Join us for "The State of the Prose Poem : A Discussion with Nin Andrews, Denise Duhamel, Peter Johnson, and Gary Young, moderated by Cassandra Atherton," Tuesday October 29 at 7:00pmET. This reading will be livestreamed via YouTube. To join, visit Lit Youngstown's YouTube Channel, and click on the "Live" tab.
Peter Johnson’s most recent books are: While the Undertaker Sleeps: Collected and New Prose Poems (2023) and Truths, Falsehoods, and a Wee Bit of Honesty: A Short Primer on the Prose Poem, with Selected Letters from Russell Edson (essays, 2020). You can find him at peterjohnsonauthor.com and johnsonp.substack.com
Nin Andrews is the author of sixteen poetry collections. Known as the queen of orgasms, her poetry has been translated into Turkish, performed in Prague and anthologized in England, Australia, and Mongolia. Her collection, Son or a Bird, a Memoir in Prose Poems is forthcoming in 2025 from Etruscan Press.
Cassandra Atherton is one of the leading international scholars on prose poetry and an award-winning prose poet. She co-authored Prose Poetry: An Introduction (Princeton University Press, 2020) and co-edited the Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry (Melbourne University Press, 2020) with Paul Hetherington. She wrote the introduction for Peter Johnson’s While the Undertaker Sleeps: Collected and New Prose Poems and co-edited Dreaming Awake: New Contemporary Prose Poetry (MadHat Press, 2023) with Peter Johnson. Cassandra is Professor of Writing and Literature in Melbourne, Australia.
Denise Duhamel’s most recent books of poetry are Pink Lady (Pitt Poetry Series, 2025), Second Story (2021) and Scald (2017). Blowout (2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami.
Gary Young’s most recent books are American Analects and Taken to Heart: 70 Poems from the Chinese. His many honors include the Shelley Memorial Award and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. He teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz.
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