Episode 21: Lee Ann Roripaugh

George Kalamaras is one of 15 writers featured in the new issue, #13, of Court Green. Kalamaras, the former Poet Laureate of Indiana (2014-2016), is the author of fifteen books of poetry, eight of which are full-length, including Kingdom of Throat-Stuck Luck, winner of the Elixir Press Poetry Prize (2011), and The Theory and Function of Mangoes, winner of the Four Way Books Intro Series (2000). He is Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he has taught since 1990.

Kevin Gallagher is the author of the poetry collection, Loom (MadHat Press, 2016). He edits spoKe, a Boston-based annual of poetry and poetics, and was a guest-editor for Jacket magazine from 2003-2010. He is a founder of the groundbreaking Boston-based poetry magazine compost, which ran from 1992-2003. He works as a Professor of Global Policy at Boston University’s Pardee School for Global Studies.

Jay Besemer’s most recent book of poetry is Chelate (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016). He is the author of many other poetic artifacts including Telephone (Brooklyn Arts Press), A New Territory Sought (Moria), Aster to Daylily (Damask Press), and Object with Man’s Face (Rain Taxi Ohm Editions). He is a contributor to the groundbreaking anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. He is a contributing editor with The Operating System, the co-editor of a special digital Yoko Ono tribute issue of Nerve Lantern, and founder of the Intermittent Series in Chicago, where he lives with his partner and a very helpful cat.

Nate Marshall is from the South Side of Chicago. He is the author of Wild Hundreds (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and an editor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (Haymarket Books, 2015). He is a founding member of The Dark Noise Collective, and he is the National Program Director of Louder Than A Bomb Youth Poetry Slam. A Cave Canem fellow, his work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Indiana Review, and The New Republic, among others.

Megan Kaminski is the author of two books of poetry, Deep City (Noemi Press, 2015) and Desiring Map (Coconut Books, 2012), and nine chapbooks. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Third Coast, and other journals. Before joining the faculty at the University of Kansas, she made her home in Los Angeles, Paris, and Portland, OR. She is an assistant professor in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at the University of Kansas and was the 2015-2016 Hall Center for the Humanities Creative Fellow. She also curates the Taproom Poetry Series in downtown Lawrence.

Sarah Carson’s newest book of poems, Buick City, was published in 2015 by Mayapple Press. She also is the author of the collection Poems in Which You Die (BatCat Press, 2014) and three chapbooks. Her poems and short stories have appeared in Cream City Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Diagram, Guernica, and The Nashville Review, among others.

David Trinidad's newest book of poems, Notes on a Past Life, was published in 2016 by BlazeVOX [books]. His other books include Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems (2011) and Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera (2013), both published by Turtle Point Press. He is also the editor of A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos (Nightboat Books, 2011). Trinidad lives in Chicago, where he is a Professor of Creative Writing/Poetry at Columbia College Chicago. (Photo by Alyssa Lynee.)

A British-Indian emigrant to the United States, Bhanu Kapil lives in Colorado, where she teaches writing at Naropa University and in the MFA low-residency program at Goddard College. She is the author of five full-length works of poetry/prose, including, most recently, Ban en Banlieue (Nightboat Books, 2015). She has been incubating "Ban" through performances, talks, and collaborations in the U.S., India, and the U.K.

Lauren Haldeman is the author of the poetry collection Calenday (Rescue Press, 2014). She works as the web developer, web designer, and editor for the Writing University website at the University of Iowa and the Iowa Review. She received her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and has been a finalist for the Walt Whitman award and the Colorado Prize for Poetry.

Geoffrey Gatza is an award-winning poet and editor whose most recent book of poetry is Apollo, published in 2014 by BlazeVOX [books].  His books of poetry include Secrets of My Prison House; Kenmore: Poem Unlimited; and House Cat Kung Fu: Strange Poems for Wild Children.  He is also the author of the yearly Thanksgiving Menu-Poem Series, a book length poetic tribute for prominent poets, now in its tenth year. His visual art poems have been displayed in gallery showings such as Occupy the Walls: A Poster Show (AC Gallery, New York); Occupy Wall Street N15 For Ernst Jandl—Minimal Poems with photography from the Fall of Liberty Square; and in Language to Cover a Wall: Visual Poetry Through Its Changing Media (UB Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY).  Gatza is the editor and publisher of the small press BlazeVOX, whose fundamental mission is to disseminate poetry, through print and digital media, both within academic spheres and to society at large.