Denise Low, Ph.D., authors a regular poetry blog, which includes the Ad Astra Poetry Project, downloadable electronic broadsides (or flyers) and resources for writers, especially poets. A collection of these will be available in book form December, 2009. Another forthcoming book is Natural Theologies–articles about Plains and Midwestern writers (The Backwater Press, 2010) and Ghost Stories of the New West, narratives.

 

Three Voices is a recent multimedia project, with text, image, and videography (www.paulhotvedt.com ). A DVD is available through www.mammothpublications.com .

 

Her book about writing poetry in the Midwest grasslands, Words of a Prairie Alchemist (Ice Cube Press 2006) is a Kansas Notable Book. Among her ten books of poetry are Thailand Journal: Poems, a Kansas City Star notable book (Woodley 2003) and New & Selected Poems 1980-1999 (Penthe 2000, Mammoth 2007). She and her husband Thomas Weso wrote a photo-biography, Langston Hughes in Lawrence. Other writings, including reviews, appear in North American Rev., Northwest Rev., Midwest Q., Kansas City Star, Bloomsbury Rev., Connecticut Rev., Studies in American Indian Literature, American Indian Q. and others. Members of the Associated Writers and Writing Programs elected her to the national board in 2008. She also is active in Imagination & Place, a committee dedicated to publications, programs, and conferences.

 

She grew up in Emporia, Kansas, and has lived in Lawrence since 1967. She is a 5^th generation Kansan of German, British, and unaffiliated Lenape (Delaware) and Cherokee heritage.

Education: Ph.D., English, University of Kansas.

M.F.A., Creative Writing, Wichita State University.

M.A., English, University of Kansas. B.A., English, University of Kansas