Phil Raisor, 36th Annual ODU Literary Festival

Phil Raisor is the author of Swimming in the Shallow End and Outside Shooter: A Memoir, and the editor of Tuned and Under Tension: The Recent Poetry of W. D. Snodgrass. His poetry and reviews have appeared in The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, 5AM, Poetry East, Tar River Poetry, Ascent , Poetry Northwest , Midwest Quarterly, Aethlon and Poet Lore. He was on the Board of Directors of the Associated Writers and Writing Programs and managing editor of New Virginia Review. Raisor is an emeritus professor of English at Old Dominion University