Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball

Team Roster

211 Team Roster COACH TODD DAVIS is the author of four books of poems—THE LEAST of These (2010), Household of Water, Moon, and Snow: The Thoreau Poems (2010), Some Heaven (2007), and Ripe (2002)—and coeditor of Making Poems: 40 Poems with Commentary by the Poets (2010). His poetry has been featured on the radio by Garrison Keillor, on The Writer’s Almanac, and by Marion Roach on The Naturalist’s Datebook, as well as by Ted Kooser in his syndicated newspaper column American Life in Poetry. His poems have won the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and have appeared in such journals and magazines as Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Iowa Review, North American Review, Indiana Review, Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, West Branch, River Styx, Arts & Letters, Quarterly West, Green Mountains Review, Nimrod, Sou’wester, and Poetry East. He teaches creative writing and environmental studies at Penn State University’s Altoona College. 212 Team Roster PLAYERS Therese Becker’s poetry, essays, journalism, and photography have been widely published in various literary journals, newspapers, magazines and anthologies, including Poetry East, Beloit Poetry Journal, DoubleTake, New York Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Witness, Contemporary Michigan Poetry: Poems from the Third Coast, and The Anthology of Magazine Verse. A chapbook of her poetry and photography, The Fear of Cameras, was published by Ridgeway Press. Patricia Clark is Poet-in-Residence and Professor in the Department of Writing at Grand Valley State University. She is the author of three books of poetry: She Walks into the Sea (2009), My Father on a Bicycle (2005), and North of Wondering (1999). Her poetry has appeared in magazines such as Atlantic Monthly, Slate, Poetry, Mississippi Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Northwest Review, and North American Review. She has also coedited an anthology of contemporary women writers called Worlds in Our Words. Her chapbook of poems, Given the Trees, is one of the initial four in a series from the American Land Publishing Project. Clark’s work has been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily; she has won the Gwendolyn Brooks Prize twice, Mississippi Review’s Poetry Prize; and has been honored as Second Prize winner in the 2005 Pablo Neruda / Nimrod International Journal Poetry competition. The recipient of an Artist Grant from ArtServe Michigan, Clark was invited with two other poets to open the Library of Congress’s noon reading series in Washington, D.C., in fall 2005. Clark served as Poet Laureate of Grand Rapids, Michigan, from 2005 to 2007. Jim Daniels is the winner of the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize for his book Revolt of the Crash Test Dummies (2007). Two other books were published in 2007, his third collection of short fiction, Mr. Pleasant, and his eleventh book of poems, In Line for the Exterminator. In 2005, Daniels wrote and produced the independent film, Dumpster, which appeared in more than a dozen film festivals , and published Street, a book of poems accompanying the photographs 213 Team Roster of Charlee Brodsky. His most recent book of poems is Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry (2011). He is the winner of the Tillie Olsen Prize, the Brittingham Prize for Poetry, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His poems have appeared in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. He is the Thomas Stockman Baker Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, where he directs the Creative Writing Program. Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. She is Mojave and Pima. She was a member of the 1997 NCAA Division I Finalist women’s basketball team at Old Dominion University. After playing professional basketball in Europe and Asia, she returned to Old Dominion where she completed her MFA in 2007. She has poetry and fiction published in the Iowa Review, Nimrod, Crab Orchard Review, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Narrative, and others. She lives in Surprise, Arizona, where she teaches, sells snow cones, and conducts plyometric and agility training camps. Stephen Dunn is the author of fifteen books of poetry and two of prose. His Different Hours was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2001, and his two most recent books are What Goes On: Selected & New Poems 1995–2009 and Here and Now: Poems, both from Norton. His awards included the Academy Award in Literature...