Contributors' Notes

rick barot's second volume of poems, Want, will be published by Sarabande Books this spring. He teaches at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, and in the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

 

christian barter's first collection of poetry, The Singers I Prefer (CavanKerry) was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize. His poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, North American Review and others. He is a trail crew supervisor at Acadia National Park.

 

paula bohince is the author of Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods (Sarabande, 2008). Her poems have appeared in Agni, The Antioch Review, The Nation, Slate, and The Yale Review. She lives in Pennsylvania.

 

stephen burt teaches at Harvard. His new books of poems are Parallel Play and Shot Clocks: Poems for the WNBA; his new book of criticism is The Forms of Youth: Adolescence in 20th-Century Poetry.

 

colin cheney teaches in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. His poems have appeared recently in Isotope, New Delta Review, Fourteen Hills, and Runes. In 2006, Cheney was awarded a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York.

 

suzanne cleary's poetry books are Trick Pear (2007) and Keeping Time (2002), both published by Carnegie Mellon. Her awards include a Pushcart Prize and the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America. Her poems appear in many journals and anthologies, including Poetry 180 and 180 More.

 

billy collins's recent publications include The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (Random House, 2005) and a collection of haiku titled She Was Just Seventeen.

 

nicole cooley grew up in New Orleans and has published two poetry books and a novel. She is completing a book about Hurricane Katrina, and directing the new M.F.A. program at Queens College—The City University of New York. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and young daughters.

 

sally dawidoff lives and works in New York. Her poems appear this year in Indiana Review, Lyric Poetry Review, Subtropics, and several other journals.

 

peter everwine's most recent collection of poems is From the Meadow: Selected and New Poems (Pitt). A recipient of the Lamont Award and grants from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation, he lives in Fresno, California.

 

alice friman's new book is The Book of the Rotten Daughter. Her poems appear in Poetry, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Gettysburg Review, and Shenandoah, which awarded her the 2002 Boatwright Prize. Professor Emerita at the University of Indianapolis, Friman now lives in Milledgeville, Georgia, where she is Poet-in-Residence at Georgia College & State University.

 

jennifer grotz is the author of Cusp. Her poems, translations, and reviews appear or are forthcoming from Southern Review, New England Review, Boston Review, and elsewhere. She teaches in the M.F.A. program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and is the assistant director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

 

 

jennifer haigh is the author of Baker Towers and Mrs. Kimble. Her third novel, The Condition, will be published by HarperCollins in May, 2008.

 

c. g. hanzlicek is the author of eight collections of poetry, the most recent of which is The Cave: Selected and New Poems, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2001.

 

ehud havazelet's novel, Bearing the Body, was recently published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

 

brent hendricks is the author of Thaumatrope, published by Action Books in 2007.

 

david brendan hopes is a poet and playwright and professor of Literature and Humanities at UNCA. His newest book of poetry, A Dream of Adonis, has just appeared from Pecan Grove Press. His play Edward the King opens in New York in May, 2008.

 

ewa hryniewicz-yarbrough's translations of Janusz Szuber's poems will be published by Knopf in 2009. Her work has also appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, and Poetry. She lives in California and maintains a second home in Krakow.

 

yusef komunyakaa was awarded the Robert Creeley Poetry Award in 2007. His most recent book is Gilgamesh (Wesleyan, 2006), a verse play based on the Sumerian epic and co-authored by the playwright Chad Gracia.

 

james leigh is a writer, journalist, musician and retired English teacher who has taught at San Francisco State University and Pomona College. He has published four novels, plays regularly with two Southern California jazz groups, and reviews fiction for the San Diego Union–Tribune.

 

suzanne lummis, author of In Danger, has appeared lately in The Hudson Review, Pool, Poetry Flash, and Poetry International. She is editor of the idiosyncratic www.speechlessthemagazine.org, and teaches through the UCLA Extension Writers program.

 

david mason 's latest book is the verse novel, Ludlow, published by Red Hen Press. Other books include Arrivals, The Country I Remember, and a collection of essays, The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry. He teaches at the Colorado College and lives in the mountains outside Colorado Springs.

 

colleen j. mcelroy, a Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, has published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in numerous anthologies, such as Best American Poetry 2001, and the Oxford Anthology of African American Literature. Sleeping with the Moon (Illinois, 2007) is her most recent collection of poems.

 

michael meyerhofer's book, Leaving Iowa , won the Liam Rector First Book Award from Briery Creek Press. His new chapbook, The Clay-Shaper's Husband, will be published by Codhill Press in 2008.

 

david moolten won the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize in 1993 for his first book, Plums and Ashes (Northeastern). His most recent book is Especially Then, published in 2005 by David Robert Books.

 

tomas q. morin was educated at Texas State University and Johns Hopkins University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in New Orleans Review, Boulevard, Slate, and Best New Poets 2007.

 

joan murray is editor of two new anthologies: Poems to Live By in Troubling Times (Beacon) and The Pushcart Book of Poetry: Best Poems from 30 Years of the Pushcart Prize. Her most recent collection is Dancing on the Edge, also from Beacon.

 

tim nolan lives in Minneapolis with his wife and three kids and works as a lawyer. His poems have appeared in The Nation, Ploughshares, Poetry East, and other publications. Garrison Keillor regularly reads his poems on The Writer's Almanac. His first book of poetry, The Sound of It, will be published by New Rivers Press in 2008.

 

mary rose o 'reilley lives in Minnesota where she works at being a potter, gardener and folk musician. Her first book of poetry, Half Wild won the 2005 Walt Whitman Award. She is also the author of five books of nonfiction, most recently The Love of Impermanent Things: A Threshold Ecology.

 

linda pastan 's twelfth book of poems, Queen of a Rainy Country, was recently published by Norton. She received the Ruth Lilly Prize in 2003, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award. From 1991 to 1995 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland.

 

lucia perillo's fourth book of poems, Luck is Luck, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was awarded the Kingsley Tufts prize from Claremont University. A book of her essays, I've Heard the Vultures Singing, was published by Trinity University Press in 2007.

 

maxine scates is the author of two books of poems, Black Loam (Cherry Grove) and Toluca Street (Pitt); she is also editor, with David Trinidad, of Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford (Copper Canyon). She lives in Eugene, Oregon.

 

laurie sheck is the author of five books of poems, most recently Captivity (Knopf, 2007). She has been a fellow at the Ratcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and a 2006–07 Fellow at the Culman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. The excerpt in this issue is from her newly completed hybrid work, Archangel. She lives in New York City.