WORD THURSDAYS FEATURING SUSANA CASE AND MARGO STEVER

SUSANA CASE

Susana H. Case  has authored eight books of poetry, most recently The Damage Done (Broadstone Books, 2022) which won her a third Pinnacle Book Achievement Award. Her books have previously also won an IPPY, a NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite award, and she was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the International Book Awards, and the American Book Fest awards. The first of her five chapbooks, The Scottish Café (Slapering Hol Press) was re-released in a dual-language English-Polish version, Kawiarnia Szkocka (Opole University Press). She co-edited, with Margo Taft Stever, the anthology I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe (Milk and Cake Press, 2022). Case worked several decades as a university professor and program coordinator in New York City and currently is a co-editor of Slapering Hol Press and a co-host of the literary series W-E: Poets of the Pandemic and Beyond. If This Isn’t Love is forthcoming from Broadstone Books. http://www.susanahcase.com/. 

MARGO STEVER

Margo Taft Stever’s three full-length poetry collections are The End of Horses (Broadstone Books, 2022), winner of a 2022 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award in Poetry; Cracked Piano (CavanKerry Press, 2019) finalist with honorable mention for the 2021 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize; and Frozen Spring, winner of the 2002 Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry. The latest of her four chapbooks is Ghost Moose (Kattywompus Press, 2019). In 2022, Margo Taft Stever and Susana H. Case edited I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe (Milk & Cake Press) which was the sole winner of the 2022 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Anthologies and was a finalist for the International Book and the American Book Fest Awards for Anthologies. Her poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies, including Plume, Verse Daily, “Poem-A-Day” on poets.org, Prairie Schooner, Connecticut Review, Cincinnati Review, upstreet, and Salamander. She is founder of the Hudson Valley Writers Center and founding and current co-editor of Slapering Hol Press. She also teaches a poetry workshop for at-risk adolescents at Children’s Village, a residential school for at-risk children in Dobbs Ferry, New York. (www.margotaftstever.com).

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