Bruce Guernsey, a native New Englander, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Eastern Illinois University where he taught for twenty-five years. He was awarded seven faculty excellence-in-teaching awards, and in 1992-93 was selected as the State of Illinois Board of Governors’ “Professor of the Year,” the highest award in that state system. He has also taught at William and Mary, Johns Hopkins, and Virginia Wesleyan College where he was Poet in Residence for four years. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Atlantic, The American Scholar, and many of the quarterlies. His essays have found a home over the years in such journals as The Virginia Quarterly, War, Literature and the Arts, Dappled Things, and Chronicles. He is a former Editor of The Spoon River Poetry Review. Several of his poems have been featured in American Life in Poetry edited by former Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser. The recipient of Fellowships from the NEA, The MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf, and the Illinois Arts Council, Guernsey has been honored with two Fulbright Senior Lectureships in American Poetry to Portugal and Greece. He has also twice sailed around the world as a faculty member with Semester at Sea.

Busing to Byzantium: Selected Poems and Prose

Literature & Fiction

Guernsey, Bruce

Poetry

Pine Row Press

Riverbank is Hank Hudepohl's second collection of poetry with poems that reflect upon the universal themes of innocence and experience.

Riverbank: New and Selected Poems

Hudepohl, Hank

In Figure 1, Beth McDermott offers us an eclectic array of poems that evoke scenes of life and art with precision, brevity, and great intensity. The insights that accompany them feel honestly earned, and time and again, the surprise of exactness invites a new way of seeing. Brimming with intelligence, her recurring meditations and observations, both metaphysical and literal, sweep over these poems like "a white sea without a coastline." As the award-winning poet and essayist Marianne Boruch notes, "these elegant poems by Beth McDermott are curious creatures of mind and eye calmly unfolding in equal weight and austerity, cool as distance but excruciatingly close as if a microscope could think out loud. Taking on both the natural world (the ghost orchid, blackbirds, "a pin oak" falling before expressway excavators, etc.) and genius artifice (Vermeer, Stieglitz, Caravaggio, Degas…), this poet defies her own lament that "if only she questioned the face value of beauty." Because in fact McDermott again and again does that, her work not pretty, not out to please or endear, instead growing brave as science and patience are, and somehow post-apocalyptic. Figure 1 (a stunningly apt title for this collection!) unnerves by a measured, mysterious step-by-step chill. Which is to say, these poems never apologize or self-serve as they stop human time."\nBeth McDermott’s poetry appears in Pine Row, Tupelo Quarterly, Terrain.org, and Southern Humanities Review. Reviews and criticism about art and ecology appear in American Book Review, After the Art, Kenyon Review Online, and The Trumpeter. She’s an Assistant Professor of English at the University of St. Francis and recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award, an Illinois Speaks Micro-Grant, and first place in the Regional Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest. She is editor-in-chief at Cider Press Review and lives with her family in the southwest suburbs of Chicago.

Figure 1

McDermott, Beth

Poems by Marie Gauthier. "In Marie Gauthier's long-awaited first collection, we are greeted by lyric intimacies, wistful weather, stunning turns of phrase, and the deep comfort of domestic scenes. With its earthy autumnal edge, Leave No Wake offers a meditation on family, illness, and loss, and how the scale of celebrating subtle moments and life's "small economies" almost always shifts toward grief. Gauthier's deft hand sketches portraits of the rhythm inherent in rural landscapes, where "snow falls // in longhand" even among "a whole trove / of darkness and dreads-to-be," as the book's smooth movement through inspired waters reminds us that life's inevitable fade seems 'a Polaroid in reverse.'" Leave No Wake is the debut of a true talent. Jennifer Militello, Author of The Pact

Leave No Wake

Gauthier, Marie

The Map of Unseen Things

Warren, Brett

The Unraveling Script

Kennedy, Maggie

Tidal

Lee, Mary Dean

Afterimage

Weld, Kathryn

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