Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Coordinating Editor for This Issue

Marilyn Hacker

Executive Director

DeWitt Henry

Managing Editor / Associate Fiction Editor

Don Lee

Poetry Editor for This Issue

Jennifer Rose

Associate Poetry Editor

Joyce Peseroff

Assistant Editor

David Daniel

Editorial Assistant

Elizabeth Detwiler

Copy Editor

Kathleen Anderson

Founding Publisher

Peter O'Malley

Thanks this issue to:

Colleen Westbrook, our intern Ivan Kreilkamp, and our poetry readers Rafael Campo, Tom Laughlin, Bill Keeney, Anne Friedman, Doina Iliescu, Christopher Wysocki, Karyn Levitt, and Laura Conklin.

CONTRIBUTORS

Nell Altizer's first book of poems,
The Man Who Died En Route, won the 1988 Juniper Prize and was published this year by the University of Massachusetts Press. She teaches at the University of Hawaii.

Robert R. Anderson is a recent MFA graduate of the University of Washington. His work has appeared in
Threepenny Review, James White Review, and
Ploughshares. He works at
The Weekly, a Seattle newspaper.

Lee Harlin Bahan teaches creative writing at Indiana University. Poems and translations of poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in
The Laurel Review, The Reaper, The Cape Rock, Blue Unicorn, Crab Creek Review, and
Painted Bride Quarterly, among others. Her first chapbook,
Migration Solo, was published in early 1989 by The Writers' Center Press of Indianapolis.

Judith Barrington is the author of two volumes of poetry:
Trying to Be an Honest Woman (1985) and
History and Geography (1989), both published by The Eighth Mountain Press. She is co-founder of The Flight of the Mind Summer Writing Workshop for Women.

Monica Barron was last year's Elliston Fellow in Poetry at the University of Cincinnati. She is a member of the English Faculty of Northeast Missouri State University, and an editor of
Cincinnati Poetry Review.

Robin Becker's book,
Backtalk, was published by Alice James Books in 1982. She is a Lecturer in the Writing Program at M.I.T., where for over a decade, she has taught poetry and fiction writing courses. She serves as Poetry Editor for
The Women's Review of Books.

Sophie Cabot Black's work has appeared in
The Atlantic, Field, and
Agni, and is forthcoming in
The Partisan Review. In 1988 she received the Grolier Poetry Prize and a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Maureen Bloomfield's poems have appeared in
The Nation, Poetry, Shenandoah, and other magazines. She lives in Cincinnati.

George Bogin (1920-1988) was the author of
In a Surf of Strangers and
Selected Poems and Reflections on the Art of Poetry by Jules Supervielle. His work appeared twice before in
Ploughshares and in
The American Poetry Review, The Nation, New Letters, and other journals.

Eavan Boland, 1989 writer-in-residence at Trinity College, Dublin, recently published
Selected Poems (Carcanet) and is preparing a new volume called
Outside History.

Bruce Bond's work has recently appeared in
The Denver Quarterly, Southwest Review, The Georgia Review, and
Poetry Northwest. He teaches at the University of Kansas, and his chapbook.
The Ivory Hours, is available from Heatherstone Press.

Hayden Carruth teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Syracuse University. His most recent book is
Tell Me Again How the White Heron Rises from the Reeds and Flies Across the Nacreous River at Twilight Toward the Distant Islands.

Cyrus Cassells is the author of two books of poetry,
The Mud Actor, a 1982 National Poetry Series winner, and the forthcoming
Down From the Houses of Magic. His work was anthologized in
Under 35: The New Generation of American Poets.

Martha Collins is the author of
The Catastrophe of Rainbows. She has recently completed a novel.

Jane Cooper's most recent book is
Scaffolding: New and Selected Poems (Anvil Press Poetry, 1984).

Alfred Corn is the author of five books of poetry, most recently
The West Door. He held the Elliston Chair of Poetry at the University of Cincinnati last autumn, and is teaching at UCLA this winter.

James Cummins's first book,
The Whole Truth, was published by North Point Press. He lives in Cincinnati.

Ann Darr has published five poetry collections, the last being
Do You Take This Woman. . .Her book
Riding With the Fireworks is about her travels with the American Waterways Symphony. Poems are appearing in
The New Virginia Review, Moznayim (Israel), and
The Dolphin's Arc.

Rosemary Deen, a native of Michigan, teaches at Queens College, writes about teaching with the poet Marie Ponsot, and is poetry editor of
Commonweal.

Toi Derricotte's new book,
Captivity, was recently published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Previous books are
Natural Birth and
The Empress of the Death House. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA.

Melvin Dixon's poetry was recently published in the anthology
Poets for Life: 76 Poets Respond to AIDS, edited by Michael Klein. He is the author of the novel
Trouble the Water, the volume of poetry
Change of Territory, and the forthcoming translations of the
Collected Poems of Leopold Sedar Senghar.

Rita Dove received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for
Thomas and Beulah. Her fourth book of poems,
Grace Notes, was published last fall. She teaches at the University of Virginia.

Cornelius Eady lives in New York City and teaches at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His second book of poems,
Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, won the 1985 Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets.

Julie Fay divides her time between France and North Carolina, where she teaches at East Carolina University. Her book
Portraits of Women is forthcoming from Ahsahta Press. New work is forthcoming in
Le Traductièrre (Paris),
Calyx, and elsewhere.

Casey Finch's recent poems have appeared in
The Iowa Review and
The Ohio Review. A chapbook,
The Forbidden Book, was published by the Berkeley Poetry Review Chapbook Series; and a verse translation of the 14-century
Pearl-poet is forthcoming from the University of California Press.

Suzanne Gardinier's poems appear in
Under 35: The New Generation of American Poets, Best American Poems 1989, and in various magazines. She is assistant editor at
Grand Street and lives in Sag Harbor. The stanzas in this issue are excerpts from a book-length poem called "The New World."

Albert Goldbarth's latest collection of poems,
Popular Culture, won the Ohio State University Press Award in Poetry and is due out in January 1990.
A Sympathy of Souls, essays, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press. He is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Wichita State University.

Sarah Gorham's first book of poems,
Don't Go Back to Sleep, recently was published by Galileo Press. Her poems have appeared in
Antaeus, The Nation, and
Poetry Northwest.

Jessica Greenbaum was a
Nation "Discovery" winner in 1986 and was selected as a Walt Whitman Award finalist and a PEN New Writer in 1989. Her poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in
Partisan Review, The Nation, Georgia Review, Southwest Review, The Texas Observer, and elsewhere.

Thom Gunn has lived in San Francisco for 28 years. His books of poetry in print include:
My Sad Captains, Jack Straw's Castle, Selected Poems, and
The Passages of Joy.

Rachas Hadas is the author of four books of poems, including
A Son From Sleep and
Pass It On. A 1988-89 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry, she teaches English at the Newark campus of Rutgers and has recently complete an essay collection,
In and Out of Books.

Joy Harjo has two forthcoming books:
Secrets From the Center of the World, a collaboration with astronomer/photographer Stephen Strom, and
In Mad Love and War (Wesleyan). She is currently Associate Professor at University of Arizona, Tucson.

Georgia Heard is the author of
For the Good of the Earth and Sun, a book on teaching poetry. She lives in Sag Harbor, NY.

Andrew Hudgins is currently the Alfred Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. His two books of poetry are
After the Lost War: A Narrative and
Saints and Strangers, both from Houghton Mifflin.

Gale Jackson collaborated with two other women poets on the book
We Stand Our Ground, and is a co-editor for the collection
Art Against Apartheid: Works for Freedom. She is currently working on a story collection and a novel.
The Precision of the Embrace.

Josephine Jacobsen was the 1988 winner of the Lenor Marshall Award for the best book of poetry,
The Sisters: New & Selected Poems. Her most recent book is
On the Island: Stories. She has served as Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress and on the Literature Panel for the NEA.

Judith Emlyn Johnson (formerly Judith Johnson Sherwin) has published one volume of short fiction and six of poetry, the first of which,
Uranium Poems, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, and the most recent of which was
How the Dead Count (Norton). She teaches at SUNY-Albany and publishes the magazine
Thirteenth Moon.

Yusef Komunyakaa's three poems are from a collection-in-progress entitled
Magic City.

Ann Lauterbach's
Before Recollection was published in 1987 by Princeton University Press. Her poems have appeared recently in
The Antioch Review, New American Writing, and
Conjunctions. She teaches at Columbia, City College, and Princeton.

Jan Heller Levi's poems are forthcoming in
Poetry East and have appeared in
Ploughshares Vol. 11/1,
Pequod, and elsewhere. She is Associate Editor of
Artforum Magazine.

Chris Llewellyn describes herself as "primarily a labor poet." Her book,
Fragments From the Fire, received the Walt Whitman Award in 1986 and was published by Viking in 1987. She is currently an MFA student at Warren Wilson College.

Phoebe Lord has received grants from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the Maryland State Arts Council. Her poems have appeared in
The Antioch Review, The New Republic, and
Shenandoah.

Herbert Woodward Martin is poet-in-residence at The University of Dayton and is the author of four books of poetry. His most recent work has appeared in
The Newport Review, The James H. White Review, and
The Writing Room, edited by Eve Shelnutt.

J. D. McClatchy's third collection of poems is forthcoming from Knopf. An anthology he has edited,
The Vintage Book of Contemporary Poetry, as well as paperback editions of
Poets on Painters and
White Paper, will be issued in 1990.

Colleen J. McElroy is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Washington, Seattle. Winner of the Before Columbus American Book Award, she has published a textbook on speech and language development, six books of poetry, and two collections of short stories.

Karen L. Mitchell recently published a book,
The Eating Hill (Eighth Mountain Press). Her work has appeared in several magazines.

Honor Moore's first collection,
Memoir, was published in 1988 by Chicory Blue Press. She is completing a biography of her grandmother, the painter Margarett Sargent.

Thylias Moss teaches at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA. She is the author of three volumes of poems:
Hosiery Seams on a Bowlegged Woman, Pyramid of Bone, and most recently,
At Redbones.

Eileen Myles's most recent publication is
1969, a book-length story from Hanuman Press. She'll be performing her work at ICA in Boston in March of 1990. She was born in Cambridge, MA.

Alice Notley's latest book of poems is
At Night The States (The Yellow Press, 1988). She has also recently edited a book of Ted Berrigan's work,
A Certain Slant of Sunlight (O Books, 1989). She continues to live in New York City.

Nina Nyhart is the author of
French for Soldiers (Alice James Books, 1987). Poems based on other paintings by Paul Klee appeared in
Poetry, June 1988.

Mary Oliver's books include
Twelve Moons, Dream Work, and
American Primitive, which received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize. Her next volume,
House of Light, will be published by Beacon Press in the spring of 1990.

Antonia Quintana Pigno, a native of New Mexico, has had two books of poetry,
Old Town Bridge and
La Jornada, published in limited hand-press editions by Zauberberg Press. Chair of Specialized Collections at Kansas State University Libraries, her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines.

Kenneth Pitchford's books of poetry include
The Blizzard Ape, A Suite of Angels, Color Photos of the Atrocities, The Contraband Poems, and
Dedications. He is also the translator of
The Sonnets to Orpheus of Rainer Maria Rilke and the author of a novel,
The Brothers, as well as a play,
The Wheel of the Murder, which was produced by Joseph Papp.

Marie Ponsot's most recent book of poems is
The Green Dark (Knopf, 1988). She teaches at Queens College.

Amanda Powell has published poems in
Agni, Imagine: Edición Feminista, Sinister Wisdom, Sojourner, The Women's Review of Books, and
Going for Coffee: An Anthology of North American Working Poems, and translations in
Untold Sisters: Hispanic Nuns in Their Own Works.

Minnie Bruce Pratt was for five years a member of the collective that edited
Feminary: A Feminist Journal for the South, Emphasizing Lesbian Visions. She has published two books of poetry,
The Sound of One Fork and
We Say We Love Each Other, and co-authored
Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism.

Julia Randall's collections of poetry include
The Puritan Carpenter, Adam's Dream, The Farewells, and
Moving in Memory (L.S.U., 1987), which won the first Poet's Prize.

