Poetry at the Point, February 23, 2010
February 23, 2010: Nancy Powers Pritchard, Julia Gordon-Bramer
Poetry at the Point features Nancy Powers Pritchard and Julia Gordon-Bramer for February 23, 2010.
Nancy Powers Pritchard’s poems have appeared in Mankato Poetry Review, PMS (PoemMemoirStory), Small Spiral Notebook, Melic Review, Main Channel Voices, Poetry Southeast, Fugue, (Re)verb and Natural Bridge. She received her MFA at University of Missouri-St. Louis and was runner-up in the 2005 graduate poetry contest. She won the 2005 and 2006 Wednesday Club Poetry Contests. Powers is Communications Manager for Moneta Group in Clayton. She teaches poetry to middle school students in the St. Louis Public Schools for Springboard.
Julia Gordon-Bramer, both a poet and prosewriter, has won local, regional, and national awards for her work. Her poems most recently appeared or will soon appear in The Arkansas Review: Journal of Delta Studies; Four Branches Press; The St. Louis Anthology of Poets; MARGIE: The American Journal of Poetry, Volume VII; Literal Chaos; and more. In 2007,Julia won both first and second prize in the 2007 St. Louis Writers Guild Poetry Contest, second place in their Fiction Contest, and second place in the national Raymond Carver short story contest. In 2008, her poem, "Daddy II" was nominated for the Stanley Hanks Prize. She teaches English at St. Louis Community College-Florissant Valley, as well as creative writing workshops for OASIS.