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John Menaghan has published two books, both with Salmon Poetry (Ireland): All the Money in the World (1999) and She Alone (2006).  The Hudson Review calls She Alone (2006) “one of the best books of 2006.”

Menaghan is the winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize and other awards, and has published poems and articles in Irish, American, and Canadian journals.  He has given readings in London, Paris, Debrecen (Hungary), around Ireland, and across the U.S. from New York to Honolulu.  He teaches literature and creative writing at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he also serves as Director of both the Irish Studies & Summer in Ireland programs and runs the annual LMU Irish Cultural Festival.  He is currently working on two full-length plays, one set in Berkeley, California, the other in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and a sequence of short plays on the theme of leaving and being left behind.  His third volume of poetry is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in Fall 2009.

Read the review by David Mason in The Hudson Review or just read the section on John Menaghan’s book She Alone.

Read about She Alone on the Salmon Poetry website.

Read a poem by John Menaghan.
 

Dane Cervine lives with his wife and two children in Santa Cruz, where he serves as Chief of Children’s Mental Health for the county and as a consultant and trainer across the state.  Over 100 of Dane’s poems have appeared in a wide variety of journals and magazines, including The Hudson Review, The Sun and Sycamore Review.  His poem “The Jeweled Net of Indra” is the winner of the 2005 National Writers Union Poetry Competition judged by Adrienne Rich.  He has two collections of poetry published: What a Father Dreams: Poems of Family, Love and Aging (2005), and The Jeweled Net of Indra (Plain View Press, 2007).

Visit Dane Cervine’s website.

Read Dane Cervine’ prize-winning poem “The Jeweled Net of Indra.”

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