Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Directors

DeWitt Henry

Peter O'Malley

Coordinating Editor for This Issue

Gail Mazur

Managing Editor

Joyce Peseroff

CONTRIBUTORS

JUDITH BAUMEL's poems have appeared in
The Nation, The Antioch Review, and
The New Republic. She teaches at Boston University and Harvard.

FRANK BIDART's third book,
The Sacrifice, will be published this fall by Random House. He is on the faculty of Wellesley College and has been teaching at University of California at Berkeley this spring.

MICHAEL COLLIER was a winner in 1981 of the YM-YWHA Discovery Prize. He has published poems in
The New Republic, The Nation and other magazines. He is living in Washington, D.C.

CHRISTOPHER JANE CORKERY has work appearing in
Poetry, Ironwood, and
The New England Review.

STEVEN CRAMER's poems have appeared in
Poetry, The Antioch Review, The Nation, Agni Review and other magazines. He received a grant from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation for 1983.

PETER DAVISON's latest book of poetry is
Barn Fever. He is an editor of the Atlantic Monthly Press and poetry editor of
The Atlantic. He lives in Gloucester.

STUART DISCHELL teaches at Boston University and has had poems published in
The Iowa Review, The Agni Review, The New England Review and other magazines.

ELSA DORFMAN's work is represented by the Lee Witkin Gallery in New York. Her book,
Elsa's Housebook, was published by David R. Godine, Publishers.

"School and Schoolmasters" is HILENE FLANZBAUM's first national publication.

ALICE FULTON was a fellow in 1982-83 at the Fine Arts Work Center in Province-town. Her first book,
Dance Script With Electric Ballerina, will be published as first selection in the AWP Series.

CELIA GILBERT is author of two books,
Queen of Darkness (Viking), and
Bonfire, published this spring by Alicejames.

RACHEL HADAS' second book,
Slow Transparency, will be published by Wesleyan in September. She has published poems in
The New Yorker, Grand Street, and
The Atlantic.

MARK HALLIDAY will be teaching at University of Pennsylvania. He has completed a manuscript of poems,
The Describers, and published a book-length interview with Allen Grossman,
Against Our Vanishing (Rowan Tree Press).

EDWARD HIRSCH's book,
For The Sleepwalkers, was published recently by Alfred Knopf.

PHYLLIS JANOWITZ is author of
Rites of Strangers (Virginia) and
Visiting Rites (Princeton). She teaches at Cornell University.

DENISE LEVERTOV's most recent book of poems is
Candles to Babylon (New Directions). She has also published two books of essays with New Directions,
The Poet in the World and
Light Up the Cave.

MARGO LOCKWOOD is author of several books of poems, including
Temper (Alicejames). She is owner of The Horse-in-the-Attic Bookshop in Brookline.

GINNY MACKENZIE teaches at The School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. She has published poems in
The Nation, Shenandoah, Pequod and other magazines.

ALICE MATTISON lives in New Haven where she teaches at Albertus Magnus College and teaches writing to elementary school children. She has other poems recent or forthcoming in
Shenandoah, Embers, and
The Massachusetts Review. Her book of poems,
Animals, was published in 1980 by Alicejames.

MICHAEL MAZUR's paintings, pastels, prints and drawings are exhibited widely in the United States and Europe. He is represented by the Barbara Krakow Gallery in Boston and Barbara Mathes Gallery in N.Y. His monotypes illustrate
Les Fleurs du Mals, translated by Richard Howard (Godine).

JEREDITH MERRIN is a graduate student at University of California at Berkeley. She has published poems in
Poetry Northwest, Canto and
Occident.

FREDERICK MORGAN, editor of
The Hudson Review, is author of several books of poems, including
Death Mother and Other Poems, Northbook, and
Poems of the Two Worlds.

CAROL MUSKE is author of
Camouflage and
Skylight.

CAROLE OLES' second book,
Quarry (University of Utah Press), was published this spring. She teaches at University of Massachusetts-Boston and is on the staff at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.

STEVE ORLEN teaches in the writing program of University of Arizona in Tuscon. He is author of
Permission to Speak (Wesleyan) and
A Place at the Table (Holt, Rinehart & Winston).

LINDA PASTAN is author of several books, her most recent
PM/AM: New and Selected Poems, was published by W.W. Norton.

JOYCE PESEROFF received a grant from the Massachusetts Artist Foundation. University of Michigan Press will publish a collection of essays on Robert Bly of which she is the editor.

History of My Heart, ROBERT PINSKY's new book of poems, is due from Ecco in 1984. In addition to his books of poems,
Sadness and Happiness and
An Explanation of America, and his critical essay,
The Situation of Poetry, he is the translator of poems of CZESLAW MILOSZ, the Nobel Prize-winning poet, essayist and novelist.

ROBERT POLITO teaches in the English Department of Wellesley College. He has poems in
Ploughshares 5/2,
Ploughshares 7/2 and
The New Yorker.

L.M. ROSENBERG has published widely in various magazines. She teaches creative writing at SUNY-Binghamton, where she co-edits
MSS magazine.
At the Common Table is the title poem of her first manuscript of poems, which is looking for a publisher.

SCOTT REUSCHER grew up in Westerville, Ohio. His chapbook,
Lake Hope, was published by Porch Publications.

IRA SADOFF's novel,
Uncoupling, was published last year by Houghton Mifflin. He is author of three books of poems, the most recent
A Northern Calendar (Godine), and teaches at Colby College.

LLOYD SCHWARTZ, whose book of poems,
These People, was published by Wesleyan, is editor of
Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art (University of Michigan). He is classical music editor of
The Phoenix, has published articles in
Vanity Fair and
The Atlantic, and teaches at University of Massachusetts-Boston.

JANE SHORE's first book,
Eye Level, won The Juniper Prize. Her work in this issue is from a new manuscript of poems. She teaches at Tufts University.

MICHELLE BLAKE SIMONS is the Director of the MFA Writing Program at Warren Wilson College.

TOM SLEIGH's first book of poems,
After One, will be published by Houghton Mifflin. He lives in Cambridge.

JAMES TATE's new book of poems,
Constant Defender, will be published this fall by Ecco Press, which also published
Riven Doggeries and re-published his first book,
The Lost Pilot.

CONSTANCE URDANG's most recent book of poems is
The Lone Woman and Others (Pitt). She received the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award at N.Y.U.

ELLEN WITTLINGER, a playwright as well as a poet, is author of
Breakers (Sheep Meadow Press).

DAVID WOJAHN's
Icehouse Lights was published in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He is editor of
Crazy Horse and teaches in the writing program of University of Arkansas, Little Rock.