The Moe Green Poetry Poetry Discussion/ Rafael F J Alvarado & Brett-Candace

Join Rafael & Brett-Candace as they talk to Keetje Kuipers Keetje Kuipers is a native of the Northwest. She earned her B.A. at Swarthmore College and her M.F.A. at the University of Oregon. She is now a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. In 2007 Keetje was the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident. She used the residency to complete work on her book Beautiful in the Mouth, which was awarded the 2009 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and is now published by BOA Editions. In addition, Keetje has been the recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Oregon Literary Arts, and Soapstone, as well as awards from Atlanta Review and Nimrod. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, West Branch, Painted Bride Quarterly, Willow Springs, and AGNI, among others, and have been nominated four years in a row for the Pushcart Prize. You can also listen to her read her work at the online audio archive From the Fishouse. She lives in San Francisco, California and Missoula, Montana with her dog, Bishop.