Check out this interview about poetry with all the 42 Miles Press poets. Carrie Oeding and Erica Bernheim, winners of the first two contests, have already been published by 42 Miles Press, and Bill Rasmovicz and Allan Peterson have forthcoming collections due out from 42 Miles Press in fall 2013 and fall 2014, respectively:
http://www.prickofthespindle.com/interviews/7.1/writer_round-up.htm
Thanks to Prick of the Spindle for this excellent interview!
Allan Peterson‘s fourth book, Fragile Acts, is the second title in the new McSweeney’s Poetry Series and a finalist for both the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award and the Oregon Book Award. His last book is As Much As from Salmon Press, 2011. Other books are All the Lavish in Common (2005 Juniper Prize), Anonymous Or (Defined Providence Prize 2001) and five chapbooks, notably Omnivore, winner of the 2009 Boom Prize from Bateau Press. His next book, Precarious, is forthcoming from 42 Miles Press in 2014. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and The State of Florida. Visit him online at www.allanpeterson.net.
Erica Bernheim was born in New Jersey and grew up in Ohio and Italy. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop and her PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Since 2008, she has been an Assistant Professor of English at Florida Southern College, where she teaches creative writing and directs the Honors Program. She is the author of The Mimic Sea (42 Miles Press, 2012) and the chapbook, Between the Room and the City (H_NGM_N B__KS, 2006). Her poems have appeared most recently in The Laurel Review, Columbia Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, and Saw Palm.
Carrie Oeding‘s book Our List of Solutions, which won the Lester M. Wolfson Prize, was published in 2011 by 42 Miles Press. Her work has appeared in such places as Best New Poets, Colorado Review, Third Coast, DIAGRAM, PBS News Hour’s ArtBeat and elsewhere. She is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Marshall University.
Bill Rasmovicz is the author of The World in Place of Itself (Alice James Books, 2007), a 2006 Kinereth Gensler Award winner, which also won the 2008 Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club. Publishers Weekly likened the poems to “the haunted generalities of Franz Wright and the hunted, bomb-damaged villages of Charles Simic,” in its review of the book. Rasmovicz is a graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts M.F.A. in Writing Program and the Temple University School of Pharmacy. His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including Third Coast, Hotel Amerika, Nimrod, Puerto del Sol, Gulf Coast and Mid-American Review.
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