IT'S HERE! -VCCA's Poetry Anthology!

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Over a year in the making, this remarkable anthology is a labor of love by VCCA Fellows and the Fellows' Council to celebrate VCCA's 40th anniversary.

Edited by Margaret B. Ingraham and Andrea Carter Brown, Entering the Real World: VCCA Poets on Mt. San Angelo contains over sixty previously published poems by our Fellows, all written about or inspired by their residencies here. The poets are from throughout the United States, around the world—and across the decades.

Virginia Poet Laureate Kelly Cherry calls it: ". . .this splendid, intriguing anthology . . ."

Editor Margaret B. Ingraham writes: "This anthology is at once a work of literary merit, a celebratory offering, and an historical record of a hallowed place."

T H E P O E T S
Marcia Aldrich
Karren LaLonde Alenier
Annette Allen
Rebecca Baggett
Ned Balbo
Mary Bonina
Andrea Carter Brown
Andrea Hollander Budy
Fran Castan
Kelly Cherry
Patricia Clark
Barbara Crooker
Deborah Cummins
Carol V. Davis
Carla Drysdale
Moira Egan
George Ellenbogen
Charles Fishman
Alice Friman
Becky Gould Gibson
L. B. Green
Ralph Grüneberger
Kenneth Hart
Neva Herrington
Con Hilberry
Lori Horvitz
Colette Inez
Margaret B. Ingraham
Halvard Johnson
Marilyn Kallet
LuAnn Keener-Mikenas
Sybil Kollar
Angela Kreuz
Laurie Kutchins
Teresa Leo
Ginny MacKenzie
Mary Mackey
Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
Tanure Ojaide
Kathleen O’Toole
Lia Purpura
Kim Roberts
Steve Roberts
Jennifer Rose
Thaddeus Rutkowski
Neil Shepard
Enid Shomer
Taije Silverman
Melissa Stein
Elisabeth Stevens
Stephen Tapscott
Alice Templeton
Vivian Teter
J. C. Todd
Alison Townsend
Martin Tucker
Memye Curtis Tucker
G. C. Waldrep
BJ Ward
Marjory Wentworth
Michele Wolf

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