Poems of Environmental & Social Justice
From their unique perspectives, poets Jane Satterfield and Ned Balbo engage personal and public history through an awareness of the challenges that shape our contemporary moment.
Jane Satterfield is the author of four books, including Daughters of Empire: a Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond, and Her Familiars, a collection of poetry. Satterfield's honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry, the Florida Review Editors' Prize, the Mslexia women's poetry prize, and the Bellingham Review's 49th Parallel Poetry Prize. She has served as the literary editor for the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, and she is an associate professor of writing at Loyola University Maryland.
Ned Balbo is the author of three books, including, most recently, The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems, which was awarded the 2010 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and the Poets' Prize. Balbo currently teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University. His honors include the John Guyon Nonfiction Award, the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award, and three Maryland Arts Council grants. His fourth book, Upcycling Paumanok, which poet Mark Jarman has lauded as "the vital history of one of the crucial American places," is forthcoming in 2016. Pearl Hogrefe Visiting Writers Series