Barbara Ungar + Stuart Bartow
“Poetic Nature”

Barbara Ungar + Stuart Bartow

BARBARA UNGAR is the author of four full-length poetry collections: Immortal Medusa; Thrift; Charlotte Brontë, You Ruined My Life; and The Origin of the Milky Way, which won the Gival Press Poetry Award, an Independent Publisher’s Award, the Adirondack Center for Writing Poetry Award, and an Eric Hoffer Award. She is also the author of Haiku in English and several chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Rattle, Salmagundi, Talking River, The Minnesota Review, Cream City Review, Literary Review, Global City Review, Dominion Review, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Atticus Review, and The Nervous Breakdown. She is a professor of English and director of the MFA program at the College of Saint Rose in Albany.

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STUART BARTOW’s poetry collection Einstein’s Lawn was just released by Dos Madres Press. He teaches writing and literature at SUNY Adirondack where he also directs the college’s Writers Project. His prose work, Teaching Trout to Talk, The Zen of Small Stream Fly Fishing, published by RA Press, won the Adirondack Center for Writing Award for Non-Fiction. Stuart is also chair of the Battenkill Conservancy, a grassroots environmental group. His other most recent books of poetry include Reasons to Hate the Sky and Questions for the Sphinx.