Hail, Radiant Star!: Seven Medievalist Poets by Jane Beal, and others

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Hail, Radiant Star!: Seven Medievalist Poets

by Jane Beal, and others

$19.99, Full-length, paper

978-1-64662-039-5

2019

Jane Beal, PhD is a poet. She has published many collections of poetry, including _Sanctuary_ (Finishing Line Press, 2008), _Rising_ (Wipf and Stock, 2015) and _Journey_ (Origami Poems, 2019) as well as three audio recording projects combining music and poetry: “Songs from the Secret Life,” “Love-Song,” and “The Jazz Bird.” She also writes fiction, creative non-fiction, literary criticism, and music. She teaches at the University of La Verne in southern California. See http://janebeal.wordpress.com.

Gail Ivy Berlin has poems published in Lilliput Review, Poetry Depth Quarterly, and the New Growth Arts Review.  She attended Bread Loaf as a tuition scholar in poetry in the summer of 2016. Her poetry explores the mysterious interconnections between identity and transformation, past and present, the living and the dead, silence and the edges of language. She aims for a sense of expansion. Recently retired from Indiana University of Pennsylvania after a thirty-two year career, Gail has worked as a medievalist specializing in Old and Middle English language and literature and medieval women. Her publications include work on the Aesop’s Fables in the margin of the Bayeux Tapestry, Moses in Middle English biblical literature, and Tonwenne’s breast baring gesture in Laȝamon’s Brut. Much of her current research deals with the Brut, and she enjoys placing particular episodes from this text within a cultural context.  For this purpose, she has dealt with such topics as magic and gadgets, uroscopy, early attempts at flight, bridge sacrifice legends, and medieval ditches, all with equal joy.

Albrecht Classen is University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona where he teaches and researches the European Middle Ages and early modern time. In his by now 96 scholarly books and ca. 640 articles, he has investigated a wide range of topics, including women in the pre-modern world, medieval ecocriticism, magic and science, friendship, urban and rural space, multilingualism, mental health and hygiene, crime and punishment, war and peace, and communication. He is the editor of the journals Mediaevistik and Humanities Open Access. He has received numerous awards for his teaching, research and academic service. Most recently, he received the rank of Grand Knight Commander of the Most Noble Order of the Three Lions (GCTL). He is also an accomplished poet, having published nine volumes of his own, and close to individual 150 poems in various journals and magazines.

Thom Foy’s poetical interests are far reaching, always striving for the infinite within human thought, mediated by language. He teaches writing and rhetoric at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. His research interests include medieval romance and metaphysics as well as adaptation. Since 2014, he has adapted and performed several of Tolkien’s works for reader’s theater at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and at the 2017 Congress, he staged his adaptation of Tolkien’s “Leaf by Niggle.” He enjoys his family and his students, and he also finds joy in the solitude of running and the fellowship of travel.

Katharine Jager is a poet and a medieval scholar.  She is associate professor of English at the University of Houston-Downtown, and has published poetry in Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Lyric Devotional Verse (Yale); The Gettysburg Review; Found; Canteen; Friends Journal; The Great River Review; and GoodFoot among other journals.  She has an MFA from New York University.

A.J. Odasso‘s poetry has appeared in a variety of publications, including Sybil’s Garage, Mythic Delirium, Midnight Echo, Not One of Us, Dreams & Nightmares, Goblin Fruit, Strange Horizons, Stone Telling, Farrago’s Wainscot, Liminality, Battersea Review, Barking Sycamores, and New England Review of Books.  A.J.’s début collection, Lost Books (Flipped Eye Publishing), was nominated for the 2010 London New Poetry Award and was also a finalist for the 2010/2011 People’s Book Prize. A second collection with Flipped Eye, The Dishonesty of Dreams, was released in 2014; a third-collection manuscript, Things Being What They Are, was shortlisted for the 2017 Sexton Prize. A.J. holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Boston University, where A.J. was a 2015-16 Teaching Fellow, and A.J. has worked at the University of New Mexico. A.J. has served in the Poetry Department at Strange Horizons magazine (www.strangehorizons.com) since July 2012.

Katherine Durham Oldmixon (Garza) is the author of Water Signs, finalist for the New Women’s Voices Award (Finishing Line Press, 2009). Her poems and photographs appear in many print and online journals, such as Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Solstice Literary Magazine, The Bellevue Review, The Normal School, Sequestrum, Minerva Rising, the Cider Press Review, Mom Egg Review, and the anthologies Improbable Worlds: An Anthology of Texas and Louisiana, Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku and Haiga, Bearing the Mask: Persona Poems of the Southwest, and Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women.   Katherine holds a Ph.D. in English from UT-Austin, where she wrote her dissertation on the Middle English Breton Lays.  She earned her MFA in creative writing from University of New Orleans, and an M.A., with a concentration in medieval folklore, from University of Houston.  Co-director of the Poetry at Round Top festival and a senior poetry editor for Tupelo Quarterly, Katherine is professor and chair of English at historic Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, TX.