The Pennsylvania Review

ISSN 1937-7908

Author Archives

E. M. Schorb has published several collections of poetry, including Time and Fevers: New and Selected Poems (AuthorsHouse, 2004), which was chosen as a 2007 Eric Hoffer Book Award winner; A Fable & Other Prose Poems (2002), Murderer's Day (1998), winner of the Verna Emery Poetry Prize; 50 Poems (1987); and The Poor Boy and Other Poems (1975); and a chapbook, Like the Fall of Rome and Other Humanitarian Disasters (1980). He is also the author of two novels: Paradise Square, which won the International eBook Award Foundation's Frankfurt eBook Award for "Best Fiction work originally published in eBook form," and Scenario for Scorsese (both Denlinger's Publishers, 2000). His poems and prose have appeared in Best American Fantasy 2007, as well as The American Scholar, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Chattahoochee Review, Chelsea, The Literary Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, The Texas Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Yale Review, among other journals. His honors include Fellowships in Literature from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the North Carolina Arts Council, and grants from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the Carnegie Fund for Authors, and Robert Rauschenberg & Change, Inc. (for illustrations in The Poor Boy). He lives in Mooresville, North Carolina.

Jared Carter’s New Book

Cross this Bridge at a Walk, is now avail­able from Wind Pub­li­ca­tions in Kentucky.

Cross this Bridge at a Walk

Its six­teen nar­ra­tive poems recount inci­dents in America’s his­tory from the Rev­o­lu­tion to the present, with cameo appear­ances by Mother Ann Lee, Emily Dick­in­son, Scott Joplin, and Bix Beiderbecke.

To read sam­ple poems from the book, go to “Coxey’s Army,” “Spirea,” or “Jesus Walk­ing on the Water.”

Alfred Dorn’s Lat­est Book

Alfred Dorn

We offer to any­one who con­tributes $20 or more to The New Formalist a free hard copy of Alfred Dorn’s lat­est book, Vis­its and Vis­tas, signed by the author. This book is a lim­ited edi­tion of 50 signed and num­bered copies, and only 20 of them remain avail­able. They will be given to con­trib­u­tors on a first-come, first-served basis. Copies of Alfred Dorn’s ear­lier books are offered by on-line book­sellers for prices as high as $175, and signed copies of his books are very scarce. Don’t delay!