Contributors' Notes
MASTHEAD
Directors
DeWitt Henry
Peter O'Malley
Coordinating Editor for This Issue
Seamus Heaney
Managing Editor
Susannah Lee
CONTRIBUTORS
William Aarnes has poems forthcoming in
The South Carolina Review, and
Swallow's Tale. He teaches at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina.
Stephen Ajay's second collection of poems,
The Whales Are Burning, will be published by New Rivers Press sometime in 1984. His work has appeared in
The Paris Review, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Now, and other journals.
Alexander Albertus, who lives in Mill Valley, California, previously appeared in
Ploughshares 7/1.
Christopher Benfey's study of Emily Dickinson will be published soon by the University of Massachusetts Press.
Sven Birkerts has published essays in
The Agni Review, The New York Review of Books and elsewhere. This essay is part of a longer work in progress.
Don Bogen's poems have appeared in
The New Republic, Kenyon Review, Paris Review, and other magazines. George Bogin's
In A Surf of Strangers was published by University Presses of Florida in 1981.
Phillip Booth is the author of
Before Sleep and
Available Light, both from Viking Press.
Marianne Boruch has had poems in
APR, Partisan Review, Ploughshares and others. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin/Madison. Marguerite Bouvard teaches Political Science at Regis College and her book of poems,
Journeys Over Water, won the Quarterly Review of Literature prize in 1982. Vincent Buckley teaches at Melbourne Univ. in Australia.
Hayden Carruth is the author of
Brothers I Loved You All, published by Sheep Meadow Press. He teaches at Syracuse University.
Cherry Conrad lives and works in Jackson, Michigan. She won the Abbie Copps Poetry Competition in 1982.
Robert Crum received an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and is currently at work on a Ph.D. at Iowa.
Susan Donnelly's first collection,
Eve Names The Animals, won the Samuel French Morse Prize, and will appear in the fall from Northeastern University Press.
Rita Dove has published two books,
The Yellow House on the Corner, and
Museaum, with Carnegie-Mellon University Press. She teaches at Arizona University and is currently on a Guggenheim Fellowship.
John Drury has been published in
Poetry, Shenandoah, The Antioch Review, and
The Iowa Review. He received a writing grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation earlier this year.
K.E. Duffin lives and writes in Cambridge, Mass.
Stephen Dunn's fifth collection of poems,
Not Dancing, will be published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press this spring. He teaches at Stockton State College in New Jersey.
Kathy Fagan's work has been published in
Poetry, The Antioch Review, and
The Midwest Review. She lives in Salt Lake City.
Robert Farnsworth's book,
Three or Four Hills and an Island, was published by Wesleyan University Press.
Cheri Fein has had poems published in
American Poetry Review, Partisan Review, Pequod and others. She has received grants from the N.E.A., and the New York State Council of the Arts.
Frederick Feirstein is the author of
Fathering (Applewood, 1982).
Brendan Galvin's books include
Winter Oysters (Georgia, 1983) and
Atlantic Flyway (University of Georgia Press, 1980.).
Rachel Giese teaches photography at Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, Mass., and has widely exhibited and published her photographs.
Barry Goldensohn is author of
Uncarving The Block (Vt. Crossoads, 1978). He teaches at Skidmore College and is at work on a new manuscript,
The Phemarrano.
Lawrence Goldenstein is currently teaching at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Judith B. Goodenough's first collection,
Dower Land, is just out from Cleveland State University Press.
Eamon Grennan teaches at Vassar College.
Marilyn Hacker is the editor of
13th Moon. Her books include
Taking Notice, Separations, and
Presentation Piece.
Mark Halliday, a frequent
Ploughshares contributor, now lives in Philadephia and teaches at University of Pennsylvania.
Thomas Heffernan is the author of
The Liam Poems.
Fanny Howe is a poet and novelist whose latest novel is
In The Middle of Nowhere.
Colette Inez is the author of
Alive and Taking Names and
The Woman Who Love Worms. She teaches poetry at Columbia University and The New School.
Joyce James lives and writes in Houston, Texas. Her poems recently won the Brazos Bookstore Prize for Poetry.
Shirley Kaufman's poems will be part of a new book,
Claims, to be published by The Sheep Meadow Press this summer.
George Lee lives in Michigan and is currently at work on a manuscript of poems.
