Matthew J. Spireng’s book, Out of Body, won the 2004 Bluestem Poetry Award and was published in 2006 by Bluestem Press at Emporia State University. His chapbooks are: Young Farmer; Encounters; Inspiration Point, winner of the 2000 Bright Hill Press Poetry Chapbook Competition; and Just This. His book, What Focus Is, is forthcoming in 2011 … Continued
Margo Taft Stever’s collection of poetry, Frozen Spring (2002), was the winner of the Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry. Her chapbook, Reading the Night Sky (Introduction by Denise Levertov), won the 1996 Riverstone Poetry Chapbook Competition. She is the founder and current board member of The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center (www.writerscenter.org), and the … Continued
Deborah Schupack’s latest novel, Sylvan Street (Plume, May 2010), explores what happens when cold, hard cash moves in next door, amid friends and neighbors, husbands and wives. “Teeming with plot twists and social unrest, Schupack shows with poignant prose and commendable plotting the good, the bad, and the ugly that money brings out in people,” … Continued
(1908-2010) Writer. Jane Sherman was born in Beloit, Wisconsin, and died in Englewood, New Jersey. She was known as a dancer and a writer of American dance. She and her family moved to New York City when she was a child.
(1921-2009) Author. John Edwin Smith was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Arlington, Virginia.
(1923-2009) Author. Loren Singer was born in Buffalo, New York, and died in Valhalla, New York. He was the author of “The Parallax View.” He lived in Mamaroneck, New York. In the 1950s he began writing for the TV shows “Westinghouse Playhouse,” “Kraft Television Theater” and “Studio One” in New York City.
(1922-2009) Author. Ihor Sevcenko was born in Radosc, Poland, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He taught at Columbia University in Manhattan, New York. He was a scholar of Byzantine and Slavic history and literature.
(1919-2010) Writer. J. D. Salinger was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Cornish, New Hampshire.
(1931-1996) Poet. George Starbuck was born in Columbus, Ohio, and died in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He taught briefly at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
(1833-1908) Poet. Edmund Clarence Stedman was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and died in New York City.