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Kate Hanson Foster
Michael Schmeltzer
featuring
special guest Matthew Nienow
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For More information on If Nothing and Matthew Nienow’s work visit: matthewnienow.com
“Self -Elegies” by Martha Silano
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1626393/self-elegies
Matthew Nienow is the author of two collections with Alice James Books: House of Water (2016) and If Nothing (2025). His work has appeared in Gulf Coast, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry, and has been recognized with fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Artist Trust. He lives in Port Townsend, Washington, with his wife and sons, where he works as a mental health counselor.
Kate Hanson Foster is the author of Crow Funeral (EastOver Press 2022) and Mid Drift, finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in 2011. A recent recipient of the NEA Sustainable Arts Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, she lives and writes in Groton, Massachusetts.
Michael Schmeltzer's most recent book of poetry, Empire
of Surrender, is the winner of the 2021 Wandering Aengus Book Award. Along with Meghan McClure, he is the co-author of the nonfiction book A Single Throat Opens, a lyric exploration of addiction and family. His debut full-length Blood Song was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in Poetry, the Julie Suk Award, and the Coil Book Award.
Contact Kate or Michael: table4deuce@gmail.com
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