This week we welcome Todd Boss as our guest blogger. Boss's best-selling
debut poetry collection, Yellowrocket
(Norton, 2008) has enjoyed widespread critical acclaim. His poems have
appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, New England Review, and Virginia
Quarterly Review, which awarded him the Emily Clark Balch Prize in 2009. His
work has been syndicated on public radio’s The
Splendid Table and Ted Kooser’s American
Life in Poetry. His MFA is from the University of Alaska-Anchorage. Read
(and hear) Todd’s poems at www.toddbosspoet.com. Welcome, Todd
Sharon Dolin (right, in Retiro Park, Madrid), continues to post periodically from the Fundación Valparaiso in Mojácar, Spain, where she is an artist-in-residence. Sharon's fourth book Burn and Dodge (Pitt Poetry Series) won the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. She is Writer-in-Residence at Eugene Lang College, The New School, teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, and directs The Center for Book Arts Annual Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Competition.
-- sdh
