Join us for an evening with Mary B. Moore, Susan O’Dell Underwood, and Margaret Mackinnon sharing their latest works of poetry and prose.
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Mary B. Moore’s five poetry books include the full-length collections Dear If (Orison Books, 2022); Flicker (Dogfish Head Award), and The Book Of Snow (Cleveland State University Poetry Center); and the chapbooks Amanda and the Man Soul (Emrys Prize, 2017) and Eating the Light (Sable Books Contest 2016). Her poems have won awards from NELLE, Terrain, Asheville Poetry Review and Nimrod and have appeared lately in Calyx, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Gettysburg Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, The Nasty Women Poets Anthology, and Fire & Rain, Eco-Poetry of California. She also wrote a critical study of women sonneteers and Petrarch, Desiring Voices, Women Sonneteers and Petrarchism, SIU Press, 2000. A native Californian, she lives in Huntington WV with a philosopher and a cat.
Susan O’dell Underwood grew up on small family farms in Sullivan County, Tennessee, and McDowell County, North Carolina. She is a Professor of English and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Carson-Newman University, where she has been teaching since 1990. She earned my MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her PhD in English from Florida State University. She is the author of the poetry collection THE BOOK OF AWE (Iris Press, 2018) and two chapbooks of poetry; FROM (2010) and LOVE AND OTHER HUNGERS (2014). In 2004 she won the Tennessee Arts Commission Literary Grant for GENESIS ROAD which was revised and published by Madville Publishing in 2022. Her second full-length poetry collection, SPLINTER, is due from Madville Publishing in late spring of 2023.
Margaret Mackinnon’s work has appeared in many journals, including Poetry, Image, and Blackbird. Her first book, The Invented Child, won the Gerald Cable Book Award and the 2014 Literary Award in Poetry from the Library of Virginia. Naming the Natural World received the Sow’s Ear Poetry Review chapbook prize in 2018. Her new book, Afternoon in Cartago, was selected by Maggie Anderson as the 2021 winner of the Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize and was published in October, 2022 by Ashland Poetry Press. Margaret Mackinnon lives in Richmond, Virginia.
