Special Event:

Frost Farm Poetry Conference Keynote Speaker Bruce Bennett

& Frost Farm Prize Winner, David Southward - Friday, June 14, 7pm

Bruce Bennett is the author of ten full-length collections of poetry and more than thirty poetry chapbooks. His most recent book is Just Another Day in Just Our Town Poems: New And Selected, 2000-2016 (Orchises Press, 2017). Bennett co-founded and served as an editor of both Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics and Ploughshares. A 2012 Pushcart Prize winner, Bennett is Professor Emeritus of English at Wells College where he serves as Director of Wells College Press.

David Southward grew up in southwest Florida and earned degrees in English from Northwestern University (BA ’90) and Yale (PhD ’97). Since 1998 he has taught literature, film, and comics in the Honors College at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His sonnet sequence Apocrypha (Wipf & Stock 2018) reimagines Gospel narratives from a humanistic perspective; a full collection, Bachelor’s Buttons, is forthcoming from Kelsay Books (April 2020). His work has appeared in Light, The Lyric, Measure, POEM, and other journals, as well as the anthologies Van Gogh Dreams and Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle. In 2017 he was awarded the Lorine Niedecker Prize from the Council for Wisconsin Writers (selected by Tyehimba Jess) and the Muse Prize from the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (selected by Mark Doty). In his spare time David enjoys cooking, gardening, and traveling with his husband, Geoff. To read more of his work, visit davidsouthward.com.