This week we welcome Jerry Williams as our guest blogger. Jerry is an associate professor at Marymount Manhattan College. His first collection of poems, Casino of the Sun, (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2003), was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His second collection Admission (Carnegie Mellon, 2010) is "as funny and tough and thrilling a collection of poems as I’ve read in some time" (Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly). Williams is the editor of It's Not You, It's Me (Overlook Press, 2010), an anthology of poems about breakup and divorce. He lives in the Bronx with his wife, Shelby Stokes.
In other news . . . For the next several months, Brian Clements, founding editor of Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poeticsand editor of An Introduction to the Prose Poem (Firewheel Editions, 2009) will introduce our Sunday poem selections. Brian teaches in the MFA in Creative and Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University and blogs at mirrormirror. His latest book, Jargon,(Quale Press) will appear in December.
Welcome, Jerry and Brian
-- sdh
