Poetry and Drama

	Jimmy Santiago Baca, author of Healing Earthquakes, A Place to Stand and numerous works, was incarcerated in a maximum-security prison at age 21. Five years later he emerged not only literate, but a poet. Pushcart Prize winner, American Book Award winner, he's been called "the heir to Pablo Neruda." 3/22, 8 p.m.
Dan Bieker is a natural sciences instructor at Piedmont Virginia Community College and a self-employed homebuilder. Humor is a frequent theme in his poetry. 3/24, 1:30 p.m.
Katherine Borges resides in Charlottesville and is a member of Live Poets. She is author of her own collection of poems, My Bare Tree. 3/24, 3 p.m.
Joyce Broughton is from Cambridgeshire, England, UK. She was a teaching assistant at Hollymead School, Charlottesville for 11 years and Live Poets credits her with keeping the group organized. 3/24, 3 p.m.
Cheryl Bryan, poet, is a resident Fluvanna, Virginia. 3/24, 3 p.m.
	L. Teresa Church of Durham, North Carolina, has published in Southern Theater, Fertile Ground, NC Arts, and Sauti Mpya. In 1998 she earned an MLS and is employed as an archivist. 3/23, 2 p.m.
Anne Cressin writes snippets of verse, sometimes in haiku. Her poetry frequently concerns nature or human relationships. Cressin is from New Mexico. 3/24, 3 p.m.
	Stephen Cushman, author of Cussing Lesson, has published another volume of poems, Blue Pajamas, as well as three books of nonfiction, including a study of the Battle of the Wilderness entitled Bloody Promenade. He is a professor of English at UVa. 3/20, 6 p.m.
	Rita Dove, author of The Darker Face of the Earth, served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995. She has received the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the National Humanities Medal, and the Duke Ellington Lifetime Achievement Award in the Literary Arts. She lives in Charlottesville with her husband Fred Viebahn and daughter Aviva. 3/23, 4 p.m.
Terésa Dowell-Vest, Program Director of African American Heritage at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, holds an M.F.A. in Theatre Management from the California State University at Long Beach, and is a playwright / actor / director with credits in Los Angeles, New York and her hometown, Charlottesville. 3/23, 4 p.m.
Albert Goldbarth, author of Saving Lives, is Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Department of English at Wichita State University. He is the author of over twenty collections of poetry, including Troubled Lovers in History. 3/22, 4 p.m.
	Barbara Hamby's books, Delirium and The Alphabet of Desire, have won numerous awards including Vassar Miller Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, The Harvard Review and TriQuarterly. 3/22, 4 p.m.
Beverly Harner, poet, is a massage therapist and energy worker who lives with her pets. 3/24, 3 p.m.
Tom House is a Nashville-based poet and singer-songwriter who has received worldwide attention. He has recorded five CDs and composed four literary adaptations, two of which were produced by Opera Memphis, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Theater Lime Kiln and others. 3/23, 12 noon.
Susan Hull holds an MFA from the University of Virginia. She is a native of Madison County and teaches English at Western Albemarle High School. 3/24, 1:30 p.m.
Susan Imhof has published poems in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Seneca Review and Sundog: The Southeast Review, among others. She holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College and works as a medical editor. 3/24, 1:30 p.m.
	Paula White Jackson has published in Catch the Fire, Obsidian II, Bma Sonia Sanchez Literary Review, Women's World and in her collection Saturday Morning Pancakes. She writes for ECHO and is a staff writer for Fluvanna Review. 3/23, 2 p.m.; 3/24, 3 p.m.
	David Kirby, author of The House of Blue Light, is the W. Guy McKenzie Professor of English at Florida State University. His work has appeared in the Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize series, and his latest collection is entitled The Travelling Library. 3/22, 4 p.m.; 3/23, 12 noon.
Judy Longley has three books of poetry published. My Journey Toward You was winner of the Marianne Moore Prize. Her recent work has appeared in Poetry and Paris Review. 3/24, 1:30 p.m.
Charlotte Matthew's poetry has been published in The Mississippi Review, Meridian, and Blue Penny Quarterly, and her manuscript Green Stars was named finalist in the National Poetry Series. She teaches composition at Piedmont Virginia Community College. 3/24, 1:30 p.m.
Thorpe Moeckel, author of Odd Botany, lives in Crozet with his wife and his daughter. His poetry has appeared in Field, Wild Earth, The Antioch Review and other journals. Meltlines, a chapbook, was published by Van Doren & Co. of Charlottesville. 3/21, 4 p.m.
	Lenard D. Moore, born in Jacksonville, North Carolina, is the founder of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective. He is the author of Gathering at the Crossroads and Forever Home and teaches English and world literature at Shaw University. 3/23, 2 p.m.
	Ylonka Nacidit-Perdomo, born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, is a poet, essayist, and editor. Her books include Contacto de una mirada , Arrebatos, Luna Barroca, Papeles de la noche, Octubre, Triángulo en trébol and Hacia el sur. 3/23, 4 p.m.
	Gregory Orr, author of The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems (1973-2002), has been on the UVa faculty since 1975. He is the recipient of the Virginia Prize for Poetry and has received National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim fellowships. 3/20, 8 p.m.; 3/23, 10 a.m.
	Karren Pell is a singer/songwriter and teacher. Her work ranges from commercial songs, published and recorded nationally and internationally, to music theater produced by Opera Memphis, Alabama Shakespeare Festival and others, to Alabama Troubadour, a musical-prose project. Pell is an English professor at Auburn University, Montgomery. 3/23 12 noon.
Kristen Staby Rembold's novel, Felicity, published in 1994, was winner of the Mid-List First Novel Series Award. Her poetry has appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Passages North, South Dakota Review, and other journals, and chapbooks. 3/24, 1:30 p.m.
	Linda María Rodríguez Guglielmoni, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, has studied at Georgetown, Dijon, Oxford , and The University of Michigan where she earned a Ph.D. Her collection of experimental bilingual poetry is called Metropolitan Fantasies —textos errantes.3/23, 4 p.m.
Joan Z. Rough is an artist and poet. Her work has been exhibited locally at the McGuffey Art Center. Her poetry has been published in a number of journals and in the anthology, Some Say Tomato, edited by Mariflo Stephens. 3/24, 1:30 p.m.
Jean Sampson is a McGuffey Artist and Charlottesville native. A self-taught poet, Jean lives in downtown Charlottesville with her husband Bill. 3/24, 3 p.m.
	Grace Simpson of Hampden-Sydney, Virginia's Poet Laureate, is a former English and journalism teacher. A graduate of Winthrop University and Longwood College, she is author of a chapbook, Speech Lessons, and a collection, Dancing the Bones. 3/20, 10 a.m.; 3/20, 6 p.m.
	Hilda Ward, a retired health educator and registered nurse, taught at UVa for years. Her first poetry collection is Pieces of Her African American Quilt. She recently released a CD, Images. 3/24, 3 p.m.