew up in Upper Darby near Philadelphia. She attended Bryn Mawr and the University of Pennsylvania. H.D. published numerous books, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, essays, and translations. The publication of her collected and selected poetry helped to establish her as a major poet of the 20th century. H.D.’s work is revered by countless writers and critics, and she’s often thought of as a poet's poet and one of the key figures of the Imagist movement. She died in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1961.
Links:
Read "Purity Test"
Read "Captivity Narrative"
Read "Legend Says"
Read "Leda"
Sara Moore Wagner
Sara Moore Wagner's website
"Anti-Pastoral" at Sixth Finch
"Passing It On" at Waxwing
"Girl as a Deer Shedding the Velvet" at The Inflectionist Review
"Embracing the Half-Wild Creature: A Conversation with Sara Moore Wagner" at The Rumpus
"Sara Moore Wagner on 'Getting My Body Back'" at Poetry Society of America
H.D.
Bio and poems at The Poetry Foundation
Bio and poems at Poets.org
"H.D.: American Poet" in Britannica
"Radical Freedom: Poets on the Life and Work of H.D." Live from the IceHouse Tonight (YouTube)
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