Contributors' Notes

EDITORIAL BOARD

Coordinating Editors:

DeWitt Henry

Peter O'Malley

Editorial Staff:

George Kimball

Andrew Littauer

Kip Crosby

Bruce Bennett

Steven Sands

Norman Klein

Art Director:

David Omar White

Business Manager:

Tom Hargadon

CONTRIBUTORS

From Outside U.S.A.

HUGH MAXTON has a book of poems published by Macmillan Co., attended Wesley College, Dublin, went on to Trinity College and graduated in 1970.

HAYDEN MURPHY, born in 1946, has published in Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Austria, Germany and U.S.A., is editor of "Broadsheet," author of
Poems (1965), and "Poet in Structure" (a critical analysis of John Behan). Presently preparing a new collection of poems.

THOMAS REDSHAW is a Dublin poet, whose submissions here are part of a sequence in progress called
Nose Poems, concerning "the exploits and influences of a symbolic, surreal personage, Nose, who was born during Cambodia Week, 1971, and has grown to full UBU-strength . . . `Upon Going to Prison' constructs one of a number of possible portraits of Nosemen - this one brought to `justice'?"

THOMAS TESSIER, born 1947, is an American now living in Dublin. He has written two small collections of poetry:
How We Died (New Writer's Press, Dublin, 1970) and
In Sight of Chaos (Turret Press, London, 1971).

NICOLAS BORN, a contemporary German poet, is author of a book of poems,
Marktlage; studied at Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1969; and presently lives in Berlin. (See note on George Kimball, his translator.)

ROBERTO SANESI, a 41-year old Italian poet and translator (the official editor and translator of T. S. Eliot in Italy), has published many books of poems, including his selected poems in a Feltrinelli edition in 1966. (See note on William Alexander, his translator.)

From U.S.A. (Outside Boston Area)

TED BERRIGAN, one of the most prominent figures on the Lower East side (NY) during the early 60's, has taught at Iowa, Michigan, and Yale, and published
The Sonnets (Grove) and many other books. "A real sucker in a poker game," according to George Kimball.

DAVID IGNATOW teaches at York College, City University of New York, co-edits
Chelsea, and has published numerous volumes of poetry, including
Poems 1934-69 (Wesleyan UP, 1970). Other fragments from his
Journals recently appeared in
The New York Quarterly (Spring, 1971).

ROSE GRAUBART IGNATOW, whose portrait of her husband appears with his Journal Excerpt, has published both drawings and prose in several little magazines and is one of the editors of
Chelsea.

ANSELM HOLLO, born in Finland (1934), was the first poet to translate Yevtushenko, Kirsanov, Voznesensky et. al. into English (
Red Cats, City Lights Books, 1962). The author of twelve books of poems and translations, he teaches at the Writer's Workshop at Iowa.
Maya: Works 1959-69 is his latest book to date.

JOSEPHINE CLARE has a book of poems,
Deutschland (1970). An actress before marrying Anselm Hollo, now and then she still appears on stage.

HARRIS SCHIFF has been active on the Lower East Side poetry scene for years, published in
The World, Paris Review, etc.

ANNE WALDMAN ran St. Marks Poetry Project in NYC for three years; edited
Angel Hair and Angel Hair Books, also
The World and
The World Anthology (Bobbs-Merrill, 1969); published in
The Paris Review, Poetry, etc.

CLAUDIA MENZA lives in NYC, where she is an Assistant Editor for
The Evergreen Review.

DAVID BALL has his PhD from the Sorbonne, teaches at Smith College, and is the author of a book of poems.

CYNTHIA HOUSH, a Ploughshares First and recent graduate of Oberlin College, writes and lives in Chicago.

EDWARD DENSMORE, age 30, lives in Easton, New Hampshire, where he is Librarian of the Franconia College Library. "The Haitian Campaign" is from an unpublished collection of stories titled
Tales of a Polyphrenic.

DAVID LENSON, a Ploughshares First, is currently completing a PhD in Comp. Lit. at Princeton, and will be teaching at U. Mass. (Amherst) this fall.

JOHN MORITZ edits
Tansy; until recently operated a bookstore of the same name; and lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

From the Boston Area:

SIDNEY GOLDFARB has taught at MIT and Harvard and published two books of poems,
Speech, For Instance (1969) and
Messages (1971, both with Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

DAVID BERMAN practices law in Medford, has published poems in
The Advocate, The Advocate Century Anthology, Currents, Identity, Counter Measures, and elsewhere.

ANNE SHAFTEL, a Ploughshares First, simply describes herself as a world traveller.

WILLIAM CORBETT teaches at Emerson College, has poems published in
Sumac, Boston Arts, and a pamphlet,
Sunsets, from the Barn Dream Press.

NORMAN SHAPIRO teaches French at Wesleyan. His translation of
Four Farces by George Feydeau (U. of Chicago, 1970) was nominated for the National Book Award. Most recently he has edited and translated an anthology of modern black poets writing in French,
Negritude (October House, 1971) and has a collection of medieval French love guides,
Comedy of Eros (U. of Illinois, 1971) forthcoming. The fables published here form part of a volume now in preparation.

TOM LUX has a pamphlet published by the Pym-Randall Press and poems in several magazines, including
Field. A major collection of poems is forthcoming from the Pym-Randall Press. He edits the Barn Dream Press and is Managing Editor of
The Iowa Review.

NORMAN KLEIN has an M.F.A. from Iowa, poems published in several magazines, a completed novel, and teaches writing at Simmons College.

BRUCE BENNETT has taught at Oberlin College, is one the editorial staff of
Field, has had poems in
The Nation and other magazines, and now lives, writes and teaches part-time in the Cambridge area.

GEORGE KIMBALL now writes for
Rolling Stone and is a Contributing Editor of
The Phoenix and will be editing
Ploughshares #2. Formerly his work has appeared in
The Paris Review, Chelsea, Scanlan's Monthly, etc.

DAVID GULLETTE teaches at Simmons, lives in Cambridge, is active in the local theater, writes verse and translations, and is a Ploughshares First.

CARTER WILSON has published two novels,
Crazy February and
I Have Fought the Good Fight, and just sold a third, as yet titleless. He's also written a book of children's stories,
On Thin Ice; has taught at Harvard, and is now teaching at Tufts.

CATHERINE DEXTER, a Radcliffe graduate ('63), has studied with Theodore Morrison and R.V. Cassill, and is presently a free lance editor and writer. Formerly she has worked for the Harvard U. Press and Gambit Press.

WILLIAM ALEXANDER has taught at Harvard, will be teaching at Michigan this fall. His translations of Sanesi appeared in
New Directions Anthology (1969), and as a book,
Information Report from Grossman. His work has also appeared in
New Directions and
Harvard Magazine. In progress is a critical study of William Dean Howells.

PAUL HANNIGAN has published
Laughing and a Pym-Randall pamphlet. A new book,
Carnations, is due from the Barn Dream Press this fall.

WILLIAM DORESKI has poems published in
The Antioch Review, Poetry of the North East, Trace, The Advocate and elsewhere. Also a book,
To Face the Sea, and a pamphlet from the Barn Dream Press.

WILLIAM PIRONE, by profession a blues musician, 26, has been in and out of colleges here and abroad since 1963, travelled widely. Currently he's working for "Sweet Pie" and doing studio work. A Ploughshares First.

ANDREW LITTAUER, a Princeton graduate ('66), who was living, writing, and helping to edit Ploughshares in Cambridge, has recently moved back to New Jersey to pursue his craft.

ANDY AND CHRISTINA WYLIE. Andy's translations from the Italian are well known. He and Christina, until recently, operated
The Red Book, a gathering place for Cambridge poets, and promoted a highly successful series of local readings.

BILL COSTLEY lives with his wife, Joan, and two children in Linwood Place; edits a Cambridge Model Cities community magapaper, the
Communicator, and has published in small press magazines, underground newspapers and a few local college quarterlies. He prides himself on writing a poetry that "begins in working-class experience" and "is different from the dilletantism of the middle-class."

GEORGE ANTHONY, an elderly, established poet, has published widely in
Open Places, Partisan Review, The Atlantic, and elsewhere, and has written several books, including
The Scholar Dunce, Toys in Blood, and
My Italies. He lives in Cambridge and spends his summers in Maine.

SUSAN SMYLY was born in Detroit, lives in Boston, has held a Prix de Rome and a Fulbright, teaches at Boston University and is going to Italy next year.

ART WOOD teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design.

DAVID OMAR WHITE has art work appearing regularly in
The Atlantic, The Phoenix, Boston Globe, Ripon Forum, Harper's and elsewhere. He has also written two children's books,
I Know a Giraffe and
Elizabeth's Shopping Spree (both from Knopf) and illustrated several others.

DEWITT HENRY is (as yet) a jobless PhD from Harvard, where he has taught fiction writing; presently he's finishing a novel,
The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts, and editing
Ploughshares #1.