June 3, 2012

Wendy Drexler

Wendy Drexler is the author of Western Motel, her first book-length collection (Word Tech Communications, 2012) and the chapbook Drive-Ins, Gas Stations, the Bright Motels (Pudding House, 2007).  Her poems have or will appear in Barrow Street, Cider Press Review, Poetry East, Tar River Poetry, Off the Coast, among other journals and in the anthology Blood to Remember:  American Poets on the Holocaust.  Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Wendy is also the poetry editor for Sanctuary, the magazine of the Massachusetts Audubon Society.  Her website is wendydrexlerpoetry.com.

Daniel Johnson

Daniel Johnson’s first book of poetry, How to Catch a Falling Knife was published by Alice James Books (2010).  In conjunction with the book’s release, he has been performing an illuminated version of the text including live music and found home movies of William Bradley, a World War II-era Fuller Brush salesman from Davenport, Iowa.  By day, Daniel runs the Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute, which sponsors the youth writing center, 826 Boston.  His website is danielbjohnson.com.

Mary Ellen Redmond 

Mary Ellen Redmond earned an MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington Writing Seminars.  She was a regional finalist for the 2011 Cultural Center of Cape Cod’s poetry contest, as well as a 2010 finalist for the NCTE Poet of the Year Contest.  Her interview with poet Gregory Orr was recently published in The Drunken Boat.  Her poems have appeared in A Sense of Place, World of Water, World of Sand, 5am, RATTLE and The Drunken Boat.  Mary Ellen is in her 18th year teaching English on Cape Cod.