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A Poetic Toolkit: Meaning and Mystery with Brenda Hillman
Brenda Hillman is the 2021 Kapnick Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Virginia. Hillman has authored ten full-length collections, the most recent of which is
Extra Hidden Life, among the Days (Wesleyan University Press, 2018). Her poems have also been collected in three chapbooks
The Firecage (A+Bend Press, 2000);
Autumn Sojourn (Em Press, 1995); and
By Millicent Borges Accardi
Raised in Los Banos, California, Portuguese-American writer Sam Pereira has published six books, most recently,
True North and Untrue You (Nine Mile 2020), a poetry collection which David St John (author of
The Last Troubadour: New and Selected Poems) states is “uniquely American. . . as if Lenny Bruce had written songs with Tom Waits.” Diniz Borges, director of the Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute at California State University, Fresno adds that Pereira’s latest book “engages, surprises and liberates.”
Besides the six collections of poetry, Pereira’s work has also appeared in several anthologies of contemporary American poetry, among them: