Maureen Seaton's sixth book of poems, Cave of the Yellow Volkswagen, was released in Feb '09 from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her previous collections are Venus Examines Her Breast (Carnegie Mellon UP, 2004), winner of the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award; Little Ice Age (Invisible Cities Press, 2001), which was nominated for a National Book Award; Furious Cooking (University of Iowa Press, 1996), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award; Fear of Subways (Eighth Mountain, 1991), winner of the Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize; and The Sea among the Cupboards (New Rivers, 1992), winner of the Capricorn Award and the Society of Midland Authors Award. The recipient of an NEA fellowship, Illinois Arts Council grant, and two Pushcart Prizes, she is also the author of a memoir, Sex Talks to Girls, published by the University of Wisconsin.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Week 8: Guest Judge Maureen Seaton
Maureen Seaton's sixth book of poems, Cave of the Yellow Volkswagen, was released in Feb '09 from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her previous collections are Venus Examines Her Breast (Carnegie Mellon UP, 2004), winner of the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award; Little Ice Age (Invisible Cities Press, 2001), which was nominated for a National Book Award; Furious Cooking (University of Iowa Press, 1996), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award; Fear of Subways (Eighth Mountain, 1991), winner of the Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize; and The Sea among the Cupboards (New Rivers, 1992), winner of the Capricorn Award and the Society of Midland Authors Award. The recipient of an NEA fellowship, Illinois Arts Council grant, and two Pushcart Prizes, she is also the author of a memoir, Sex Talks to Girls, published by the University of Wisconsin.
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Have never read her work before. Just wanted to say "Wow".
these guest judges are poetry rock stars! kudos for pulling them all together!!!
She's one of my heroes! Love ya, Maureen!
Catching up with the past three weeks, Dustin.
I had the extreme pleasure of meeting/working alongside Maureen in June/July of 2004, at Indiana University's Writers' Conference. What a great Poetry Workshop leader she is!
It was exciting to have her visit and read at Collin Kelley's event( in late 2004 or early 2005) at his Reading Series at midtown's B & N Books...
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