The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry: Poems, Poets, Process
Eleanor Wilneris the author of seven books of poems, most recentlyTourist in HellandThe Girl with Bees in Her Hair;she has also published a verse translation of Euripides’sMedeaand a book on visionary imagination. Her awards include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Juniper Prize, Pushcart Prizes, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. A 40-year veteran of teaching, she has taught for over 20 years for the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.Maurice Manningis the author ofThe Gone and the Going AwayandThe Common Man ,which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010, as well asBucolics ,A Companion for Owls,andLawrence Booth’s Book of Visions. He has been a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and has held a Guggenheim Fellowship. Currently, Manning teaches at Transylvania University.