February Poets via Malaprop’s Poetrio Event

Welcome to Virtual Poetrio
Sunday, February 7, 2021 at 3 PM EST

We hope you will join me online to welcome Artress Bethany White, author of My Afmerica; Kathleen O’Toole, author of This Far; and Alice Friman, author of Blood Weather.

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Artress Bethany White
Artress Bethany White is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. She is the recipient of the Trio Award for her poetry collection, My Afmerica (Trio House Press, 2019). Her debut essay collection, Survivor’s Guilt: Essays on Race and American Identity(New Rivers Press, 2020), is currently listed as a Community of Literary Magazines and Presses ( CLMP ) social justice read. Her prose and poetry have appeared in such journals as Harvard Review, Solstice, Poet Lore, Ecotone, Birmingham Poetry Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and The Hopkins Review.  New work is forthcoming in Green Mountains Review and Tahoma Review. White has received fellowships and residencies at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, The Writer’s Hotel, and the Tupelo Press/MASS MoCA studios. She is associate professor of English at East Stroudsburg University and teaches poetry and nonfiction workshops for Rosemont College Summer Writer’s Retreat in Pennsylvania. She is current nonfiction editor at the Boston-based literary magazine Pangyrus. http://www.artressbethanywhite.com

Kathleen O’Toole
Kathleen O’Toole has braided an active professional life in community organizing with teaching and writing. She is the author of four poetry collections, and her poems have appeared widely in magazines and journals including America, Atlanta Review, Christian Century, Cresset, Notre Dame Review, Poetry, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, Presence and Smartish Pace. Her latest collection This Far, was released by Paraclete Press in October 2019. Her other books include two chapbooks, Practiceand Waking Hours, and a previous full-length collection, Meanwhile, as well as In the Margins, which she co-authored with three other women poets. Her poem “Sierra Lament” won the 2020 Connecticut River Review Poetry Prize. Kathleen is the current Poet Laureate of Takoma Park, MD. Find her work at https://kathleenotoolepoetry.com

Alice Friman
Alice Friman’s seventh collection of poetry, Blood Weather, is from LSU press. She is a recipient of many honors including two Pushcart Prizes and inclusion in Best American Poetry. She’s been published in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Plume, The Massachusetts Review, Crazyhorse, Cloudbank, and many others. She lives in Milledgeville, Georgia, where she was Poet-in-Residence at Georgia College. Her website is alicefrimanpoet.com