Two Graduates Featured in Flavorwire List

Flavorwire's list of "23 People Who Will Make You Care About Poetry," features two UA graduates!

Matthew Henriksen (2004) is the author of Ordinary Sun, praised as one of the best poetry collections from a small press in 2011. He co-edits Typo, is editor of Cannibal Books, and established, with his wife, Katy, the Burning Chair reading series.

Brian Spears (2002) is the author of A Witness in Exile. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford from 2002-2004 and winner of the  2005 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. He teaches at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and is poetry editor of The Rumpus.