Monday Poets - April Lindner and David Moolten February 2, 2010

April Lindners poetry collection, Skin, received the 2002 Walt McDonald First Book Prize from Texas Tech University Press. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including The Hudson Review, The Paris Review, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, and The Formalist, as well as in numerous anthologies and textbooks. Garrison Keillor featured her work on his nationally syndicated radio program, The Writers Almanac. With R. S. Gwynn, she co-edited Contemporary American Poetry, an anthology in Longmans Penguin Academics series. David Mooltens poetry has appeared in many journals and reviews such as Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Southwest Review, and Epoch. His first book, Plums & Ashes, won the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize. A third collection, Primitive Mood, recently won the T.S. Eliot prize from Truman State University Press and is forthcoming in the fall of 2009.