Unfortunately the manager of the Review, Dick Persson, was secretive and would not publish the Review. The National Housing Policy Review (Staples Review) of 1989 commissioned some of the best housing research ever done in Australia, from Judy Yates, Marcus Spiller and others. The study provides all available information on the exporting sector and the mode of operation of exporting firms, many of whom were (grudgingly) interviewed, It has a large Appendix listing the characteristics and history of all Australian companies involved n export in this sector. Material produced in Australia however, is only 'dumped' abroad when there is a surplus, because of the far greater competition and lower profits in international markets. Australian companies control cement and concrete production in several US states. Construction materials firms on the contrary have been aggressive in expanding abroad usually through local joint ventures. Residential building abroad is done by construction companies who do not do residential building in Australia, as they state they cannot compete against efficient small builders. Very few housing firms operate in more than one state, and none abroad. Militello is the founding director of the creative writing program at River Valley Community College in New Hampshire.Probably the only study ever done on trade and competitiveness in residential building services and building materials in Australia. She has received grants and fellowships from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Jennifer Militello is the author of three collections of poetry, including Body Thesaurus(Tupelo Press, 2013), named by Marilyn Hacker as a finalist for the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and Flinch of Song (2009), winner of the Tupelo Press First Book Award.

She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. Matthea is a contributing editor for jubilat, Meatpaper, and BOMB. Matthea Harvey is the author of three books of poetry, including her latest, Modern Life (Graywolf, 2007), which earned her the 2009 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book. He is also the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and he is a CantoMundo fellow. Corral’s first book, Slow Lightning, won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. The Academy of American Poets Summer Poetry Reading Series is being co-sponsored with New York Public Library on August 13 and September 10, 2013.Įduardo C.

Schwarzman Building to share their poems. Corral, Matthea Harvey, and Jennifer Militello converge in the Margaret Liebman Berger Forum of The New York Public Library's Stephen A.

Modern Life by Matthea Harvey