PoemoftheWeek.org
started as a small email list to friends, family, and colleagues featuring a poem each week that I felt was highly representative
of the best previously published Contemporary American poetry. This brought verse to people who were lovers and students
of poetry and to those whose knowledge of poetry started and ended at The Divine Comedy. Slowly but surely,
PoemoftheWeek.org has grown in its number of recipients but has also matured with the incorporation of original and previously
published author interviews regarding the poems featured (rather than regarding their entire school of thought on poetry),
reviews of their work(s), and essays on poetics.
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If you wish to receive PoemoftheWeek.org each week in your email, please send a message to andrewmcfadyenketchum@poemoftheweek.org with your email address in the body of the email and please let us know how you made it to the site.
Last but not least, please feel free to
tell your friends and family about PoemoftheWeek.org! Our numbers are growing daily.
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Thank you,
Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum,
Editor
MFA
Poetry, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Call us at 615-375-6247
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Managing Editors: Michael Pilola & Martin Call
Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum is a poet, editor, and essayist
whose poems, essays, reviews, podcasts, and interviews recently appear in The Writers Chronicle, The Spoon River
Poetry Review, Poet Lore, The Missouri Review, storySouth, Blackbird, InsideHigherEd.com, Eclipse, Copper Nickel,
New Letters, Glimmer Train, Hayden's Ferry Review, Potomac Review, The Southern Indiana Review, Sou'wester, The
Crab Orchard Review, and The Cold Mountain Review, among others. He is Founder and Editor of
PoemoftheWeek.org and Managing Editor of AdHominem.weebly.com. Andrew holds a Masters of Fine Arts Degree from Southern Illinois University- Carbondale, is an Adjunct Professor
of English at Pepperdine University and Pacific States University, and teaches workshops out of his home with LAWritersgroup.org. mnm
After receiving Virginia Tech's Fiction Award in 2004, Michael Pilola
has published work in Taj Mahal Review, In
Medias Res, Ascent Aspirations, and Poor Mojo's Almanac(k). He received his MFA from Hollins University in 2007,
and now lives in Hampton Roads, Virginia, where he teaches English and occasionally updates his art and literature blog, Ad Hominem.com.
