Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Directors

DeWitt Henry

Peter O'Malley

Coordinating Editors for This Issue

Richard Tillinghast

George Garrett

Managing Editor

Joyce Peseroff

CONTRIBUTORS

Tom Alderson is a native of east Tennessee. After graduating from Vanderbilt, he served as a paratrooper and as a Russian-speaking Army Intelligence officer. He is now in the School of the Arts at Columbia University, working with Stephen Koch and Richard Price, and he has an earned reputation as a very fine banjo-picker.

James Applewhite teaches at Duke University and also directs the Institute of the Arts there. In 1979 his
Following Gravity won the Associated Writing Programs' Contemporary Poetry competition. His new book of poems,
Foreseeing the Journey, was recently published by LSU Press.

Coleman Barks is from Chattanooga and teaches at the University of Georgia. His books include:
The Juice, Harper & Row, 1972;
We're Laughing at the Damage; New Words; and
Night &
Sleep: Versions of Rumi (with Robert Bly and John Moyne), 1981.

John Biguenet, an editor of the
New Orleans Review, teaches at Loyola University. He has recently published poetry, translations, and criticism in
The Georgia Review, North American Review, Poetry NOW, and
Translation Review.

David Bottoms' first book,
Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump, was chosen by Robert Penn Warren as winner of the 1979 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. His second book, also from Morrow, is
In a U-Haul North of Damascus. In addition to writing poetry Mr. Bottoms is a first-rate country musician.

Van K. Brock is co-director of the Writing Program at Florida State University. His recent books include
The Hard Essential Landscape and
The Window.

Turner Cassity was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1929. He is Collection Development Librarian for the Woodruff Library at Emory University and the author of a number of collections, including
Watchboy, What of the Night?, Steeplejacks in Babel, and most recently, a finely printed book from Symposium Press in Los Angeles,
The Defense of the Sugar Islands.

Fred Chappell's latest books are
Moments of Light, short stories, and
Midquest, a long poem. He has taught for years at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. "Ur-leid" means "Ur-sorrow" or "Ancient-World-Sorrow" and may be found in Rilke's
Duino Elegies.

Carroll Cloar, an artist living in Memphis, credits Shelby Foote with suggesting he turn "Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog" from a drawing into the painting which is reproduced on our cover. The title is taken from W.C. Handy's "Yellow Dog Blues," and the painting hangs in Brooks Memorial Gallery in Memphis.

Peter Cooley lives in New Orleans and teaches at Tulane University.

Carol Cox, who lives in Tougaloo, Mississippi, is the author of
Wood working and Places Near By and
The Water in the Pearl. Her poems have been included in an anthology of women poets called
Mountain Moving Day.

Jackson Davis was raised near Shipman, Virginia, attended the University of Virginia, and is currently living in Richmond.

James Dickey recently published a collection of essays,
Night Hurdling, and two small collections of poems,
False Youth: Four Seasons, and
Värmland, and Other Poems.

R.H.W. Dillard is a native of Roanoke, Virginia, and has for many years taught at Hollins College, where he directs the graduate program in creative writing. He is the author of four collections of poems and two novels.

Don Keck DuPree teaches English and works in the Development Office at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Reginald Gibbons, a native Texan, edits
TriQuarterly and is the author of
The Ruined Motel and
The Poet's Work, both from Houghton Mifflin.

James Baker Hall's first full-length book of poems,
Her Name, was published last year. Recent work has appeared in
Poetry and
The New Yorker. Mr. Hall is from Lexington, Kentucky, and teaches at the University of Kentucky. His second novel is forthcoming from the Fiction Collective.

Cathryn Hankla was born in Richlands, Virginia, on the first day of spring, 1958, in a snowstorm. She lives in Hollins, Virginia, and is married to R.H.W. Dillard. University of Missouri Press published her first book,
Phenomena, this spring.

William Harmon's six books include a study of Ezra Pound,
The Oxford Book of American Light Verse, and four volumes of poetry, the latest being
One Long Poem (LSU Press, 1982). See "Excerpts from 'The Awkward Book of American Literary Anecdotes'" in the Fall, 1982,
Sewanee Review, which he collaborated on with Louis D. Rubin.

William (Kit) Hathaway is not a Southerner at all, but he has taught for several years at LSU and endured the nightmarish climate there, and he assures us that for this occasion he is "happy to wear the grey." His most recent book is called
The Gymnast of Inertia (LSU, 1982).

Tom Hawkins lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he is an informational writer for the federal government. He attended the University of Illinois (Chicago Circle) and the University of Missouri, and after serving four years in the US Navy, he completed an MFA at UNC/Greensboro.

David Huddle teaches at the University of Vermont and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.

Andrew Hudgins is currently a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa. New poems by him can be seen in
The New Yorker, APR, Hudson Review, Southern Review, Poetry, and other magazines.

Edward P. Jones received his MFA in 1981 from the University of Virginia and is now an instructor there. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., he has worked as a writer and editor for a number of Washington public relations offices. His stories and articles have appeared in a variety of magazines, including and earlier story in
Ploughshares ("A Dark Night," 7/1).

Born and brought up in Miami, which was then "a sleepy, middle-sized Southern city," Donald Justice lived for years in New York, California, and the Midwest. Last fall he returned to Florida to teach at the University of Florida. His most recent book,
Selected Poems, won the Pulitzer Prize.

Charles A. Kilmer attended Columbia University and now lives in McLean, Virginia.

David Kirby was born in Baton Rouge and educated at LSU and Johns Hopkins. Since 1969 he has taught at Florida State. He has a recent book of poems,
Sarah Bernhardt's Leg, from Cleveland State University Press.

H.T. Kirby-Smith, in addition to having taught writing for years at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and having served as editor of the
Greensboro Review, has taught astronomy at UNC-G and is author of
U.S. Observatories, a selection of the Astronomy Book Club.

Yusef Komunyakaa's first book,
Lost in the Bonewheel Factory, was published by Lynx House in 1979. Wesleyan is bringing out his new book,
Copacetic, this fall. Mr. Komunyakaa teaches at the University of New Orleans.

Jeanne Larsen, who teaches at Hollins, is currently writing a translation and study of the poems of a medieval Chinese woman, Xue Tao. She is the author of
James Cook in Search of Terra Incognita (1978).

Everette Maddox works as a Poet in the Schools of New Orleans and at the Louisiana Maritime Museum. He is co-editor of the
Maple Leaf Rag and author of
The Everette Maddox Song Book.

Joseph Maiolo is a graduate, with a degree in Mathematics and Engineering, of the US Naval Academy who later did graduate work at Hollins and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. "Cumberland Spring" is excerpted from his new novel,
Princess of Baltimore. Mr. Maiolo is a native of southwest Virginia.

Frances Mayes lives in San Francisco, where she has been a director of the Poetry Center at SF State.

Heather Ross Miller of Badin, North Carolina, is the author of two collections of poetry, two volumes of stories, and four novels. Among her honors are two Creative Writing Fellowships from the NEA. She is married and is the mother of two children.

William Page edits the
Memphis State Review and has published poems in
The Southern Review, Poetry NOW, Three Rivers Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. He is the author of two books,
Clutch Plates and
The Gatekeeper.

Douglas Paschall, a former Rhodes Scholar from Sewanee and an Oxford D.Phil., has been in the Sewanee English faculty since 1971 and is now also an Associate Dean there. He has an essay in the current
Sewanee Review and was director in 1982 of the Cumberland Valley Writers' Conference.

Carol Poster is a dancer, choreographer, and a widely published poet, as well as a fiction writer. In addition she is a highly skilled computer expert who is now living and working at that craft in Salt Lake City.

Wyatt Prunty is the author of
The Times Between, from Johns Hopkins. He has been a visiting faculty member at Washington and Lee while on leave from Virginia Tech and is currently a Staff Associate at Bread Loaf. Mr. Prunty is a noted guitarist and balladeer.

A native Bostonian, Thomas Rabbitt has taught for years in the writing program at the University of Alabama and owns a horse farm out from Tuscaloosa. His latest book is
The Booth Interstate, from Knopf.

Bin Ramke is a former Yale Younger Poet, native Texan, who lives in Georgia.

Paul Ramsey is Poet-in-Residence at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, and the author of six books of poetry and three volumes of scholarship and criticism, including recent books on Dryden and Shakespeare. He is married to the artist Bets Ramsey, and they have four children.

Gibbons Ruark's books are
A Program for Survival and
Reeds. Johns Hopkins Press will bring out his third book,
Keeping Company, this fall.

Editor of
The Texas Review and Director of the Texas Reading Circuit, Paul Ruffin has published three collections of poetry and has edited two anthologies. He has taught at the University of Southern Mississippi and Mississippi State, and currently teaches at Sam Houston State University.

Roger Sauls lives and works in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He has recently published work in
The Carolina Quarterly, The Ohio Review, and
Plainsong.

Dave Smith's collection of poems,
In the House of the Judge, was recently published by Harper & Row. He lives in Richmond.

David Spicer is the editor of
raccoon and co-publisher of Raccoon-Books/ St. Luke's Press in Memphis.

Dabney Stuart's seventh book,
Common Ground, was published by LSU Press last fall. He was also a 1982 recipient of an NEA Literary Fellowship. He is currently on leave from Washington and Lee.

Eleanor Ross Taylor, who lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, is the author of three books of poetry. Though her output is somewhat small, she is known as one of the most distinctive poetic craftsmen in the country.

Henry Taylor's most recent publication is a huge map of the Loudoun Valley in Virginia. He is the author of
The Horse Show at Midnight, Breakings, An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards, and
Desperado. He lives in Lincoln, Virginia, and is a Quaker and a horseman.

Jeanie Thompson has published poems in
Antaeus, New England Review, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. A veteran of the New Orleans Poets-in-the Schools program, she currently teaches at St. Martin's Episcopal School. Her collection,
Tinder Dreaming of Smoke, has an eye out for a publisher.

David Tillinghast studied writing with James Dickey and George Garrett at the University of South Carolina and currently teaches at Clemson. His piece in this issue is excerpted from
Jane and I, a book that grew out of his experience as a homesteader in the wilds of British Columbia. He holds the world's record for tiger trout.

Ellen Bryant Voigt teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, North Carolina. Her poems have appeared recently in
The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Antaeus, and
Poetry. The Forces of Plenty, her second book of poems, was recently published by Norton. She grew up in Virginia.

Robert Penn Warren grew up in Kentucky and now lives in Connecticut. He and his wife, Eleanor Clark, have two children, Rosanna and Gabriel. Mr. Warren's fifteenth book of poetry,
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, is out this year.

Director of the Writing Program at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Tom Whalen founded and edited
The Lowlands Review. He has published poems, stories, and translations in
Chelsea, Chicago Review, North American Review, Paris Review, and elsewhere.

Allen Wier is the author of a novel,
Blanco, and a collection of stories,
Things About to Disappear. His new novel,
Departing As Air, will be published by Simon and Schuster in September. He teaches at the University of Alabama.

Miller Williams is a native of Hoxie, Arkansas, winner of the Prix de Rome, editor, professor, translator, prolific poet. He teaches at the University of Arkansas.

C.D. Wright is from Harrison, Arkansas, and lives in San Francisco. She published her fourth collection of poetry,
Translations of the Gospel Back into Tongues, last year and is the editor of Lost Roads Publishers.

Carolyne Wright teaches creative writing at William Jewell College in Missouri. Her second book of poetry,
Premonitions of an Uneasy Guest, appeared last year. Recent and forthcoming publications include
The Massachusetts Review, American Poetry Review, MS. Magazine, and
Prairie Schooner.

Charles Wright, co-winner of this year's American Book Award, is from Pickwick Dam, Hardin County, Tennessee, and grew up in Tennessee and North Carolina. From 1957-61 he was in Army Intelligence, stationed for most of this time in Verona, Italy. He has recently moved from Laguna Beach, California, to Charlottesville, Virginia, where he will be teaching at the University.

Marlene Youmans recently recently taught part-time at Hollins and was a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, where "The Cherry Trees" was written. She lives in the Roanoke Valley.