James J. Siegel is the author of the poetry collection
The God of San Francisco published in 2020 by Sibling Rivalry Press. He is the host and curator of the monthly Literary Speakeasy show at Martuni’s piano bar in San Francisco. Originally from Toledo, Ohio, his first poetry collection,
How Ghosts Travel, was inspired and fueled by his coming of age in the Midwest and was a finalist for an Ohioana Book Award. He was a scholarship recipient to the Antioch Writers’ Workshop in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and his poems have been featured in a number of journals including
The Cortland Review,
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Megan Neville (she/her) is an educator and writer. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Academy of American Poets (Poets.org), Cherry Tree, Pleiades, wildness, Cream City Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Boiler, McSweeney s, Lunch Ticket, Gordon Square Review, and elsewhere. She is a poetry reader for Split Lip Magazine and was a finalist in Write Bloody s 2019 book contest. She lives in Tremont with her spouse and three cats. Find her online at megannevillepoetry.com.
TO THE WOMEN WHO SURROUNDED THE PENTAGON
Caitlyn Woitena
Thursday, February 11th, 2021
Assistant English professor Dr. Cheryl Hopson was recently a guest on the podcast “The Human Condition. Dr. Hopson describes the podcast as a “pleasant experience chock full of information and insight on life, grief, loss, and love. Throughout the podcast Dr. Hopson, “talks about [her] life as a Black queer feminist academic, a poet, professor, friend, and member of a particular family, both biological and national.
Dr. Hopson shares some of her own poetry during the podcast. She has two published books, Fragile and Black Notes, and poems published in The Toronto Quarterly, Indianapolis Review, Rise Up Review, Not Very Quiet, and Third Stone Journal. Being a poet herself, Dr. Hopson teaches a range of poetry courses here at WKU. In addition to poetry, Dr. Hopson teaches Introduction to the African American Experience.
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December 14, 2020
Dorothy Chan is a poet and assistant professor of English at UW-Eau Claire.
The Arts + Literature Laboratory kicks off the poetry year 2021 with an online reading by Dorothy Chan, Ernest O. Ãgúnyẹmà and Kirwyn Sutherland streamed live on its YouTube and Facebook pages. Chan is the author of
Revenge of the Asian Woman as well as
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold and the chapbook
Chinatown Sonnets. Sutherland has been published in
American Poetry Review and elsewhere and has a chapbook,
Jump Ship. Ãgúnyẹmà has also published widely and is the editor of