Wordstock Festival 2011

Jennifer Richter’s book THRESHOLD has been a national best seller and was chosen by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey as winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition. It was also selected by Robert Pinsky as a 2011 Oregon Book Award Finalist. Richter’s work has appeared in Poetry, Poetry Northwest, The Missouri Review and A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-five Years of Women’s Poetry. She is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford...
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Matt Yurdana has worked at a variety of jobs, including raising salmon in Alaska, teaching writing to US soldiers in South Korea, and directing the MFA program in creative writing at Pacific University. Matt received his MFA in poetry from the University of Montana. His poems have appeared in a variety of journals, including: Alaska Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Massachusetts Review, The North American Review, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, and The Southern Review. Among...
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