Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Guest Editor

Charles Baxter

Editor

Don Lee

Poetry Editor

David Daniel

Assistant Editor

Gregg Rosenblum

Associate Fiction Editor

Maryanne O'Hara

Associate Poetry Editor

Susan Conley

Founding Editor

DeWitt Henry

Founding Publisher

Peter O'Malley

Assistant Fiction Editors: Jay Baron Nicorvo and Nicole Kelley.
Editorial Assistants: Bess Newman and Patricia Reed.
Fiction Readers: Eson Kim, Wendy Wunder, Michael Rainho, Hannah Bottomy, Thomas Fabian, Emily MacLellan, Darla Bruno, Bart Cameron, Lisa Dush, Geraldine McGowan, Susan Nusser, Elizabeth Pease, and Laura Tarvin.
Poetry Readers: Sean Singer, Scott Withiam, Ellen Wehle, Jay Baron Nicorvo, Joanne Diaz, Tracy Gavel, Kristofferf Haines, Jill Owens, Jennifer Thurber, and Christopher Hennessy.

CONTRIBUTORS

david barber's collection of poems,
The Spirit Level, was awarded the 1995 Terrence Des Pres Prize and published by TriQuarterly Books. His poetry and prose have recently appeared in
The Atlantic Monthly, The New Criterion, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and
Parnassus.

ann beattie's seventh novel,
The Doctor's House, will be published by Scribner in February 2002. She is the author of seven collections of stories, most recently
Perfect Recall. She is a professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she lives part of the year with her husband, Lincoln Perry. She edited
Ploughshares Vol. 21/2&3.

april bernard is the author of two poetry collections,
Blackbird Bye Bye and
Psalms, as well as a novel,
Pirate Jenny. Her third collection,
Swan Electric, will be published next year.

anne bernays is the author of eight novels and the co-author of three nonfiction books, including the forthcoming
Back Then, a double memoir of life in New York City in the 1950's, written with her husband, Justin Kaplan. She co-edited
Ploughshares Vol. 10/2&3 with Kaplan.

wendell berry's most recent books are
Selected Poems, the essay
Life Is a Miracle, and the novel
Jayber Crow, all from Counterpoint.

frank bidart's most recent book of poems,
Desire, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1997. He edited
Ploughshares Vol. 2/4.

george bilgere's poems have appeared recently in
Poetry, The Iowa Review, Shenandoah, and
The Best American Poetry, and are forthcoming in
The Southern Review, Denver Quarterly, and
Field. His newest book of poems is
Big Bang (Copper Beech). He teaches at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.

robert bly's most recent book of poems,
The Night Abraham Called to the Stars, appeared this year from HarperCollins. With Sunil Dutta, he translated
The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib: Selected Poems of Ghalib (Ecco). HarperCollins has also published his
Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems.

don bogen is the author of two books of poetry,
After the Splendid Display and
The Known World, from Wesleyan University Press. A third is forthcoming in 2003. He teaches at the University of Cincinnati.

laure-anne bosselaar is the author of
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf. Her second poetry collection,
Small Gods of Grief, won the Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry for 2001. She is the editor of
Outsiders: Poems About Rebels, Exiles, and Renegades and
Urban Nature: Poems About Wildlife in the City.

amy bottke is a teacher at the Hampden County Correctional Center in Ludlow, Massachusetts. Her poems have been published in anthologies by Graywolf Press, Milkweed Editions, and Iowa Press. Her work has also appeared in
Quill, Many Mountains Moving, and
Louisiana Literature.

rosellen brown's novel
Half a Heart (Picador) is now in paperback, and her 1974 story collection
Street Games was republished-its fourth incarnation-this past summer by Norton. She teaches in the M.F.A. program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She edited
Ploughshares Vol. 4/2 and 20/2&3.

