Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Directors

DeWitt Henry

Peter O'Malley

Coordinating Editor for This Issue

Donald Hall

Managing Editor

Joyce Peseroff

CONTRIBUTORS

Ellery Akers is a free-lance writer and naturalist living in California. Her work has been published in the
Harvard Magazine, the
Northwest Review, the
Aspen Anthology, and
Intro 6.

Bob Arnold is a Vermont stonemason. His most recent book is
Where Rivers Meet, a selection of poems from 1974-1980, published by the Pentagram Press.

Wendell Berry gave up teaching at the University of Kentucky to devote full time to writing and editing. North Point Press has recently published two volumes of his prose, including
Re-Collected Essays, and a book of poems called
A Part.

Carol Bly published a book with Harper & Row last year called
Letters from the Country. Her short stories have appeared in
American Review, New Yorker.

Robert Bly lives in Minnesota, lectures widely, translates, writes prose - and writes poems. His most recent book is
The Man in the Black Coat Turns.

Philip Booth reports that it has recently occurred to him that he is closing in upon sixty.

Ray Carver teaches at Syracuse University. His two major collections of short stories are
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please, and
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.

Hayden Carruth will publish a book-length poem called
The Sleeping Beauty with Harper & Row this autumn.

Carolyn Chute lives with her husband Michael on Two Goose Farm in Gorham, Maine. One goose's name is Ollie. There is a gander named Omar.

Tom Clark is the author of many volumes of poetry, and prose books about baseball. These poems are from
Under the Fortune Palms, a forthcoming collection about southern California. He lives in Santa Barbara.

Robert Creeley's poems are taken from
Mother's Voice, published in a limited edition summer 1981 by Richard Aaron's
Am Here Books. The University of California Press will publish
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975, in the fall of 1982.

Robert Dana teaches at Cornell College. Two new books of his poems have recently appeared:
In a Fugitive Season, The Swallow Press 1980, and
What the Stones Know, Seamark Press 1981.

Rita Dove published
The Yellow House on the Corner with Carnegie-Mellon University Press in 1980. She teaches at Arizona State University, and has recently worked at Tuskegee Institute. Another book of poems,
Museum, will appear in the fall of 1982.

Russell Edson recently discovered, to his dismay, that his typewriter had developed worms.

Caroline Finkelstein has most recently appeared in
Poetry and
Tendril magazines. She lives in Rochester, Massachusetts.

Jon Galassi is poetry editor of the
Paris Review, and translates from the Italian.

Patricia Goedicke has published five books of poetry, most recently
The Dog that Was Barking Yesterday and
Crossing the Same River, both in 1980. Usually she lives in Mexico, but recently taught at Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Montana.

Linda Gregg's first book,
Too Bright To See, is published by Greywolf Press.

John Hawkes teaches at Brown University and was a nominee for the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Virginie: Her Two Lives has just appeared from Harper & Row.

James Hejna is completing his Ph.D. in molecular biology.

Dick Higgins was founder of
Fluxus, and participated in early Happenings. His work has ranged among the arts, and among mixtures of the arts. He has also written essays about the visual poems of George Herbert and other innovators.

Fanny Howe writes novels and poems, and starred in the Poets' Theater in Cambridge at an early age.

Cynthia Huntington lives in Provincetown and has published recent poems in
Harvard Magazine, Country Journal, and
Virginia Quarterly.

X. J. Kennedy edited an anthology of poems of hate and anger,
Tygers of Wrath, and has printed poems recently in the
Paris Review, the
Atlantic, Massachusetts Review, and
Times Literary Supplement.

Jane Kenyon has published a book of poems,
From Room to Room, with Alice James Books. She has recently published poems in
Ploughshares and the
New Republic, and will soon appear in the
Iowa Review, Harper's, and
The New Yorker.

Bob Kinsley was born and raised on a farm in northern Ohio. He has worked on a farm, in construction, in a nursing home, as a musician, and as director of a social center for former mental patients.

J. Laughlin is the founder and director of
New Directions whose last book of poems,
In Another Country, was published by City Lights.

Philip Levine lives in Boston, these years, every autumn. He finishes a new book called
Sweet Will.

Robert Louthan's
Shrunken Planets was published by Alice James Books in 1980. His poems have appeared in a variety of magazines including
The American Poetry Review.

Alice Lowenstein has published most recently in
Milkweed Chronicle in the United States, and in England in
Poetry Review, Bananas, and
Quarto.

Sandy Lyne teaches the writing of poetry at the University of Virginia; he has published poems in
American Poetry Review and most recently in
Virginia Quarterly Review and
Skyline.

Joe-Anne McLaughlin has worked with Hayden Carruth in the Syracuse University Creative Writing Program.