Debbie LeMieux studied with Seamus Heaney at Harvard and lives in New York.
Miriam Levine's most recent book of poetry is
The Graves of Delawanna. Her
Guide to Writers' Homes will be published in the spring by Applewood Books.
Philip Mahony is a police officer in Brooklyn, N.Y. His poems have appeared in
Poetry East, Poetry Now, Hanging Loose and others.
David McKain is the author of two books of poetry,
The Common Life (Alicejames) and
In Touch (Ardis).
Roger Mitchell has published two books of poetry,
Letter From Siberia, and
Moving. He teaches at the University of Indiana in Bloomington.
Richard Moore presently teaches Liberal Arts at The New England Conservatory of Music. His poems and essays have appeared in
The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The Hudson Review, Poetry, and other magazines.
Edward Morin currently teaches at Wayne State University, and freelances for
The Detroit News. He has had work in
The Hudson Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Epoch and others.
Erika Mumford attended Radcliffe and Harvard, where she received a Ph.D. in Celtic Studies. She is the author of
The Door in the Forest (Green River Press).
Debra Nystrom's poems have appeared in
The American Poetry Review, Poetry East, The Antioch Review, Crazy Horse and other magazines.
Harvey Oxenhorn's work has recently appeared in
The Atlantic, New Letters, and
Boston Review. His book,
Elemental Things: The Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid, was recently published by the University of Edinburgh Press.
Anne Pitkin has published in
The Nation, The New England Review, Prairie Schooner and others. She lives in Bellevue, Washington.
Gibbons Ruark's most recent collection of poems,
Keeping Company, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Terry Savoie has had poems in
Poetry, The North American Review and
The Black Warrior Review.
James Schevill's book,
The American Fantasies: Collected Poems 1945-1981, was published by Princeton University Press.
Nancy Schoenberger works for the Academy of American Poets in New York. Her work has appeared in
APR, Antaeus, Poetry and other magazines.
Tamara Shulz-Kivi was a recipient of a Mass-Artists Foundation Fellowship in 1979. She is a landscape architect.
Jason Sommer's poems have appeared in
The New Republic and elsewhere. He teaches at Webster University in Missouri.
Macklin Smith is a medievalist at The University of Michigan. This is his first published work.
Elizabeth Spires' first collection,
Globe, was published by Wesleyan University Press in 1981. Her poems have appeared in
The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Poetry and
The Paris Review.
Kathleen Spivack's most recent book is
The Breakup Variations, published by Applewood in 1983. Her work has appeared in
The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and others.
Sue Standing is a 1984 N.E.A. grant recipient. Her collection of poems,
Deception Pass, is forthcoming from Alicejames Books. She teaches at Wheaton College.
Stephanie Strickland has had poems in
The Iowa Review, Porch, Agni Review, Tendril, and other magazines.
Robyn Supraner's poems have been published in
The Massachusetts Review, The Southern Poetry Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Chelsea, and elsewhere. She is also the author of many children's books.
Brian Swann is author of
The Middle of The Journey (U. of Al. Pr., 1982) and teaches at The Cooper Union in New York. Roberta Metz Swann's poems have recently appeared in
The North American Review, Descant, and
Kansas Quarterly.
Deborah Tall teaches at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is the author of
Ninth Life (Ithaca) and
Eight Colors Wide.
Robert Tracy's translation of Osip Mandelstam's
Stone was published by Princeton University Press.
John Unterecker currently teaches at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His poems have appeared in many journals including
The New Yorker and
Poetry.
Michael Van Welleghen's book,
More Trouble With The Obvious, won the Lamont Poetry Prize in 1980.
Marisella Viega was born in Cuba, raised in Miami, and is currently at work translating poems of the Cuban poet, Nancy Morejón.
Michael Waters teaches at Salisbury State College in Maryland. His collection of poems,
Not Just Any Death, was published by Boa Editions in 1979.
Stephen Watts has won several national poetry competitions in Britain. He lives in London.
Emily Wheeler has had poems in
Tar River Poetry and
Tendril.
Jane O. Wayne's forthcoming collection,
Looking Both Ways, won the Devins Award for Poetry from the University of Missouri Press. Her poems have been published in
Poetry, The American Scholar, The Massachusetts Review, and other magazines.
David Weiss has published poems in many magazines, including
The New Yorker, Poetry, Partisan Review, Ironwood, and
Antioch Review