Sara Moore Wagner is the winner of the 2021 Cider Press Review Editors Prize for her book Swan Wife and the 2020 Driftwood Press Manuscript Prize for Hillbilly Madonna. She has published two chapbooks, Tumbling After (Red Bird Chapbooks)and Hooked Through (Five Oaks Press). She won the 2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, a 2019 Sustainable Arts Foundation award, and she was a 2021 National Poetry Series Finalist. Her work has appeared in Sixth Finch, Beloit Poetry Journal, Waxwing, The Cincinnati Review, Nimrod, Rhino, and others. Wagner's book Lady Wingshot, based on the life of Annie Oakley, won the Blue Lynx Prize and is forthcoming in 2024.

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) was born in 1886 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and she grew up in Upper Darby near Philadelphia. She attended Bryn Mawr and the University of Pennsylvania. H.D. published numerous books, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, essays, and translations. The publication of her collected and selected poetry helped to establish her as a major poet of the 20th century. H.D.’s work is revered by countless writers and critics, and she’s often thought of as a poet's poet and one of the key figures of the Imagist movement. She died in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1961.

Links:

Read "Purity Test"

Read "Captivity Narrative"

Read "Legend Says"

Read "Leda"

Sara Moore Wagner

Sara Moore Wagner's website

"Anti-Pastoral" at Sixth Finch

"Passing It On" at Waxwing

"Girl as a Deer Shedding the Velvet" at The Inflectionist Review

"Embracing the Half-Wild Creature: A Conversation with Sara Moore Wagner" at The Rumpus

"Sara Moore Wagner on 'Getting My Body Back'" at Poetry Society of America

H.D.

Bio and poems at The Poetry Foundation

Bio and poems at Poets.org

"H.D.: American Poet" in Britannica

"Radical Freedom: Poets on the Life and Work of H.D." Live from the IceHouse Tonight (YouTube)

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