Poetry Society of Georgia

Vivian Shipley - October

Shipley is the author of seven book of poetry, her most recent, Hardboot: New and Old Poems was published by Louisiana Literature Press. She is the Connecticut State University Distinguished Professor, and editor of the Connecticut Review. Shipley has won numerous poetry prizes and awards during the past few years, including the University of Southern California's Ann Stanford Prize, and the Poetry Society of America's Lucille Medwick Award.

Leigh Anne Couch - November

Couch is the author of Green and Helpless, a chapbook published by Finishing Line Press. Her newest book, Houses Fly Away, was published by Zone 3 Press in fall 2007. Couch lives in Tennessee and is the managing editor of the Sewanee Review. Her poems have appeared in the Western Humanities Review, Shenandoah, 32 Poems, Alaska Quarterly Review, Blackbird, Carolina Quarterly, and other journals. She has held residency fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Kimmel-Harding Nelson Center for the Arts.

Greg Williamson - January

Williamson grew up in Nashville, Tn. His first book, The Silent Partner, won The Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize and was published by Story Line Press in 1995. Errors in the Script was published by Overlook Press in 2001 and was runner-up for the NYC Poets’ Prize. His third book, A Most Marvelous Piece of Luck, will be published this fall by Waywiser Press. He has received a Whiting Writers’ Award, a grant from the NEA, and an Academy Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Barbara Hamby - February

Hamby's most recent book of poems, Babel, won the 2003 Associated Writing Programs Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2004. She was the winner of the 1994 Vassar Miller Prize winner, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. Her poems have been chosen for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2000, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology 2001. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The Southern Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, Ploughshares, Five Points, The Harvard Review, TriQuarterly and many other magazines. She is Writer-in-Residence at the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.

Alice Friman - March

Friman is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently The Book of the Rotten Daughter from BkMk Press released in April 2006, and Zoo (Arkansas, 1999), winner of the Ezra Pound Poetry Award from Truman State University and the Sheila Margaret Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club. Her poems appear in Poetry, The Georgia Review, Boulevard, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Shenandoah, which awarded Friman the 2002 James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry. She's received fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission and the Arts Council of Indianapolis and has been awarded residencies at many colonies including MacDowell and Yaddo. She was named Writer in Residence at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in 2003-04. Friman is the winner of three prizes from Poetry Society of America and in 2001-02 was named to the Georgia Poetry Circuit. Professor Emerita at the University of Indianapolis, she now lives in Milledgeville, GA where she is Poet-in-Residence at Georgia College & State University.

Dan Albergotti - April

Albergotti’s poems have appeared in Ascent, Meridian, Mid-American Review, New Orleans Review, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other journals, and are forthcoming in The Southern Review and the anthology The Best New Poets 2005. He has received scholarships from the Sewanee and Bread Loaf writers’ conferences, as well as a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His chapbook Charon’s Manifest was selected by Thom Ward as the winner of the 2005 Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Poetry Chapbook Competition. A graduate of the MFA program at UNC Greensboro and former poetry editor of The Greensboro Review, he currently serves as associate poetry editor of the online journal storySouth and teaches in the English department of Coastal Carolina University.