AWP is pleased to announce the election of Judith Baumel as president of the organization's board of trustees. Baumel, a professor of English at Adelphi University, is a former director of the Poetry Society of America and founding director of the creative writing program at Adelphi. She is the author of the poetry collections Now,
The Kangaroo Girl, and the Walt Whitman Award-winning The Weight of Numbers. She has published in the
New Yorker, the New York Times, the Hudson Review, AGNI, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. Baumel has received awards from The New York Foundation for the Arts and Bronx Recognizes Its Own, as well as fellowships for residencies at Yaddo, Saltonstall, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and others.

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