Naomi Replansky's first book of poems,
Ring Song, was published by Scribners in 1952 and was nominated for the National Book Award that year. A chapbook,
Twenty-One Poems, Old and New, was put out by the Gingko Press in 1988. She has a full-length book,
The Dangerous World, not yet published.

Alberto Ríos, a Guggenheim Fellow, is Director of the Creative Writing Program at Arizona State University. His latest book of poetry is
The Lime Orchard Woman. He is also the author of
Whispering to Fool the Wind, which won the Walt Whitman Award,
Five Indiscretions, and
The Iguana Killer, a book of short stories.

Karl Rosenquist received his master's degree in English from the University of Florida in 1988 and is currently living in Charleston, SC. His poems appeared in
Shenandoah and
Ploughshares Vol. 13/4.

Mark Rudman's books include
By Contraries: Poems 1970-84 (National Poetry Foundation) and
Memories of Love: The Selected Poems of Bohdan Boychuk, for which he served as editor and co-translator. A new book of poems,
The Nowhere Steps, was recently published by Sheep Meadow Press.

Jerry Santek divides his time between San Francisco and Washington, D.C., where he is enrolled in American University's MFA program. His poetry has appeared in
Hayden's Ferry Review, Folio, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and elsewhere.

Maureen Seaton has had poems in
The Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, and
New Letters, with work forthcoming in the
Massachusetts Review, Poetry East, and
West Branch.

Hugh Seidman is the author of three books of poetry and has recently completed a fourth collection, tentatively called
People Live. They Have Lives. His most recent work has appeared or will be upcoming in
Paris Review, Pequod, Ironwood, Frank, Boulevard, and
Panoply.

Robyn Selman writes criticism for
The Village Voice and
The Nation. Her manuscript,
Dear Henry, is looking for a publisher.

Anita Skeen is Associate Professor of English at Wichita State University, where she teaches in the MFA and Women's Studies programs. She is the author of a volume of poetry,
Each Hand a Map, and has had poems published in numerous literary magazines.

Linda Smukler won
Nimrod's Katherine Anne Porter Short Fiction Prize in 1986. Her work has appeared in various periodicals and anthologies, most recently in
Gay and Lesbian Poetry of Our Time.

Patricia Storace's book of poems,
Heredity, was published in 1987. She is poetry editor of
The Paris Review.

Terese Svoboda's poetry recently appeared in
Paris Review, NER/BLQ, Massachusetts Review, and
Pequod. She is the author of
All Aberration and
Cleaned the Crocodile's Teeth. Forthcoming is
Laughing Africa, an Iowa Poetry Prize winner for 1990.

May Swenson's latest book of poems is
In Other Words. In 1987 she was the recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship.

Lorenzo Thomas is the author of several collections of poetry, including
The Bathers. A former National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, he teaches at University of Houston-Downtown.

Patricia Traxler has published two volumes of poetry,
Blood Calendar and
The Glass Woman, and recently completed a novel,
Earthly Luck. A native of California, she is currently living in Kansas, working on her third collection of poetry,
A Measured Sea.

Quincy Troupe is Professor of American and Third World Literature at The College of Staten Island, and teaches in Columbia's graduate writing program. The winner of the 1980 American Book Award for poetry, he recently edited
James Baldwin: The Legacy, and co-authored
Miles: The Autobiography with Miles Davis.

Kim Vaeth was a finalist in the 1988 Massachusetts Fellowship Program in Poetry. Her work has appeared in
Open Places, The Women's Review of Books, and
The American Voice, and she has recently completed a first collection of poetry,
Her Yes. She teaches writing at Simmons College in Boston.

LaWanda Walters has published poems in the
Southern Poetry Review, and in 1985 won the Academy of American Poets Prize for the best poem by a graduate student at Indiana. She now lives in Cincinnati with her husband, two-year-old daughter, and four-month-old son.

Marilyn Nelson Waniek's books are
For the Body (1978) and
Mama's Promises (1985), both published by LSU Press. She is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Ruth Whitman is the author of six books of poetry, the most recent of which is
The Testing of Hanna Senesh. Her seventh book,
Laughing Gas: Poems Selected and New 1963-1989, as well as her third book of translations from Yiddish poetry,
The Fiddle Rose: Poems 1970-1972 by Abraham Sutzkever, will be published in 1990.