hayden carruth has published forty-five books, chiefly of poetry but including also a novel, four books of criticism, and two anthologies. His most recent books are
Reluctantly,
Beside the Shadblow Tree,
Three New Poems, and
Dr. Jazz. He has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lannan Award, the National Book Award, and many other honors.

tom clark's latest books are
White Thought (The Figures) and
The Spell: A Romance (Black Sparrow). He is at work on a biography of the American poet Edward Dorn.

victoria clausi received her M.F.A. in poetry from Bennington College, where she currently teaches poetry in the July Program. She has published poems in various journals and anthologies, including
Roots and Flowers (Henry Holt, 2001). Her limited-edition chapbook,
Boarding House, was published through Bennington's Alumni Chapbook Series.

mark conway has work appearing in
The Paris Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Journal, and
Prairie Schooner. He lives in Avon, Minnesota.

justine cook is a graduate of Wesleyan University and works as the managing editor of
Zoetrope: All-Story. She has published poetry in
The New Yorker, Poetry, and
The Southwest Review, and written variously on fashion, art, and books.

mary crow is the author of nine collections of poetry, most recently
I Have Tasted the Apple. Her translations of Olga Orozco's and Enrique Lihn's poems are forthcoming next year. Her work has appeared in
The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The American Voice, New Letters, and elsewhere. Poet Laureate of Colorado, she teaches in the creative writing program at Colorado State University.

nicole cuddeback's poems have most recently appeared in
The Paris Review, Quarterly West, and
River Styx. She lives in Florence, Italy, where she teaches prose writing at NYU's Villa La Pietra.

madeline defrees's
Blue Dusk: New and Selected Poems will be published this fall by Copper Canyon Press. Her poems have recently appeared in
Urban Nature, Visiting Emily, The Ohio Review, and
The Extraordinary Tide. She co-edited
Ploughshares Vol. 12/4 with Tess Gallagher.

mark doty is a 2001-02 fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. His new collection of poems,
Source, will be published this winter by HarperCollins. He edited
Ploughshares Vol. 25/1.

rita dove is a Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate. Her latest poetry collection,
On the Bus with Rosa Parks, was published in 1999. She is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and writes a weekly column, "Poet's Choice," for
The Washington Post. She co-edited
Ploughshares Vol. 16/1 with Fred Viebahn.

emilia dubicki exhibits paintings in Wellfleet and Provincetown, Massachusetts. In the spring of 2000, she had a residency at the Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos,New Mexico. She is completing a novel.

martín espada's sixth book of poems is
A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen (Norton). His previous collection,
Imagine the Angels of Bread (Norton), won an American Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Espada teaches in the English department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

angie estes is the author of
The Uses of Passion, which won the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize. Her new manuscript,
Voice-Over, was awarded the 2001 Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize by the Poetry Society of America. Recent work appears in
The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, Field, and
Chelsea.

robert farnsworth lives and teaches in Maine. Wesleyan University Press published his two collections, and new poems have been appearing in
The Southern Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Hudson Review, and elsewhere.

caroline finkelstein is the author of the poetry collections
Windows Facing East (Dragon Gate, 1986),
Germany (Carnegie Mellon, 1995),
Justice (Carnegie Mellon, 1999), and the forthcoming
The Moment. She spent 1999 as an Amy Lowell Traveling Scholar in Florence, Italy, and now lives in Westport, Massachusetts.

terri ford is a graduate of the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her first book of poems,
Why the Ships Are She, was issued by Four Way Books in May. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

chris forhan won the Bakeless Prize for his first book of poetry,
Forgive Us Our Happiness (New England, 1999), and his work has appeared in
Poetry, Parnassus, New England Review, and elsewhere. He teaches in Warren Wilson College's M.F.A. Program for Writers.

elizabeth kemper french's stories have appeared in
The North American Review, StoryQuarterly, Sundog: The Southeast Review, and the anthology
Microfiction (Norton, 1996). She received a special mention in
The Pushcart Prize XXIII. She lives in southern Massachusetts, where she is working on a collection of stories.

lorrie goldensohn's
Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Her current projects include a collection of poems,
Occupying Forces, and a study of twentieth-century war literature,
Dismantling Glory. She co-edited
Ploughshares Vol. 5/1 with Ellen Bryant Voigt and Vol. 6/4 with Jayne Anne Phillips.

david gullette teaches writing and literature at Simmons College and is Literary Director of the Poets' Theatre. He has written two books about the confluence of poetry and revolution in Nicaragua:
Nicaraguan Peasant Poetry from Solentiname and
¡GASPAR!: A Spanish Poet/Priest in the Nicaraguan Revolution. He edited
Ploughshares Vol. 2/3.

marilyn hacker is the author of nine books, including
Winter Numbers, Selected Poems, and
Squares and Courtyards. She also recently translated Claire Malroux's
Soleil de Jadis and Vénus Khoury-Ghata's
Here There Was Once a Country. She lives in New York and Paris, and is director of the M.A. program in English literature and creative writing at the City College of New York. She edited
Ploughshares Vol. 15/4 and 22/1.

jeffrey harrison was a Guggenheim fellow last year. His third book of poems,
Feeding the Fire, will be published by Sarabande Books in November. He lives in Andover, Massachusetts, where he was the Roger Murray Writer-in-Residence at Phillips Academy for three years.

dewitt henry's novel,
The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts, will appear in September from the University of Tennessee Press as the inaugural winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel. His latest anthology is
Sorrow's Company: Writers on Loss and Grief from Beacon Press (for details, see www.dewitthenry.com). He is the cofounder and founding editor of
Ploughshares. He edited or co-edited fourteen issues.

jim heynen is currently writer-in-residence at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Three of his books will be released this fall:
The Boys' House: New and Selected Stories; Standing Naked: New and Selected Poems; and
Fishing for Chickens: Stories about Rural Youth. Earlier books include
The One-Room Schoolhouse. He lives in St. Paul with his wife, the journalist Sarah T. Williams.

jane hirshfield's fifth collection,
Given Sugar, Given Salt, appeared earlier this year from HarperCollins. Recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the Poetry Center Book Award, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, and other honors, she co-edited
Ploughshares Vol. 24/1 with Stuart Dybek.

fanny howe's
Selected Poems has just been published by the University of California Press. Her other books of poetry include
One Crossed Out (Graywolf),
The End (Littoral), and
The Vineyard (Lost Roads). Her most recent novels include
Nod (Sun & Moon) and
Indivisible (Semiotext(e)/MIT). She edited
Ploughshares Vol. 2/1.

cynthia huntington has published two books of poems,
The Fish-Wife (1986) and
We Have Gone to the Beach (1996). A prose memoir,
The Salt House, was published by the University Press of New England in 1999. Her work has recently appeared in
Agni, TriQuarterly, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.

colette inez has authored eight collections, including
Clemency (Carnegie Mellon, 1998). She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, and twice from the NEA. She is on the faculty of Columbia University's Writing Program in the School of General Studies.

katia kapovich is a bilingual poet writing in English and Russian. Her poems have appeared in
The London Review of Books, Harvard Review, The Antioch Review, The American Scholar, The Massachusetts Review, Press, Slate, Salamander, and
The Dark Horse, and are forthcoming in
Verse and
Stand.

meg kearney's first collection of poetry,
An Unkindness of Ravens, will be published by BOA Editions in October 2001. Her poems have appeared in
Agni, The Gettysburg Review, DoubleTake, Black Warrior Review, and the anthology
Urban Nature. She is Associate Director of the National Book Foundation in Manhattan.

x. j. kennedy has had verse lately in
The Hudson Review and
The Sewanee Review. Two new children's books,
Elefantina's Dream (Philomel) and
Exploding Gravy (Little, Brown), are forthcoming. The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, which includes book publication by Texas Review Press, is now in its fourth year.

maxine kumin's thirteenth collection of poems,
The Long Marriage, is out this fall from W.W. Norton, which also published her memoir,
Inside the Halo and Beyond: Anatomy of a Recovery. A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, she was awarded the Ruth Lilly Prize in 1999. She and her husband live on a farm in New Hampshire. She edited
Ploughshares Vol. 14/1.

laurie lamon is an associate professor of English at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington. Her poems have appeared in many journals and magazines, including
The Atlantic Monthly and
The New Republic.

don lee is the author of a collection of short stories,
Yellow, which was published this past April by W.W. Norton. He co-edited
Ploughshares Vol. 20/4 with David Daniel.

david lehman's most recent book,
The Daily Mirror, consisted of one hundred fifty of the poems he wrote after resolving to write one every day as an experiment. He has continued the practice, and "March 30" is from a new year of daily poems,
The Evening Sun, which Scribner will publish in 2002.

philip levine is the author of sixteen books of poetry, most recently
The Mercy. He edited
Ploughshares Vol. 14/4.

timothy liu's new book of poems is
Hard Evidence (Talisman, 2001). He lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.

michael longley's most recent collection,
The Weather in Japan, won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Hawthornden Prize for 2000. In 2001, he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He and his wife, the critic Edna Longley, live and work in Belfast.

alice mattison's most recent book is the novel
The Book Borrower. This fall, Harper Perennial will bring out a paperback edition of her 1995 novel
Hilda and Pearl. She lives in New Haven and teaches in the M.F.A. program at Bennington College.

wesley mcnair's most recent book of poetry is
Talking in the Dark. Early next year Godine will publish his sixth collection,
Fire.

jean monahan is the author of three books of poetry:
Hands, chosen by Donald Hall for the 1991 Anhinga Prize;
Believe It or Not (Orchises, 1999); and
Same Difference (unpublished). She is currently working on a fourth collection,
18th Century Zebra.

paul muldoon is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently
Poems 1968-1998. He is Howard G.B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University and Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. He edited
Ploughshares Vol. 26/1.

jay neugeboren is the author of thirteen books, including two novels,
The Stolen Jew and
Before My Life Began; two collections of stories,
Corky's Brother and
Don't Worry About the Kids; and two books of nonfiction,
Imagining
Robert and
Transforming Madness. He lives in New York City. He edited
Ploughshares Vol. 6/3.

cornelia nixon is the author of two novels,
Now You See It and
Angels Go Naked, as well as a study of D. H. Lawrence. She won first prize in the 1995 O. Henry Awards. She teaches in the M.F.A. program at Mills College, near San Francisco.

joyce carol oates's most recent books are the collection of stories
Faithless: Tales of Transgression and the novel
Blonde.

geoffrey g. o'
brien's first book,
The Guns and Flag Project, will be published by the University of California Press in February 2002.

sharon olds's books are
Satan Says, The Dead and the Living, The Gold Cell, The Father, The Wellspring, and
Blood, Tin, Straw. She teaches at NYU and helps run the NYU workshop at a state hospital for the severely physically challenged. She was New York State Poet Laureate from 1998-2000.

gregory orr is the author of seven collections of poetry, the most recent of which is
Orpheus and Eurydice from Copper Canyon Press, which will release
The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems in 2002.

joyce peseroff's three books of poems are
The Hardness Scale, A Dog in the Lifeboat, and
Mortal Education. She is Visiting Professor and Poet in Residence at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She was the first Managing Editor of
Ploughshares, as well as Associate Poetry Editor from 1988-1991. She edited Vol. 8/1, and co-edited Vol. 17/2&3 with DeWitt Henry.

donald platt's second book,
Cloud Atlas, will appear this winter from Purdue University Press as a winner of the Verna Emery Poetry Prize. His chapbook
Leap Second at the Turn of the Millennium was published in the spring of 2000 by the Center for Book Arts in New York City. He is an associate professor of English at Purdue University.

