At the Border of Wilshire & Nobody: Winner of the 2015 Howling Bird Press Poetry Prize

At the Border of Wilshire & Nobody, winner of the 2015 Howling Bird Press Poetry Prize, features California poet Marci Vogel's vivid explorations of memory, family, loss, and life across intersections of contemporary landscapes and cultures, at home and abroad. Divided into three sections, her book considers moments small and large, personal and universal, through poems of myriad forms, outlooks, and styles. Reflecting the curiosity and restlessness of their itinerant author, Vogel's poems observe quiet moments amid larger spaces, domestic and foreign, offering readers extraordinary insights into seemingly ordinary lives and times. With keen eye and playful ear, Marci Vogel engages and embraces the world in spirited, loving, grace-filled fashion. An impressive debut collection, At the Border of Wilshire & Nobody was selected as the inaugural book published by Howling Bird Press of Minneapolis.

Marci Vogel, winner of the 2015 Howling Bird Press Poetry Prize, was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Her poems, essays, and translations have appeared in FIELD, Poet Lore, Plume, Jacket2, and Drunken Boat, among others. A first-generation college student, she is currently a doctoral candidate in the Creative Writing and Literature Program at the University of Southern California. A long-time writer of prose who began writing poetry in her forties, Vogel has earned nominations for the Rona Jaffe Writers' Award, the "Best New Poets" anthology, the AWP Intro to Journals Project, and the Pushcart Prize. Her translation from French into English of Andrée Chedid's 1956 poetry sequence, "In the Noon of Contradictions," was selected for the 2014 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize.