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P&P Live! Lily Poetry Review Books | with Chloe Yelena Miller, Laura Van Prooyen & Jeff Oaks
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February 18, 2021
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58:01Now PlayingJoin Chloe Yelena Miller, Laura Van Prooyen & Jeff Oaks as they celebrate their recent releases from Lily Poetry Review Books on P&P Live!
Chloe Yelena Miller is a writer and teacher living in Washington, D.C., with her partner and their child. She is the author of Viable (forthcoming from Lily Poetry Review Books, 2021) and Unrest (Finishing Line Press, 2013). She is a recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities (2020.) Chloe teaches writing at the University of Maryland Global Campus and Politics and Prose Bookstore, as well as privately. Chloe has an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College and a BA from Smith College.
Laura Van Prooyen is author of three collections of poetry: Frances of the Wider Field (forthcoming from Lily Poetry Review Books, 2021) Our House Was on Fire (Ashland Poetry Press) nominated by Philip Levine and winner of the McGovern Prize and Inkblot and Altar (Pecan Grove Press). She is also co-author with Gretchen Bernabei of Text Structures from Poetry, a book of writing lessons for educators of grades 4-12 (Corwin Literacy). Van Prooyen teaches in the low-residency MFA Creative Writing program at Miami University, and she lives in San Antonio, TX.
Jeff Oaks' debut book of poetry, Little What, was published by Lily Poetry Review Books in September 2019. A recipient of three Pennsylvania Council of the Arts fellowships, Oaks has published poems in a number of literary magazines, most recently in Best New Poets, Field, Georgia Review, Missouri Review, Superstition Review, and Tupelo Quarterly. His prose has appeared in At Length, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Kenyon Review Online, and Water~Stone Review. Both his poems and prose have appeared in the anthologies Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction, and My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them. He teaches writing at the University of Pittsburgh.
Purchase “Viable” by Chloe Yelena Miller here:
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