Winner of 2009 Cleveland State University First Book Prize, selected by D.A. Powell

Clamor
Elyse Fenton is the winner of the 2008 Pablo Neruda Award from Nimrod International Literary Journal, and has published poetry and nonfiction in The New York Times, Best New Poets, The Iowa Review, Bat City Review, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from the University of Oregon and divides her time unevenly between Portland, Oregon, and Austin, Texas.

 

 

Winner of 2009 Cleveland State University Open Competition

You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
John Bradley is the author of Love-In-Idleness: The Poetry of Roberto Zingarello (Word Works), Terrestrial Music (Curbstone), and War on Words (BlazeVOX).  He edited Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age (Coffee House), Learning to Glow: A Nuclear Reader (University of Arizona Press), and Eating the Pure Light: Homage to Thomas McGrath (Backwaters Press).  He teaches at Northern Illinois University and lives in DeKalb, Illinois, with his wife, Jana, and their cats, Kiki and Zuzu.

 

 

Rust or Go Missing by Lily Brown	Say So by Dora Malech	Mule by Shane McCrae

Other Forthcoming and Recently Published Titles from Cleveland State University Poetry Center

Destruction Myth, poems by Mathias Svalina (forthcoming, Fall 2009)
Sum of Every Lost Ship, poems by Allison Titus (forthcoming, Fall 2009)
Brazil, a novella by Jesse Lee Kercheval (forthcoming, Fall 2009)
Snaketown, a novella by Kathleen Wakefield (forthcoming, Fall 2009)
Horse Dance Underwater, poems by Helena Mesa (published Spring 2009)
Trust, poems by Liz Waldner (published Spring 2009)
Self-Portrait with Crayon, poems by Allison Benis White (published Spring 2009)