Wesley McNair has been publishing his poems in
Poetry and the
Atlantic Monthly. He teaches at Colby-Sawyer College in New Hampshire, and occasionally in Chile.

William Matchett teaches at the University of Washington, and has published two volumes of poetry,
The Water Ouzel, and
Fireweed.

Robert Mazzocco is author of a book of poems, called
Trader. He writes essays for the
New Yorker and for the
New York Review of Books.

Brad Morrow is editor of a new magazine called
Conjunctions, of which the first issue celebrated James Laughlin.

Howard Norman published two collections of translations from the Cree in the winter of 1982,
Where the Chill Came From (North Point Press) and
The Wishing Bone Cycle (Ross-Erikson).

Robert Ober worked for a while as the American editor of
Stand magazine. His first book of poems will come out this year under the Logan Elm Press imprint, at Ohio State University. He was born and raised in Centralia, Illinois.

Mary Oliver's fourth book was
Twelve Moons, with Atlantic-Little, Brown, which will bring out her next volume in the spring of 1983. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1980-81.

Gregory Orr has published three books of poems, most recently
The Red House with Harper & Row. He teaches at the University of Virginia, and he and his wife have recently acquired a daughter named Eliza.

Sue Owen's first book,
Nursery Rhymes for the Dead (Ithaca House), recently went into a second printing.

Robert Pack is making a cycle of dramatic monologues, for a book that will be called
Faces in a Single Tree. He is Abernathy Professor of Literature at Middlebury College and Director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
Waking to my Name, his new and selected poems, was published in 1980.

Joyce Peseroff edited
Ploughshares 8/1 and is editing a collection of essays about Robert Bly for the University of Michigan Press.

Bill Pruitt grew up in Missouri, has worked at a variety of jobs, and for the last seven and a half years has been Co-Manager of the Genesee Co-Op Food Store in Rochester, New York. He is married and has one daughter. He has published one chap book,
Ravine Street, with the White Pine Press.

David Ray is spending 1981-82 teaching in India. He edits
New Letters in Kansas City.

Michael Reck is author of
Ezra Pound, A Close-Up, which was published in whole or part, in five languages. His poetry has appeared in the
New Directions Annual and in
Denver Quarterly. He is translating the
Iliad "for speaking.".

John Ridland's latest book is
Elegy for my Aunt, Abbatoir Editions, 1981. He edited the
Little Square Review from 1966 to 1972.

Gibbons Ruark is author of two books of poems,
A Program for Survival and
Reeds.

Hilary F. Russell, Jr., lives with his family in southern Pennsylvaria. Other poems from his Lincolnsville series have appeared in
Beloit Poetry Journal, Yarrow, and the
Hollow Spring Review.

Wendy Salinger's
Folly River was a National Poetry Series book, and in 1981 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has been working at Yaddo and Ossabaw, writing poems, stories, plays, and editing a book of essays about Richard Wilbur.

Charles Simic's latest book is
Classic Ballroom Dances from Braziller.

Louis Simpson has written three books of criticism, most recently
The Company of Poets, one novel, one textbook, and many books of poems, the most recent of which is
Caviare at the Funeral.

W. D. Snodgrass is author of
Heart's Needle, After Experience, and
The Fuhrer Bunker, and teaches at the University of Delaware.

Ruth Stone has published three books of poems, most recently
Cheap. She is now working on a book called
Desperate Buses.

Richard Tillinghast has published two books of poems with the Wesleyan University Press, most recently
The Knife. He teaches at Harvard.

Tommy Neil Tucker is a filmmaker who lives near Chicago. He is at work on a volume of baseball stories, one of which appeared in
Sports Illustrated in the summer of 1981. This is his first published poem.

Ellen Bryant Voigt's first book of poems,
Claiming Kin, was published by the Wesleyan University Press. These poems are part of a recently completed manuscript,
The Forces of Plenty. She is a faculty member in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, North Carolina.

Richard Wilbur will collect some of his translations in
Moliere: Four Comedies later this year, when he will also bring out his translation of Racine's
Andromaque. A book of essays about Richard Wilbur, edited by Wendy Salinger, will appear in 1983.

Alan Williamson is a former editor of this magazine, and a frequent contributor. As a critic he is author of
Pity the Monsters: The Political Vision of Robert Lowell. His first book of poems will be published by Knopf in January of 1983.

Rob Wilson was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, and educated at the University of California at Berkeley. He teaches at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. His poems have appeared in
Poetry, Partisan Review and other journals.

David Young's most recent collection of poetry is
The Names of a Hare in English. With Stuart Friebert, he has edited the forthcoming
Longmans Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry.