Mary Biddinger

Round-Down: University of Akron Press Shuttering

Round-Down: University of Akron Press Shuttering

ByPeter Kispert

Last Tuesday, highly regarded University of Akron Press announced on social media it was closing its doors, its employees having received “pink slips.” This was an effort on the part of the university–specifically UA President Scarborough and the board of trustees–to eliminate a significant portion of its debt, which currently stands at an alleged sixty million dollars. A few…

“It’s All About the Panic”: An Interview with Mary Biddinger
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“It’s All About the Panic”: An Interview with Mary Biddinger

ByMatthew Thorburn

Mary Biddinger’s poems are poignant, playful, a little mysterious, in love with language, and full of surprising connections: between music and meaning, between memory and imagination, between nostalgia and a yearning for what’s next. I’ve read and admired her poems since we were in the same undergraduate workshops at the University of Michigan twenty years…