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Brian Turner and
Maggie Paul
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Read two poems
by Brian Turner on the Alice James Books website, including the poem “Here, Bullet.”
Listen to Brian Turner read “Here, Bullet”
on the Blue Flower Arts website.
Read an interview
with Brian Turner on the Alice James Books website.
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Read five poems by
Maggie Paul on the Hummingbird Press website.
Read poems and a short essay by
Maggie Paul on her website.
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Brian Turner earned an MFA
from the University of Oregon and lived abroad in South Korea for a year before serving for seven years
in the US Army. He was an infantry team leader for a year in Iraq beginning November 2003, with the 3rd
Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. Prior to that, he was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina
in 1999-2000 with the 10th Mountain Division. His poetry has been appeared on Poetry Daily, and been published in The Georgia
Review and other journals, and in the Voices in Wartime Anthology published in conjunction with the
feature-length documentary film of the same name. His first collection of poems, Here, Bullet (Alice
James Books, 2005) won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award, the 2006 Maine Literary Award in Poetry, the
Northern California Book Award in Poetry, the Sheila Margaret Motten Award from the New England Poetry Club,
the Pen Center USA “Best in the West” award, the Lannan Literary Fellowship, the 2007 Poets Prize,
the 2008 Charity Randall Citation and a New York Times “Editor’s Choice” selection.
Maggie Paul holds an M.A. in Literature from
Tufts University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Vermont College. She teaches Writing and
Social Justice at California State University, Monterey Bay and at the University of California in Santa Cruz.
Her work has appeared in Poetry Miscellany, Smartish Pace, the Sarasota Review, Rattle, and other journals.
Maggie is a co-founder of Poetry Santa Cruz. Her chapbook, Stones from the Baskets of Others, was published
by Black Dirt Press in 2002. Hummingbird Press will publish her first full-length collection of poems in spring, 2009.