2024 Fall Slant

What poems did Paulette Guerin write?

Bookmarks and On Finding a Postcard from Paris.

what does bookmarks by Paulette Guerin discuss?

about using different items as bookmarks like an airline ticket

list 2 things on finding a postcard mentions?

hemingway & drinking bitter tea

What poem did Patricia L. Hamilton write?

Lazy river. It is about cancer

who was Patricia L. Hamilton?

An English teacher who lives in Jacksonville, Tennessee. The Distance to Nightfall was her debut novel.

What poem did Carolyn Martin write?

Improvisation. It is 5 stanzas.

What is Carolyn Martin’s montra?

“It is beautiful to do nothing and rest afterwards”

Where does Carolyn Martin live?

Clackamas, Oregon

What poems did Michael Salcman write?

Song of Two Rivers and Commonwealth Avenue 1969.

Who was Michael Salcman? 

Born in Pilsen Czechoslovakia. He was a child of the Holocaust and survivor of polio.

What was Michael Salcman’s job?

chairman of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland and president of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore.

what two rivers does Michael Salcman list?

Ota river and Rue de la Bûcherie

who was Truth Thomas?

Born in knoxville tn and raised in washington. Got masters from New England college. 

What is the award Truth Thomas got? 

He is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Howard County, Maryland.

Speak Water won what?

 the 2013 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry