Author: Scott LaClaire

“Always Act Well the Part That Is Given You”

By Sharon Dolin
From the Summer 2013 Issue
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Sharon Dolin is the author of five books of poems, most recently (from the University of Pittsburgh Press) Whirlwind (2012) and Burn and Dodge (2008)—the latter a winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Awarded the 2013 Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, Dolin teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y and directs the Center for Book Arts Annual Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Competition.

Music from Small Towns

By Al Maginnes
From the Summer 2013 Issue
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Al Maginnes’ most recent poetry collection, Inventing Constellations, was published in October 2012 by Cherry Grove Collections and is reviewed in this issue (see page 366). New poems appear or are forthcoming in American Literary Review, Southern Humanities Review, Sugar House Review, Border Crossings, Crab Creek Review, and several others. Maginnes lives in Raleigh, NC, and teaches at Wake Technical Community College.

Blight

By David Griffith
From the Summer 2013 Issue
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David Griffith has published short fiction in the Gettysburg Review, the New England Review, and STORY. He is a senior scientist and professor of anthropology at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.

The Circus Train

By Judith Kitchen
From the Summer 2013 Issue
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Judith Kitchen passed away on 6 November 2014, just days after completing work on the essay-review in Spring 2015 Georgia Review. The contributor’s note she supplied read as follows: “Judith Kitchen has three new forthcoming essays—in the Harvard Review, Great River Review, and River Teeth. Her most recent book, The Circus Train, was the lead publication in a new venture—Ovenbird Books, at ovenbirdbooks.org.” To that we respectfully add this brief overview of her writing and teaching career: Kitchen began as a poet, publishing the volume Perennials as the winner of the 1985 Anhinga Press Poetry Prize. She then shifted to prose writing of several sorts, with emphases on essays and reviews. Her four essay volumes are Only the Dance: Essays on Time and Memory (University of South Carolina Press, 1994); Distance and Direction (Graywolf Press, 2002); Half in Shade: Family, Photographs, and Fate (Coffee House Press, 2012); and The Circus Train (Ovenbird Books, 2013)—which appeared first, almost in its entirety, in the Summer 2013 issue of The Georgia Review. In 1998 Kitchen published a critical study, Writing the World: Understanding William Stafford (University of Oregon Press), and in 2002 a novel, The House on Eccles Road (Graywolf Press). She also conceived and edited three important collections of brief nonfiction pieces, all published by W. W. Norton: In Short (1996), In Brief (1999), and Short Takes (2005)—the first two coedited by Mary Paumier Jones. Kitchen also founded State Street Press in the early 1980s, bringing out over the next twenty years seventy-six poetry chapbooks, two pamphlets, five full-length poetry volumes, two collections of translations, and a poetry anthology—the State Street Reader. After teaching for many years at SUNY-Brockport—not all that far from her birthplace of Painted Post, NY—Judith retired and moved with her husband Stan Sanvel Rubin to Port Townsend, WA, from which they founded and co-directed for a decade the Rainier Writing Workshop low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. The collection What Persists
Selected Essays on Poetry from The Georgia Review, 1988–2014 was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2015.

on Phantom Camera by Jaswinder Bolina

By Anya Groner
From the Fall 2013 Issue
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Anya Groner’s essays, poems, and short stories have appeared in journals including the Oxford American, Ninth Letter, the Rumpus, Carolina Quarterly, and Juked. Groner received her MFA in fiction from the University of Mississippi, where she was a John and Renee Grisham fellow. Currently, she teaches writing at Loyola University in New Orleans and is at work on a novel.

“You are me. Or, more precisely, we are it.” (on A God in the House: Poets Talk about Faith, edited by Katherine Towler and Ilya Kaminsky; & Who’s Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners, edited by Jim Elledge and David Groff)

By Abigail Minor
From the Fall 2013 Issue
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Abigail Minor has studied at Smith College, the Penland School for Crafts, and the Pennsylvania State University, where she currently holds a postdoctoral teaching fellowship. She lives in Millheim, Pennsylvania.

Still the Talk of the Town: Literary Work and the New Yorker (on Janet Carey Eldred’s Literate Zeal: Gender and the Making of a New Yorker Ethos; & Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence, edited by Joelle Biele)

By C. J. Bartunek
From the Fall 2013 Issue
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C. J. Bartunek received her PhD in English from the University of Georgia and her BA from the University of Southern California. Her writing has appeared in The Smart Set, Pacific Standard, The Big Roundtable, and elsewhere. 

Register, Resonate, Ring (on Bruce Beasley’s Theophobia; Annette Spaulding-Convy’s In Broken Latin; Bill Neumire’s Estrus; and Stanley Plumly’s Orphan Hours)

By Judith Kitchen
From the Fall 2013 Issue
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Judith Kitchen passed away on 6 November 2014, just days after completing work on the essay-review in Spring 2015 Georgia Review. The contributor’s note she supplied read as follows: “Judith Kitchen has three new forthcoming essays—in the Harvard Review, Great River Review, and River Teeth. Her most recent book, The Circus Train, was the lead publication in a new venture—Ovenbird Books, at ovenbirdbooks.org.” To that we respectfully add this brief overview of her writing and teaching career: Kitchen began as a poet, publishing the volume Perennials as the winner of the 1985 Anhinga Press Poetry Prize. She then shifted to prose writing of several sorts, with emphases on essays and reviews. Her four essay volumes are Only the Dance: Essays on Time and Memory (University of South Carolina Press, 1994); Distance and Direction (Graywolf Press, 2002); Half in Shade: Family, Photographs, and Fate (Coffee House Press, 2012); and The Circus Train (Ovenbird Books, 2013)—which appeared first, almost in its entirety, in the Summer 2013 issue of The Georgia Review. In 1998 Kitchen published a critical study, Writing the World: Understanding William Stafford (University of Oregon Press), and in 2002 a novel, The House on Eccles Road (Graywolf Press). She also conceived and edited three important collections of brief nonfiction pieces, all published by W. W. Norton: In Short (1996), In Brief (1999), and Short Takes (2005)—the first two coedited by Mary Paumier Jones. Kitchen also founded State Street Press in the early 1980s, bringing out over the next twenty years seventy-six poetry chapbooks, two pamphlets, five full-length poetry volumes, two collections of translations, and a poetry anthology—the State Street Reader. After teaching for many years at SUNY-Brockport—not all that far from her birthplace of Painted Post, NY—Judith retired and moved with her husband Stan Sanvel Rubin to Port Townsend, WA, from which they founded and co-directed for a decade the Rainier Writing Workshop low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. The collection What Persists
Selected Essays on Poetry from The Georgia Review, 1988–2014 was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2015.

Archaeology

By Stephen Dunn
From the Fall 2013 Issue
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Stephen Dunn is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose. His Degrees of Fidelity: Essays on Poetry and the Latitudes of the Personal,  is due out from Tiger Bark Press in October 2018, and a new collection of poems, Pagan Virtues, is scheduled to be published by W. W. Norton in 2019. He has been the recipient of many awards, including the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Different Hours, and he has had fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations. Dunn lives in Frostburg, Maryland, with his wife, the writer Barbara Hurd.