A Poetry Reading with Janine Certo and Kimberly Ann Priest
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Janine Certo is the author of three books: Elixir, winner of both the New American Poetry Prize and the Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize (New American Press and Bordighera Press, forthcoming 2021), In the Coner of the Living, runner-up for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award (2017), and a book of poetry scholarship, Children Writing Poems: Poetic Voices in and out of School (Routledge, 2018). A winner of Nimrod International Journal’s Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, her poems appear or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, The Greensboro Review, New Ohio Review, Poetry Northwest, Shenandoah, and others. She has also been a Featured Poet in the cultural and historical review, Italian Americana. A native of Pittsburgh, she is currently an associate professor of poetry and teacher education at Michigan State University.
Kimberly Ann Priest is the author of The Optimist Shelters in Place (Harbor Editions 2022), Slaughter the One Bird (Sundress 2021), Still Life (PANK, 2020), Parrot Flower (Glass, 2020) and White Goat Black Sheep (FLP, 2018). She is 2021-22 writer in residence at the Pittsburgh Proximity/Writer’s House, Assistant Professor of First Year Writing at Michigan State University, and serves as an associate poetry editor for the Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry. Winner of the 2019 Heartland Poetry Prize from New American Press, her work has appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, Salamander, Slipstream, The Berkeley Poetry Review, Lunch Ticket, and EcoTheo Review. Find her work at kimberlyannpriest.com.