It’s Day Three of the 10th Annual SLC Poetry Festival! We thank our tireless student volunteers, faculty and staff, participating presses; and, of course, our esteemed guests for celebrating with us so far. Quoting Ed Bok Lee last night, there’s so much (beeping) poetry!

Don’t miss the Brunch/Craft talk with Joyelle McSweeney and Johannes Goransson at 12 p.m. (Slonim Living Room), and the last four sets of readings featuring:

Marina Manoukian, Dana Inez, JOHANNES GÖRANSSON, Katu Medina, Emily Stokes, MONICA FERRELL, Bekkah Olson, Amanda Watters, D. NURKSE, Claire Natirbov, Juan Ramirez and THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS.

We regret to announce that one of our featured readers, dg nanouk okpik, is unable to make it to the last day of the PoFest due to a family matter.

Michelle Campagna is an MFA candidate at Sarah Lawrence College. After getting her B.A. from UCLA, she lived in Spain for two years, during which time she began the Translation Certificate Program through NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies. She is the current Managing Editor of LUMINA, Sarah Lawrence’s literary journal, and an interning curator for the MIXER Reading & Music Series. Her poems and translations have appeared in Lana Turner, Babel, Westwind, Autolycus, and online at sdtopic.com.

Ben Sherak is a 19-year-old writer from Brookline, MA. He has been writing poetry since the 6th grade, when he was asked to rearrange quotes from Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse, and crafted what several members of his class deemed “cool.” Thus launched an undying delight in putting sad and funny words together for applause and catharsis. Among his influences are Bob Hicok, Billy Collins, Octavio Paz, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Nas, and Spider-Man comics of all eras. He has spent summers at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio. His work has yet to be published. In addition, under the stage name Hunger, Ben released his debut rap album, Feast, to iTunes in June 2012. Hunger has a follow up full-length project, entitled Backbone, due March 2013. He has performed at several venues both in Boston and New York City. Ben attends Sarah Lawrence College, and is of the freshman class of 2016. He’s not internationally known, but he’s known to rock a microphone.

Dawn Lundy Martin earned a B.A. from the University of Connecticut, an M.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State University, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Martin’s first full-length collection, A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering (University of Georgia Press, 2007), was selected by Carl Phillips for the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Her second collection, Discipline, won the 2009 Nightboat Books Poetry Prize, chosen by Fanny Howe (Nightboat Books, 2011). She is also the author of two chapbooks, The Undress (Belladonna Books, 2006) and The Morning Hour (Poetry Society of America, 2003), which was selected by C. D. Wright for the Poetry Society of America’s National Chapbook Fellowship.

In 2004, she co-edited, alongside Vivien Labaton, The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism (Anchor Books, 2004), a collection of essays on modern theories of activism in America. Martin is co-founder of the Third Wave Foundation in New York, a national grant making organization led by young women and transgender youth, which focuses on social justice activism. She is also a member of the Black Took Collective, a group of experimental black poets embracing critical theory about gender, race, and sexuality.

She has been the recipient of two poetry grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and was awarded the 2008 Academy of American Arts and Sciences May Sarton Prize for Poetry.

She has taught at Montclair State University, The New School, and the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College. She is currently an assistant professor in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh.

Michael Bagwell is a first year poetry MFA candidate at Sarah Lawrence College, the founding editor of the new El Aleph Press, print designer for Ghost Ocean Magazine, and assistant editor for A cappella Zoo. His recent chapbook, Or Else They Are Trees, is a collaborative work with painter Rebecca Miller. He also directed a film-poem that ties in with the work, Constellations, viewable at Elalephpress.com. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bodega, Whiskey Island Magazine, Great Weather for Media, Dark Sky Magazine and Umbrella Factory Magazine, among others. His publications, design, and writing can be found at Bagwellpublishing.com.