THEME: Land Labor – Quinn McCracken is a poet from the central Pennsylvania anthracite coal region. He studied creative writing with Robert Cording and other great writers at the college of the Holy Cross before receiving his MFA under the tutelage of Stanley Plumly at the University of Maryland. Now Quinn lives in Bloomsburg where responds his labor teaching college English. At home he is at the mercy of three daughters and his wife, Debra.
MC: Jerry Wemple