The three most recent Dogfish Head Poetry Prize winning poets will be reading from and signing their work. They are:

Sherry Gage Chappelle, Dogfish Head Laureate for 2011. Sherry Gage Chappelle’s long-running roles have included English major, mother, grandmother, teacher, professor, native New Englander, student and singer. She loves puns, Tchaikovsky, Shakers, Salem witches, Kid’s Lit, Cole Porter, New Hampshire lakes, Maine Coon cats, yoga, ten year olds and too many writers to list. Poetry gets her up in the morning, but away from her desk she also is the dramaturge for the Clear Space Theater Company, the long running facilitator of the Browseabout Book Club, and a soprano in several local ensembles. Forces that have kept her pen in her hand include the supportive Delaware poetry community, the Delaware Division of the Arts, and her husband, Bruce.

Amanda Newell, Dogfish Head Laureate for 2010.  Amanda Newell teaches English at Gunston Day School in Centreville, Maryland and has previously been a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Paris, Creteil, France. Her work is published or forthcoming in Bellevue Literary Review, Tar River Poetry, Poet Lore, The Delmarva Review, and Little Patuxent Review. A contributor at the 2010 the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College, she lives on the Eastern Shore with her husband Jonathan and their two boys, Jake and Ben.

David P. Kozinski, Dogfish Head Laureate for 2009. David P. Kozinski’s poems have appeared in more than 20 literary publications in print and online and have  earned him numerous national and regional awards. He has read his work at  venues in Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey and was the guest poet on Berks County (Pa.) Television's Poets' Pause program in June 2009. His poems have earned him nominations for the prestigious Pushcart Prize by both the Schuylkill Valley Journal and Mad Poets Review. Kozinski was one of ten poets selected by internationally-renowned poet Robert Bly for his workshop sponsored by the American Poetry Review. His brother, internationally-acclaimed composer and conductor Stefan Kozinski, created a song cycle from five of his poems which debuted in Dessau, Germany in 2008. Kozinski has also read his poetry in conjunction with exhibitions of his visual art. In 2006, he unveiled 30 years’ worth of his abstract art at the Manayunk Art Center in Philadelphia and has since regularly staged exhibitions in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. Kozinski's artwork now hangs in private collections in eight states. In 2007 he received the Dr. Eugene J. Szatkowski Achievement Award for his poetry and visual art. Kozinski lives in Wilmington, Del. with his wife, actress and journalist Patti Allis Mengers.