james randall cofounded Pym-Randall Press with his wife, Joanne. He also founded the writing program at Emerson College, at which he is now Emeritus Professor. He edited
Ploughshares Vol. 1/3, 5/3, and 7/1, and co-edited Vol. 4/1 with DeWitt Henry and Tim O'Brien.

liam rector is the author of two books of poems,
American Prodigal and
The Sorrow of Architecture. He is the director of the graduate Writing Seminars at Bennington College.

lee ann roripaugh's first volume of poetry,
Beyond Heart Mountain (Penguin, 1999), was a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series, and was selected as a finalist for the 2000 Asian American Literary Awards. She is currently an assistant professor of English at the University of South Dakota.

gibbons ruark's books include
Keeping Company, Rescue the Perishing, and
Passing Through Customs: New and Selected Poems (LSU, 1999). A recipient of three NEA fellowships and a Pushcart Prize, he has new work in
The New Criterion, Shenandoah, and
The Cortland Review.

stephen sandy's most recent collection of poems is
Black Box (LSU, 1999). His long poem
Surface Impressions will be published next March by LSU Press. His work appears in recent or forthcoming issues of
The Atlantic Monthly, Fence, The Paris Review, The Partisan Review, Salamander, and
Salmagundi.

lloyd schwartz directs the creative writing program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and reports on classical music for NPR's
Fresh Air and
The Boston Phoenix, for which he received the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for criticism
. His most recent poetry collection is
Cairo Traffic. He is currently co-editing Elizabeth Bishop's collected works for the Library of America. He co-edited
Ploughshares Vol. 2/4 with Frank Bidart and Robert Pinsky, and edited Vol. 5/2.

rebecca seiferle's third poetry collection,
Bitters, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press this fall. Poems from her previous book,
The Music We Dance To, won the Hemley Award from the Poetry Society of America and were included in
The Best American Poetry 2000. She is the editor of
The Drunken Boat (www.thedrunkenboat.com).

neil shepard has published two books of poetry,
Scavenging the Country for a Heartbeat (1993) and
I'm Here Because I Lost My Way (1998), both from Mid-List Press. His poems have recently appeared in
The Paris Review, Boulevard, The Notre Dame Review, TriQuarterly, and
Ontario Review. He teaches at Johnson State College in Vermont and edits
The Green Mountains Review.

reginald shepherd's third book,
Wrong (1999), was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, which also published his previous two books,
Some Are Drowning (1994) and
Angel, Interrupted (1996). The poem in this issue is from his fourth book,
Otherhood, forthcoming from Pittsburgh. He has received grants from the NEA, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation.

sarah silbert has published stories and essays in
Agni, Hope Magazine, Spectacle, The Georgetown Law Journal Against Poverty, An Intricate Weave, and elsewhere. She teaches writing at Vermont Technical College, New England Medical Center, and Ucross Artists Colony.

taije silverman graduated from Vassar College and is currently enrolled in the University of Houston's M.F.A. program. She is from Charlottesville, Virginia.

louis simpson's most recent publications are a collection of poems,
There You Are, and a translation from the French of François Villon's
The Legacy & The Testament. He is at work on his
New and Selected Poems and a collection of essays. He lives in Stony Brook, New York.

john smelcer's recent poetry books include
Songs from an Outcast (UCLA, 2000),
Riversongs (CPR, 2001), and
Changing Seasons. His nonfiction books include
Durable Breath: Contemporary Native American Poetry, In the Shadows of Mountains, and
The Raven and the Totem.

bruce smith is the author of four books of poetry, most recently
The Other Lover (Chicago), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize. He teaches in the University of Alabama's graduate writing program.

w. d. snodgrass is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, including
The Fuehrer Bunker: The Complete Cycle, Each in His Season, and
Selected Poems 1957-1987.

