August 2000

Vol. IV No. VII

The International Digest of World Poetry Welcome to PoetryMagazine.com, Home to more than 1100 outstanding poets, a great many of them are well known in the world of poetry. There is a separate listing for Featured Poets, a complete listing of all published poets and an easy to use search page. Thank you one and all for making PoetryMagazine.com a great place for poets and readers to enjoy such fabulous poetry.

Featured Poet:
Michael Bugeja

Michael Bugeja

MILLENNIUM'S END, Michael Bugeja's latest poetry collection, was nominated this year for a Pulitzer Prize.

Bugeja has published hundreds of poems in literary magazines, including Harper's, POETRY, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, and The Formalist.

His writing has been anthologized in Contemporary Literary Criticism and Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry, among others. 

In addition to Millennium's End, he has published five other poetry books including Flight from Valhalla, ( Livingston Univ. Press); Platonic Love and After Oz, (Orchises Press); and The Visionary, (Taxus Press, England - reprinted by Orchises Press in 1995).

Currently he is a special assistant to the President of Ohio University and a professor at the prestigious E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, where he teaches ethics and magazine writing. 

Featured Poet:
Ellen McGrath Smith

Ellen McGrath Smith

Ellen McGrath Smith has received the HyperAge magazine Ascher Montandon Award and the Zone 3 Rainmaker Award, and has been a finalist in the Marianne Moore Prize, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, the Discovery/"The Nation" Prize and others.

Anthologies in which she appears include For a Living: The Poetry of Work (University of Illinois Press) and Living Inland (Bennington Press). 

She has presented scholarly papers on poetics and social values at the University of Maine/National Poetry Foundation conference and at the Rutgers Poetry and the Public Sphere conference.
Smith's article recovering the work of an American woman poet from the 50s as a "lost" precursor for Anne Sexton's Transformations is scheduled to appear in a forthcoming special issue of Sagetrieb devoted to North American Women Poets of the 1950s.

Special thanks to our Associate Editor Will Elliott,
and our Feature Editor Andrena Zawinski
from Mary Barnet, Senior Editor.

  
Featured Poets
Michael Bugeja
Ellen Smith
  Classic Poet
Robert Louis Stevenson
  Poets
Ginger Ail
Magdalena Alagna
Marcus Kwame Anderson
Ernest Barteldes
Elaine Blodgett
Janet I. Buck
Anita Byerly
Cam
Benjamin Clements
Craig Czury
Sara Edison
Kathy Egan
Rina Ferrarelli
Amanda Elizabeth Forbes
Gerrett Gastal
Thomas Downing
Christiane Grimal
  
Poets (cont.)
Robert A. Hanshew
Martin Hickel
Noah Hoffenberg
Larry Jaffe
Yehudith Kafri
Manan Karki
Miroslav Kirin
Janet Norman Knox
Jennifer Lagier
Kathleen Lynch
Daniel MacDonald
Charlotte Mair
Mayra J. Martin
Steve Masters
  Linda Moore
Douglas Poole
Nanette Rayman
Joy Reid   
Michael Schneider
Joseph Setchel
Melody Villaflores
Chris Wanten

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