Contributors' Notes

EDITORIAL BOARD

Publisher

Peter O'Malley

Coordinating Editor

George Kimball

Editorial Staff

William Corbett

David Gullette

DeWitt Henry

Norman Klein

Contributing Editors

Sam Cornish

Aram Saroyan

Art Director

David Omar White

Business Manager

Tom Hargadon

Advertising Manager

Richard H. Brown

CONTRIBUTORS

DESMOND O'GRADY, born 1935, is a major Irish poet living in Rome; among his many books of poems and translations are
Hellas (1971),
Off Licence (1968), and
The Dying Gaul (1968).

BRUCE BENNETT, a sometimes Cambridge resident, is teaching and writing this year (and next?) in Firenze, Italy.

HUGH SEIDMAN, born 1940, published his first book,
Collecting Evidence, in the Yale Series of Younger Poets for 1970. He lives in New York.

DAVID IGNATOW teaches at York College, City University of New York, co-edits
Chelsea, and has published numerous volumes of poetry, including
Poems 1934-69 (Wesleyan, 1970).

HENRY H. ROTH has published more than seventy short stories, some of which appeared in
The New American Review, The Boston Review, Antaeus, and
December. He is presently completing a novel under contract to Simon and Schuster and lives in S. Nyack, N.J.

EDWARD DORN, born 1929, is Poet in Residence at Kent State; his most recent books include
24 Love Songs (1969),
Our Word (1968),
Gunslinger (1968), and
The North Atlantic Turbine (1967).

JACK THIBEAU is the author of
Saint and the Football Players & Other Xerox Poems of Jack Thibeau (Wittenborn), and now lives in San Francisco.

TOM WEATHERLY teaches at Morgan State in Baltimore, is the author of
Maumau American Cantos (Corinth Books, 1970) and joint editor with Ted Wilentz of
Natural Process (Hill and Wang, 1970).

THOMAS REDSHAW, formerly of Dublin, teaches and writes now in St. Paul, Minn. His narrative sequence,
Nose Poems, is forthcoming in
Diana's BiMonthly.

MAURA STANTON is studying and teaching at the University of Iowa.

HANK KUNE and ANTHONY JARZOMBEK are both from New York; un-unfortunately we have no other information on them at this time.

JAMES TATE is presently teaching at U. Mass in Amherst. Yale Younger Poet in 1966, among his numerous books are
The Lost Pilot (1966),
The Oblivion Ha-Ha (1970), and
Hints to Pilgrims (1971).

DAVID BALL has a third book of poems,
New Topoi, due this winter. His poems have appeared in
Locus Solus, The World, Blue Pig and elsewhere. He teaches French at Smith College.

JAMES HUMPHREY is the author of
Argument for Love, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1971. He is currently giving poetry readings and instructing poetry seminars in high schools in the Southwest Poetry Program for the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in East Falmouth.

RICHARD GROSSINGER, born 1944, teaches Anthropology at the U. of Maine and is working on
The Book of the Cranberry Islands, which originates in the geography of coastal Maine. He also edits
IO, and is the author of
The Book of the Earth and Sky (Black Sparrow, 1971) and most recently,
Mars (1972).

LARRY EIGNER lives in Swampscot, Mass. He has published two books,
Air the Trees (Black Sparrow, 1969) and
Another Time in Flags (Horizon), and has appeared in Don Allen's
New American Poetry 1945-60.

MARK HALLIDAY graduated last year from Brown, is now working in a Providence bookstore, and has poems in several small magazines and one in the current
New American Review.

GEOFFREY CLARK teaches Creative Writing at Roger Williams College in Bristol, R.I. Co-editor of
Workshop: A Spontaneous Approach to Literature (Cummings, 1971), he has two completed novels,
Clumsy Partners and
Where Ladders Start, as yet unsold.

JEFF SILVA is a senior at Roger Williams College, where he is poetry editor of
Aldebaran.

RICHARD BURNS is currently jobless, having taught at Dean Junior College and recently been detached from Grady's Traveling Circus. He lives in Framingham, and has had poems in
Yes, Patterns, and
Commonweal.

THOMAS LUX has a major collection of poetry,
Memory's Handgrenade, forthcoming from the Pym-Randall Press. Having served for a year with
The Iowa Review, he continues to edit The Barn Dream Press, and will be returning to Boston this fall.

ARAM SAROYAN has moved recently from Cambridge, where he helped to edit
Ploughshares #2, to New York. Among his books are
The Rest (Telegraph Books, 1971),
Cloth and
Words and Photographs (both from Follett), and
Aram Saroyan (Random, 1970).

PHYLLIS JANOWITZ lives in Lexington, works at the Radcliffe Institute, and has published in
Quest, Quabbin, East Coast Anthology, and Bantam's
Intro.

JOYCE PESEROFF is working and writing in Boston.

FANNY HOWE has a book of stories,
Forty Whacks, a book of poems,
Eggs, and will be teaching at Emerson College this fall. The pages published here are from a new novel, as yet untitled.

JOHN BART GERALD teaches at Harvard and is the author of
A Thousand Thousand Mornings (1964) and co-editor of
Survival Prose (Bobbs-Merrill, 1971). A new novel,
Conventional Wisdom, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

JULIE MAAS is the illustrator of
Vegetarian Epicure, forthcoming from Knopf.

PAUL HANNIGAN teaches at Emerson and has a new book of poems,
The Carnation, just out from the Barn Dream Press.

JEOFFREY BARTMAN is graduating from Emerson, where he has edited
The Emerson Review.

DAVID COHEN is a student at Harvard, studying with Robert Fitzgerald.

EMILY BARKIN is a student at Simmons College.

NORMAN SHAPIRO teaches French at Wesleyan. Among his books are
Four Farces by George Feydeau (U. of Chicago, 1970), which was nominated for the National Book Award,
Negritude (October House, 1971), and
Comedy of Eros (U. of Illinois, 1971). His translations of Old French fables form part of a new volume in preparation.

GEORGE ANTHONY has published widely in
Open Places, Partisan Review, The Atlantic, and elsewhere, and has written several books, including
The Scholar Dunce, Toys in Blood, and
My Italies. He lives in Cambridge and spends his summers in Maine.

DAVID BERMAN practices law in Medford, has published poems in
The Advocate Century Anthology, Currents, Identity, Counter Measures, and elsewhere.

WILLIAM CORBETT teaches at Emerson, helps to edit
Ploughshares, has poems published in
Sumac, Boston Arts, and a pamphlet,
Sunsets, from The Barn Dream Press.

DAVID GULLETTE teaches at Simmons, lives in Newton, is active in the local theater, and helps to edit
Ploughshares.

DEWITT HENRY has taught writing at Harvard and Simmons, and besides helping to edit
Ploughshares, is presently jobless. In progress and uncontracted is a novel,
The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts, portions of which have appeared in
Ploughshares and
Aldebaran.

CALVIN BURNETT teaches at Massachusetts College of the Arts.

DAVID OMAR WHITE has had work in
The Atlantic, The Phoenix, The Boston Globe, Ripon Forum, Harper's and elsewhere. He has also written two children's books,
I Know a Giraffe and
Elizabeth's Shopping Spree (both from Knopf) and illustrated several others.