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PROSE POEMS BY 5 POETS: by Laura Baird, Deborah Brown, Barbara Siegel Carlson, Richard Jackson, & Susan Thomas

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The fact that the title of this book is taken from the great jazz piece written by Paul Desmond for the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s Time Out might suggest something about the structure. Gathered from a couple of years work, we would agree on a rubric—place, travel, philosophical ideas that we would respond to from our own experiences but also keeping in mind the others to create a kind of loose dialogue. "Jazz is about freedom within discipline," Dave Brubeck once said. The book is organized to keep in mind the eclectic mix of rhythms and musical themes in Brubeck’s Time Out and to echo the three part jazz concerto, So, the first section contains poems that tend to address who we are, the kinds of things we tend to notice (as for example, Laura Baird’s "Surface of Things." Some of these poems are political as in Barbara Carlson’s "After Threats of Nuclear War," while some others deal with social or ethical issues. The book has an improv feeling, like the exchanges between Milosz and Merton, Stafford and Bell, in a tradition that harks back to Dante and Cavalcanti. Collectively, the five poets have published about 35 books (winners of James Agee, Ashland, Concho Rio, Cleveland State, and Juniper Prize and Maxine Kumin Awards) and have won numerous awards including Guggenheim, Fulbright, Witter-Bynner, NEA, NEH Fellowships, to several Pushcart awards to awards from being Poet Laureate of New Hampshire and Translation Workshop Awards from Slovenia. The authors also range from New England to Tennessee to Alabama, and teach at universities such as the University of New Hampshire and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, are editors of a couple of journals (Solstice and Poetry Miscellany), and include a tutor and counselor. They have traveled around the world, writing these exchanges as dispatches from Europe and various places in the United States. Laura (Behr) Baird’s poems appear in numerous magazines and in Paddleshots: Selected and Bottled by River Pretty, and The Heart’s Many Doors. • Deborah Brown is the author of 2 poetry books, co-edited a book on poetics, and co-translated Last Voyage with Richard Jackson and Susan Thomas. • Barbara Siegel Carlson is the author of 2 poetry collections, co-translator of 2 books of poems by Sre¿ko Kosovel and co-editor of A Bridge of Voices. • Richard Jackson is the author of 15 books of poems, 10 of criticism, and winner of Guggenheim, Fulbright, NEA , and Slovene Order of Freedom. • Susan Thomas has published 3 poetry collections, and a collection of short stories.

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Richard Jackson is the author of sixteen books of poetry including The Heart as Framed: New & Select Poems (Press 53, 2022), Where the Wind Comes From (Kelsay Books, 2021), Broken Horizons (Press 53, 2018) and Dispatches: Prose Poems (Wet Cement Press, 2022), and twelve books of essays, interviews, translations and anthologies. Other books include: Take Five (Finishing Line, with four other poets, 2019), Traversings (Anchor and Plume, 2016) Retrievals (C&R Press, 2014), Out of Place (Ashland, 2014), Resonancia (Barcelona, 2014, a translation of Resonance from Ashland, 2010), Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (Autumn House, 2004), Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems (Ashland, 2003), and Heartwall (UMass, Juniper Prize 2000), as well as four chapbook adaptations from Pavese and other Italian poets, and a chapbook of prose poems, Fifties. The Heart's Many Doors is an anthology of poems by American poets on the artists Metka Kraovec (Wings Press, 2017). He has translated a book of poems by Alexsander Persolja (Potvanje Sonca / Journey of the Sun) (Kulturno Drustvo Vilenica: Slovenia, 2007) as well as Last Voyage, a book of translations of the early-twentieth-century Italian poet, Giovanni Pascoli, (Red Hen, 2010). In addition, he has edited the selected poems of Slovene poet, Iztok Osijnik. He was awarded the Order of Freedom Medal for literary and humanitarian work during the Balkan wars by the President of Slovenia during his work with the Slovene-based Peace and Sarajevo Committees of PEN International. He has received Guggenheim, Fulbright, NEA, NEH, and two Witter-Bynner fellowships, a Prairie Schooner Reader's Choice Award, the Crazyhorse Prize in Poetry; he is the winner of five Pushcart Prizes and has appeared in Best American Poems as well as many other anthologies. His poems have been translated into nineteen languages including books in Slovenia and Barcelona. His books and chapbooks have won numerous awards including the Juniper Prize, Maxine Kumin Award, Cleveland State Poetry Prize, Choice Award, Agee Award and others. He has given hundreds of readings and lectures in the United States and abroad, from Hong Kong to India to Israel and eastern Europe. He has taught at the Iowa Summer Festival, The Prague Summer Workshops, and regularly at UT-Chattanooga (since 1976), where he directs the Meacham Writers' Conference. He has taught at Vermont College of Fine Arts since 1987, winning teaching awards at both schools. In 2009 he won the AWP George Garret Award for teaching and writing.He also edited over twenty chapbooks of poems from Eastern Europe. His own poems have been translated into seventeen languages including Worlds Apart: Selected Poems in Slovene. He has edited three anthologies of Slovene poetry and Poetry Miscellany, a journal. He is the author of Dismantling Time in Contemporary American Poetry (Agee Prize), and Acts of Mind: Interviews with Contemporary American Poets (Choice Award). Originator of Vermont College of Fine Arts's Slovenia Program, he was a Fulbright Exchange poet to former Yugoslavia and returns to Europe each year with groups of students.