Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Directors

DeWitt Henry

Peter O'Malley

Coordinating Editors for This Issue

Jane Shore

Ellen Wilbur

Managing Editor

Susannah Lee

CONTRIBUTORS

Julie Agoos has work forthcoming in
Crazy Horse. Her poems have appeared in
Antaeus, The Antioch Review, and
Quarry West. She teaches writing in Baltimore.

Debra Allbery is an Ohio native, received an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa, and has had poems in
Crazy Horse, The Missouri Review, Ironwood and others.

Marguerite Guzman Bouvard is professor of Political Science at Regis College where she also teaches poetry workshops. Her book,
Journeys Over Water was winner of the Quarterly Review of Literature Contest and appeared in 1982.

Richard Cecil will receive an MFA from Indiana University this May. His first book,
Einstein's Brain, was the 1984 Utah University Press Poetry Series selection.

Carolyn Chute is a native Mainer and lives in Gorham with her husband Michael; her second novel,
The Metal Man, is in the works. Mark Doty has recent poems in
Crazy Horse, The Iowa Review, Mississippi Review and elsewhere. He lives in Boston.

Gerald Duff's
Indian Giver was published by Indiana University Press.

Lee Edelman teaches English at Tufts University. He was 1983 winner of
The Nation Discovery Prize.

Barbara Einzig is author of
Disappearing Work (The Figures Press). Forthcoming are
Robinson Crusoe and
One And All.

Joan Fiset teaches at the Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has published poems in
Poetry Northwest, The Seattle Review, Croton Review, Calyx, and
Blue Buildings.

Sandra Fouchée lives in Denver, Colorado where she will be artist in residence with Artreach in 1985.

Patricia Goedicke teaches poetry at the University of Montana in Missoula. Her most recent book of poems,
The Wind of Our Going, will be out from Copper Canyon Press early in 1985.

Barry Goldensohn teaches poetry at Skidmore College and is author of
Uncarving The Block (VT. Crossroads, 1978).

Lorrie Goldensohn's book,
The Tether, was published by L'Epervier Press in 1983. She teaches at Vassar College.

Albert Goldbarth has just completed a year writing on a Guggenheim Fellowship and is returning to teach at the University of Texas. His most recent volume of is
Original Light: New & Selected Poems 1973-1983 (Ontario Review Press).

Linda Gregerson is the author of
Fire in the Conservatory, a collection of poems. Her reviews have appeared in
Parnassus and
Poetry.

David Guss is an ethnographer, translator and poet. His most recent books of translations are
Watunna: an Orinocan Creation Cycle (North Point Press) and
The Selected Poems of Vincente Huidobro (New Directions).

Marilyn Hacker's fourth collection of poetry,
Assumptions, will be out from Knopf in the Spring of 1985. She is the editor of
13th Moon, a feminist literary magazine, and lives in New York City with her daughter, Iva.

James Baker Hall's first book of poetry,
Her Name, was published by Pentragram. His work has recently appeared in
Poetry, Ironwood, Paris Review, Poetry Northwest, Chariton Review and elsewhere.

Charles O. Hartman has published
The Pigfoot Rebellion (Godine),
Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody (Princeton), and recently completed
Downfall of the Straight Line. He has an NEA fellowship for 1984 and is working on a third book of poems as well as a book on poetry, jazz and song, voice and improvisation.

Gwen Head's second book of poems,
The Ten Thousandth Night, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. She is the publisher and editor of Dragon Gate Press and lives in Seattle, Washington.

DeWitt Henry teaches at Emerson College.

Barbara Helfgott Hyett teaches writing at Boston University, and was a 1984 recipeint of the Massachusetts Artist Fellowship in Poetry. Her work has appeared in
The New Republic, Poetry Northwest, and the
Massachusetts Review.

Joyce James teaches in Houston, Texas. She won the Academy of American Poets Award in 1983, and her work has appeared in
Tendril, the Missouri Review, and is forthcoming in
Crazy Horse.

Maxine Kumin's most recent collection of poems,
Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief, is a Penguin paperback.

Judith Leet has recently published poems in
Poetry, and an article in
Radcliffe Quarterly. She works as an editor for D.C. Heath.

Richard LeMon has spent three of the last four years in the Orient. He has just returned from a year in The People's Republic of China.

Mekeel McBride's second book,
The Going Under of the Evening Land, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 1982. She was a visiting professor at Princeton University last spring and is currently teaching at University of New Hampshire.

Gardner McFall's poetry has appeared previously in
Ploughshares. She lives and works in New York City.

Gail Mazur is the author of
Nightfires. Her second book of poetry,
The Pose of Happiness, will be out from Godine in 1985.

Michael Milburn works in the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard.

Roger Mitchell will have a new book of poems out soon from Cleveland State.

Carol Muske's new book of poems,
Wyndmere, will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in March of 1985. She is presently teaching at the University of Southern California.

Liza Nelson lives in Atlanta Georgia. This is her fourth published poem.

Paul Nelson has work forth-coming in
Poetry, Tendril, and
The Black Warrior Review.

Carole Oles has published two books of poetry,
The Loneliness Factor (1979) and
Quarry (1983).
Night Watches: Inventions of the Life of Maria Mitchell will be out from Alice James Books in the Fall of 1985. Linda Pastan's
PM/AM: New and Selected Poems was published by Norton in 1982. Her poem in this issue is from a new manuscript,
A Fraction of Darkness.

Joyce Peseroff is the editor of
Robert Bly: When Sleepers Awake (U. of Michigan Press) and author of
The Hardness Scale (Alice James Books).

Joel Rosenberg teaches Hebrew Literature and Judaic Studies at Tufts University. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in
Response, Moment, Midstream, and the anthology
Voices Within The Ark by Avon Books.

Mark Rudman's recent books include a volume of poems,
In The Neighboring Cell, a critical study of Robert Lowell, and a translation of Pasternak's
My Sister-Life.

Tom Sleigh's book of poetry,
After One, was published by Houghton Mifflin. He teaches at Brandeis University.

Elizabeth Socolow is founding member of the U.S. 1 Poets' Cooperative. Her poems have been published in
The Berkeley Poet's Cooperative, Pudding, Fellowship in Prayer, and
Ploughshares.

Maura Stanton teaches in the MFA Program at Indiana University.
Cries of the Swimmer, a book of poems, was published in 1984 (Univ. of Utah).

Thomas Swiss has published criticism in
The Sewanee Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Modern Poetry Studies and elsewhere. He was awarded an NEA fellowship in 1984 and teaches at Drake University. Stephen Tapscott is the author of
Penobscot: Poems (Pym-Randall Press, 1983) and of
American Beauty (Columbia Univ. Press, 1984).

Constance Urdang's book of poems,
Only The World, was published in the Pitt Poetry Series. She divides her time between St. Louis and San Miguel de Allende.

Peter Waldor studies with Philip Levine and Jane Shore at Tufts University. This is his first published poem.

John Woods teaches at Western Michigan University. His recent collections of poems include
The Valley of Minor Animals (1982), and
Salt Stone, forthcoming from Dragon Gate Press.