The Winter Getaway is well known for its challenging and
supportive workshops led by accomplished writers and artists. We hope you will get to know our faculty,
read some of their work first online, and then in person in January.
 Stephen
Dunn’s seventeenth volume of poetry, Falling Backwards into
the World, will be released by Jane Street Press
on January 15, 2012 at the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway. His
previous books include Different Hours, which was awarded the
2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and the recently released, Here
and Now (2011), both from Norton. Stephen has received awards
and fellowships from American Academy of Arts and Letters, The
Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry
Magazine, NJ State Council on the Arts, Poetry Northwest,
Mid-American Review and many others. A new and expanded edition
of his book of essays, Walking Light, was published in 2001.
He is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Richard
Stockton College of New Jersey, but spends most of his time in
Frostburg, Maryland with his wife, the writer Barbara Hurd. Stephen
will lead two special Advanced Poetry
Writing sessions at the Getaway.
 Laure-Anne
Bosselaar's latest book, A New Hunger,
was selected as an ALA Notable Book in 2008. She is also the author
of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf , and of Small Gods of
Grief, winner of the Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry
for 2001. She is the editor of four poetry anthologies, and
co-translated a book of Dutch poetry: The Plural of Happiness,
poems by Herman de Coninck. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, she
was faculty at Emerson College and Sarah Lawrence College and now
teaches at the Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine
Manor College.
www.laureannebosselaar.com
www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19544
 Kurt Brown is the editor of
Drive, They Said: Poems about
Americans and Their Cars (1994) and Verse & Universe: Poems about
Science and Mathematics (1998) both from Milkweed Editions. In
addition, he has edited three books of lectures delivered at
writers’ conferences across America and a collection of essays, The
Measured Word: On Poetry and Science, appeared from University of
Georgia Press. His fifth poetry collection from Red Hen Press is
entitled No Other Paradise. He is also the author of five chapbooks
of poetry and, with Harold Schechter, co-edited Killer Verse: Poems
about Mayhem and Murder, published by Alfred A. Knopf in their
Everyman’s Library Series in 2011.
www.unf.edu/mudlark/flashes/brown.html
 Barbara Daniels'
Rose Fever was published by WordTech Press. She received two
Individual Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on
the Arts, earned an MFA in poetry at Vermont College and was awarded
a full fellowship from the Dodge Foundation to attend the Vermont
Studio Center. Her chapbook, The Woman Who Tries to Believe, won the Quentin R. Howard Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Literary Review,
Switched-on Guttenberg, Ars Medica, and many other journals.
 Emari DiGiorgio teaches at The Richard Stockton
College of NJ and is a NJ State Council on the Arts
Poet-in-the-Schools. She is a recipient of a Vermont Studio
Center Residency, a NJ State Council on the Arts Poetry
Fellowship, and the Ellen LaForge Memorial Poetry Prize. Her
poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Feminist Studies,
US 1
Worksheets, The Marlboro Review, The Grolier Poetry Annual,
So
to Speak, The Georgetown Review, Buffalo Carp,
Whiskey Island,
The Barn Owl Review, HerMark 2009, Switched-on Gutenberg, and
the Paterson Literary Review. You can read and listen to some of
her poems at:
 Catherine Doty,
a 2011 NEA Fellow in Poetry, is the author of Momentum, a
volume of poems from CavanKerry Press in 2004, and Just
Kidding, a collection of cartoons published by Avocet Press.
Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies,
among them Garrison Keillor's More Good Poems for Hard Times
and Billy Collins' 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every
Day. She is the recipient of a Marjorie J. Wilson Award, an
Academy of American Poets Prize, fellowships from the New Jersey
State Council on the Arts and the New York Foundation for the
Arts and other grants and honors. Ms. Doty has worked as a
visiting artist for the Frost Place, the Geraldine R. Dodge
Foundation, the New York Public Library and other organizations.
 Karen Zaborowski Duffy
is the recipient of two Poetry Writing Fellowships from the New
Jersey State Council on the Arts and is a poetry consultant for the
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. She has done residencies at Ragdale,
Vermont Studio Center, and The Norman Mailer Writers Colony at
Provincetown where she was named a 2010 Fellow in Creative
Nonfiction. Karen’s poems have appeared in numerous journals
including Calyx, PMS-poemmemoirstory, Salt Flats
Annual, and Journal of New Jersey Poets. Her poetry
manuscript Pathology of Goodness was named 3rd runner-up for
Boa Editions, Ltd. 2010 A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize and her chapbook,
Giving in to the Smoke (2007), received the Starting Gate
Award from Finishing Line Press. Karen’s poem, "World Series, Game
5" was featured on The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer in 2007.
Karen will lead Poetry Tutorials
at the Getaway.
 Douglas
Goetsch is the author of seven collections of poems, most
recently Nameless Boy (forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon
University Press), and the recipient of fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the
Arts. His work has been published in numerous journals and
anthologies including The New Yorker, The Gettysburg
Review, The American Scholar, Best American Poetry
and The Pushcart Prize. He currently teaches in the Red Earth
Low Residency MFA at Oklahoma City University, and is editor of Jane
Street Press.
 Charles Lynch
has published poetry and prose in Before Columbus Review,
Black American Literature Forum, MEMOIR (and), Chelsea,
Ms. Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, Rattapallax,
Orison, Many Mountains Moving, The Saint Ann's
Review, The Ledge, Home Planet News, The Black
Scholar, Journal of New Jersey Poets, VISIONS
International, The Evening Street Review, The Drunken
Boat, and other periodicals and anthologies. His dissertation at
New York University was on the lives and poetry of Robert Hayden and
Gwendolyn Brooks. He teaches writing and literature at New Jersey
City University. In 2010 he received a Virginia Center for the
Creative Arts Fellowship for Cave Canem Poets sponsored by the
National Endowment for the Arts.
www.charleshlynch.com
 Peter E. Murphy was born in Wales and grew up in New York City where he
operated heavy equipment, managed a night club and drove a cab. He
is the author of Stubborn Child a finalist for the 2006 Paterson
Poetry Prize, and a chapbook of poems, Thorough & Efficient both
from Jane Street Press. In addition to receiving a 2009 Poetry
Fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, he has received
awards and fellowships from The Atlantic Center for the Arts, Yaddo,
The Folger Shakespeare Library, and the White House Commission on
Presidential Scholars. He is the founder/director of
Murphy
Writing Seminars which sponsors the Winter Poetry & Prose
Getaway and other programs for poets, writers, and teachers. Read
more...
 James
Richardson received the 2011 Jackson Poetry Prize. His most
recent books are By the Numbers, which was a finalist for the
2010 National Book Award and a Publishers Weekly "Best Book of
2010," Interglacial: New and Selected Poems and Aphorisms,
which was a finalist for the 2004 National Book Critics Circle
Award, and Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays. His
poems, essays and aphorisms have appeared in American Poet,
American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, Paris
Review, Poetry, Slate, Yale Review,
Great American Prose Poems, Geary’s Guide to the World's
Great Aphorists, the Pushcart Prize anthology and several
editions of The Best American Poetry. The recipient of an
Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters,
he is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Princeton
University. Jim will lead two
Advanced Poetry
Writing sessions at the Getaway.
 Christine E. Salvatore
received her MFA from The University of New Orleans. She currently
teaches literature and creative writing at Rosemont College, The
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and Egg Harbor Township High
School. Her poetry has recently appeared or will appear in The
Literary Review, The Cortland Review, Prime Number
Magazine and in The Edison Literary Review. She is the
recipient of a 2005 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council of
the Arts.
 Madeline Tiger
has 10 collections of poetry including The Atheist's Prayer, from
Dos Madres Press (2010), The Earth Which Is All (2008), and
Birds of Sorrow and Joy: New and Selected Poems,
1970-2000 (2003). Her
recent work has appeared in Edison Review, Tiferet,
Rhino, Bridges, Marlboro Review, Runes,
George Washington Review, Home Planet News,
Poetry New York, One Trick Pony and
U.S. 1. Tiger teaches in the NJ State Council on the
Arts/Writers-in-the-Schools programs. As a "Dodge Poet," she is a
visiting artist in schools and at festivals, and has been a facilitator
for the "Spring-Fountain" series.
 J. C. Todd is
author of What Space This Body (Wind Publications, 2008),
Nightshade, and Entering Pisces. Poems have appeared in
APR, Paris Review, and on Verse Daily. She was
a finalist in the Poetry Society of America's Lucille Medwick Lyric
Poetry Contest and a recipient of Leeway Awards, a PA Council on the
Arts Poetry Fellowship, a NJ Governor's Award for Arts Education,
and fellowships to arts colonies in Germany and Sweden. She has
edited translation features for The Drunken Boat, teaches in
the Creative Writing Program at Bryn Mawr College and the Graduate
English and Creative Writing Programs at Rosemont College and holds
an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson.
 Angelo Verga is a
poet, teacher, editor, manuscript doctor and curator of innumerable
literary events. His sixth collection, Praise for What Remains (Three Rooms Press, 2009), is a long
poem set in the crooked footpaths of lower Manhattan. He has been
widely published and anthologized, and translated into a dozen
languages. His earlier publications include 33 New York City
Poems (Booklyn, 2005), 3 Poets 4 Peace (Against The Tide,
2003), A Hurricane Is (Jane Street, 2002), The Six O’clock
News (Wind, 1999) and Across The Street from Lincoln Hospital
(New School, 1995). Read a review of one of Angelo's books:
 BJ
Ward's most recent book is Gravedigger's Birthday (North
Atlantic Books). His poems have been featured on Poetry Daily,
NPR's "The Writer's Almanac," and NJN's "State of the Arts," as well
as in publications such as Poetry, TriQuarterly, Painted Bride Quarterly, and The Sun. His essays
have appeared in The New York Times, Inside Jersey,
The Worcester Review, and Teaching Artist Journal. He is
the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and two Distinguished Artist
Fellowships from the NJ State Council on the Arts. BJ teaches at
Warren County Community College.
 Paul-Victor Winters'
most recent publications include poems and book reviews in New
York Quarterly, Shot Glass Journal and TLR: The
Literary Review. His chapbook, Muscle & Bone (Slapering
Hol Press) won the 1995 Hudson Valley Writers' Center Poetry
Chapbook Competition, judged by Billy Collins. He holds an MFA in
Poetry from Indiana University. He has taught writing and literature
at Indiana University, Atlantic Cape Community College and The
Richard Stockton College. He currently teaches English at Egg Harbor
Township High School.
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