Delaware Poetry Review names authors for new issue
JoAnn Balingit, Delaware Poet Laureate and guest editor of the Delaware Poetry Review, has selected 10 poets from the Mid-Atlantic Region for the fall 2012 issue. Each is represented by a generous selection of three to five poems.
Balingit writes, “I’m delighted to share poems by poets with ties to the Mid-Atlantic Region, poets who have enriched their communities with their work on and off the page. In choosing work for this issue of the Delaware Poetry Review, I looked for words ‘excited as wetted yeast’ - to borrow a line from Josiah Bancroft’s ‘Bath Time.’ I looked for riveting geographies - internal geographies of love, regret, disdain or meditative wonder; and physical geographies that take a reader from Mt. Kilimanjaro to the horse farms of the Eastern Shore to a coveted Sunday ride on Father’s bicycle crossbar. For all these poets, as Abby Millager says, ‘there are Worlds at stake.’”
The featured poets in Volume 4, Number 1 are:
• Josiah Bancroft, a teacher at Cecil College
• Liz Dolan, author of “They Abide”
• Russell Susumu Endo, a retired public interest lawyer
• Meredith Davies Hathaway, a vice president at Washington College and author of two books
• Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, former Poet Laureate of Virginia and author of five books
• Abby Millager, cofounder of Diner Journal and author of “Hairwork”
• Erin Murphy, associate professor at Penn State Altoona and author of five books
• Amanda Newell, winner of the Dogfish Head Poetry Prize
• Maggie Rowe, poetry instructor at The Cancer Support Community
• Leona Sevich, provost and faculty at Mount St. Mary’s University.
Poems range widely. In this issue, readers will find, among other wonders, the imaginings of Diogenes, a pre-operative dream state, a sonnet to a mosquito, couplets on yellowjackets, poems based on the woodcuts of Leonard Baskin and the murals of Diego Rivera, and a crossing guard who compares himself to Saint George.
The Delaware Poetry Review is available online at depoetry.com. Subscriptions are free.
