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Laurel Blossom and
Gary Young
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Prize-winning poet Laurel Blossom’s
most recent book is Degrees of Latitude, a book-length narrative prose poem exploring the geography of a
woman’s life (Four Way Books, 2007). Earlier books include Wednesday: New and Selected Poems,
The Papers Said, What’s Wrong, and Any Minute, a chapbook, which was nominated for the Elliston Prize.
Her work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day
(Billy Collins, editor) and in national journals including Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Pequod,
The Paris Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Deadsnake Apotheosis, Many Mountains Moving, and Harper’s.
A number of her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Laurel serves on the
editorial board of Heliotrope: a journal of poetry.
Read an excerpt from Degrees of Latitude on the Four Way Books website. Check out Laurel Blossom’s blog and website. Read four poems
in Double Room on Web Del Sol.
Read Gary Young’s essay “The Books That Should Be Written”
on Joan Zimmerman’s Ariadne website (originally appeared in Quarry West 32, The Poet as Printer:
William Everson & the Fine Press Artists’ Book, Fall 1995.
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Gary Young is the winner of the
2009 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. His multi-faceted role as an artist
includes poet, book artist, teacher and editor. His New and Selected Poems is forthcoming from
White Pine Press in late 2010. His previous books include Hands, The Dream of a Moral Life,
Days, Braver Deeds, the winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize, No Other Life,
which won the William Carlos Williams Award, and Pleasure, available from Heyday Press.
His poems have appeared in publications such as The American Poetry Review and The Kenyon Review.
He is the editor of the Greenhouse Review Press, teaches poetry at the University of California
at Santa Cruz and teaches poetry and book arts at Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School.