elizabeth spires is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently
Worldling, and four books for children, including
The Mouse of Amherst and
I Am Arachne. "Ghazal" will be included in her new book of poems,
Now the Green Blade Rises, forthcoming from W.W. Norton in 2002. She co-edited
Ploughshares Vol. 25/4 with Madison Smartt Bell.

maura stanton's most recent book of poetry,
Glacier Wine, is just out from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her book of stories
Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling won the Sullivan Prize, and will be published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2002. She teaches in the creative writing program at Indiana University, Bloomington. She edited
Ploughshares Vol. 15/1.

gerald stern is the author of
This Time: New and Selected Poems, which won the National Book Award, and
Last Blue, both from W.W. Norton. He has a new book,
59 American Sonnets, coming out in the spring of 2002. He lives in Lambertville, New Jersey. He edited
Ploughshares Vol. 16/4.

mark strand is the author of ten books of poems, the most recent of which are
Blizzard of One and
Chicken, Shadow, Moon, and More. He teaches in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He co-edited
Ploughshares Vol. 21/4 with Tim O'Brien.

brian swann has published numerous books of poetry, fiction, children's literature, translations, and Native American literature. He lives in New York City and Delaware County, New York.

deborah tall's fourth book of poems,
Summons, was chosen for the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize by Charles Simic and published by Sarabande Books. She is also the author of two books of nonfiction, co-editor of
The Poet's Notebook from W.W. Norton, and editor of
Seneca Review.

susan terris's recent books of poetry are
Curved Space (La Jolla Poets, 1998),
Eye of the Holocaust (Arctos, 1999), and
Angels of Bataan (Pudding House, 1999). She is also the author of seventeen young adult novels, including
Nell's Quilt (FSG). With C. B. Follett, she is co-editor of a new journal,
RUNES: A Review of Poetry.

alpay ulku's first book,
Meteorology (BOA, 1999), was selected as a Notable Debut by the Academy of American Poets. His poems have appeared recently in
Witness, The Malahat Review, and
The Gettysburg Review, and previously in
Ploughshares. He works as a technical writer in Chicago.

fred viebahn has published extensively in his native Germany, where he also worked as a journalist and editor before coming to the U.S. in 1976 as a Fulbright Fellow in the University of Iowa's International Writing Program.
The Stain, the revised American version of one of his German novels, was published in 1988. He co-edited
Ploughshares Vol. 16/1 with his wife, Rita Dove.

ellen bryant voigt's sixth volume of poetry,
Shadow of Heaven, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in February 2002. Most recently, she published
The Flexible Lyric, a collection of craft essays. She teaches in Warren Wilson College's M.F.A. Program for Writers, and is currently the Vermont State Poet. She co-edited
Ploughshares Vol. 5/1 with Lorrie Goldensohn, and Vol. 22/4 with Robert Boswell.

dan wakefield is a novelist, journalist, and screenwriter whose books include the memoir
New York in the Fifties and the novel
Going All The Way. He can be reached at his website, www.danwakefield.com. He edited
Ploughshares Vol. 7/3&4.

rebecca wee's first book,
Uncertain Grace, won the Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets in 2000 and was published by Copper Canyon Press in May 2001. Her poem in this issue is dedicated to her husband, Michael Hudson, who died in 1998 of leukemia. Her recent work also appears in
The Mid-America Poetry Review and the anthology
The Cancer Poetry Project, edited by Karin Miller. She teaches at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.

ann joslin williams is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her work has appeared in
Story, The North American Review, The Missouri Review, Willow Springs, The Chattahoochee Review, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco.

jonah winter is a children's book author and illustrator whose most recent book is called
¡BEISBOL! Latino Baseball Pioneers and Legends. He currently teaches at George Mason University.

charles wright lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, and teaches at the University of Virginia. His most recent book is
Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems. His poem in this issue is from a projected collection called
A Short History of the Shadow.