Welcome to the spring and the fire and the exact opposite of the cold, cold vacuum of space! Monsters of Poetry presents: Erika Meitner, Mark Levine, Emily Wilson, Josh Bell, and Emilia Phillips.
Monsters of Poetry April 2016
Erika Meitner is the author of six books of poems, including Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA Editions, 2018), winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry and the Library of Virginia Award in poetry; and Useful Junk (BOA Editions, 2022), a finalist for the 2023 Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award in poetry. Her poems have been published most recently in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Orion, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Electric Literature. She has received fellowships from the US-UK Fulbright Commission, MacDowell, the Hermitage Artist Retreat, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the Mandel Cultural Leadership Foundation. She is currently a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Mark Levine has published four books of poems, Debt (1993, a National Poetry Series winner); Enola Gay (2000) and The Wilds (2006), both from University of California Press; and Travels of Marco, recently published by Four Way Books. Levine is also the author of a book of nonfiction, and has had articles published in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Outside. He teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Emily Wilson is the author of The Keep (2001) and Micrographia (2008) from University of Iowa Press, and The Great Medieval Yellows (2015) from Canarium. She has received an NEA grant in poetry, and has taught at Colby College, University of Montana, Grinnell College and Iowa. She also runs Spurwink Press, which publishes poetry in small letterpress editions. Emily and Mark Levine co-edit the Kuhl House Poets book series at University of Iowa Press.
Josh Bell is the author of No Planets Strike and Alamo Theory. He's a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, has taught in the MFA program at Columbia University, and is currently Briggs Copeland Lecturer at Harvard University.
Emilia Phillips is the author of two poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, Groundspeed (2016) and Signaletics (2013), and three chapbooks. Her poems and lyric essays appear in Agni, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ninth Letter, Poetry, Ploughshares, StoryQuarterly, and elsewhere. She is the Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Centenary College of New Jersey.
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