WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
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Host Andy Mahler is joined in the studio by award-winning poet and author Maurice Manning, a teacher in the graduate creative writing program at Indiana University. Maurice Manning is a native of Danville, Kentucky. He received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Alabama, and also holds degrees from Earlham College and the University of Kentucky. Manning’s work has appeared in The Green Mountains Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Sonora Review, and The New Yorker. His collection entitled “Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions” is the 2001 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. In the book’s forward, competition judge W. S. Merwin characterizes the visions as “the kind [that] alter as the kaleidoscope turns. They are made up of make-believe, hallucination, memory, fragments of reflected history and legend and fantasized hearsay, dramatized dream, images of wishes and of dread.” Manning began full-time teaching in the Indiana University M.F.A. program in fall 2004.
