August 4 Guests

MILLICENT BORGES ACCARDI
Millicent Borges Accardi has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts (NEA), the California Arts Council, Barbara Deming Foundation, and Formby Special Collections at Texas Tech.  Her work has appeared in over 50 publications including Nimrod, Tampa Review, New Letters and Wallace Stevens Journal as well as in Boomer Girls (Iowa Press) and Chopin with Cherries (Moonrise Press) anthologies.  Residencies include Yaddo, Jentel, Vermont Studio, Fundación Valparaíso in Mojacar and Milkwood in Cesky Krumlov. Her chapbook, Woman on a Shaky Bridge is with Finishing Line Press. Two full-length collections are forthcoming: Injuring Eternity (Mischievous Muse, winter 2010), and Only More So (Salmon Poetry Ireland), spring 2012. She graduated from USC with an MPW degree in 1993. Her chapbook is called Woman on a Shaky Bridge and is for sale at Amazon.

RANDALL MANN
Randall Mann is the author of the poetry collections BREAKFAST WITH THOM GUNN (University of Chicago, 2009), a finalist for the California Book Award and Lambda Literary Award, and COMPLAINT IN THE GARDEN (Zoo/Orchises, 2003), winner of the Kenyon Review Prize; and co-author of the textbook Writing Poems.  His poems have appeared in the Washington Post, Poetry, Paris Review, and New Republic.  He lives in San Francisco.