SHORT STORIES AND POEMS ABOUND WITH CWG AUTHOR
For CWG member Arthur Powers, 2011 has been a productive year. Two of his short stories, Thorn and Carla have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Thorn by Prime Number Magazine and Carla by Dappled Things. The Pushcart Prize has accepted nominations from small book press editors and small magazines since 1976 for publication in their yearly anthology, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses Series. Considered “the most honored literary project in America,” hundreds of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry and essays have been represented in the pages of the annual collections.
Besides those nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Powers has had other short stories published this year. Two Foxes and Four Liters of Wild Honey were accepted for the anthology Being Human: Call of the Wild (Editions Bibliotekos, January 2012). Being Human: Call of the Wild will be available in January 2012 at EBibliotekos.
Another short story, Come Into My House And Stay…., was published in Dappled Things. Dappled Things is a literary magazine dedicated to publishing works by emerging writers to “engage the world from a Catholic perspective.”
Power’s poem “February” was selected for the anthology Imago Dei: Poems from Christianity and Literature (Abilene Christian University Press, February 2012). A collection of the best poems that have been published over the past sixty years in Christianity and Literature, Imago Dei brings together a collection of poets “who merge faith, literature, and art as a form of worship and inspiration.” Imago Dei will be available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and through Abilene Christian University Press.
Powers also had four poems published in Hotmetal Press and a review published in Catholic Fiction.
Arthur Powers was born 1947 in Evanston, Illinois, and graduated for Shimer College (1967), Harvard Law School (1975), and earned his Ph.D. at the University of New Hampshire (2010) in natural resources policy in sustainable rural development. Powers served with the Peace Corps in Brazil 1969-74 and was an international lawyer in U.S. and Brazil from 1975-84. From 1985-92, Powers was a lay missioner with the Franciscans and Maryknoll in the Brazilian Amazon, became Director Catholic Relief Services in Brazil, 1992-94; Director USAID POMMAR Program, 1994-96; and General Counsel in Brazil for Raytheon, 1997-2006. Since 2006, Powers has been Vice President for Raytheon JPS Communications (Raleigh NC) and a consultant with Consensus Building Institute since 2009 with projects in Mozambique & Brazil.
Powers writing awards include the Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship in Fiction (1984), the Catholic Press Association annual awards for short fiction (1st place 1995, 2nd place 1998, 3rd place 2006), 2nd place in 2008 Tom Howard Fiction Contest, and a finalist in Press 53 2011 Open Fiction Awards.
His writing has appeared in (among others) America, Americas Review, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Christianity & Literature, Critic, Dappled Things, Heartlands Today, Hiram Poetry Review, Kansas Quarterly, Ligourian, Our Sunday Visitor, Papyrus, Rattapallax, Roanoke Review, St. Anthony Messenger, South Carolina Review, Southern Poetry Review, Southwest Review, Texas Quarterly, Windhover, Worcester Review, and several anthologies.
He is married since 1973 to Brenda King-Powers, has two daughters, and one grand daughter. Powers belongs to the St. Raphael Parish in Raleigh,NC. From 1981 to 1985 he and his wife were a Marriage Encounter presenting couple and he is active in supporting and advising international development projects.
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