Contributors

Kathleen Aponick has published poetry in Seneca Review, The Worcester Review, Karamu, and other publications. She also published a chapbook of poems, Near the River’s Edge (Pudding House Press). Walter Bargen has published eight books of poetry. The most recent book, Harmonic Balance, from Timberline Press was published in March 2001. He was the winner of winner of the Chester H. Jones Foundation poetry prize in 1997. Tina Barr’s on Cairo have appeared in Boudary 2, Chelsea, Crab Orchard Review, and The Southern Review. A chapbook, The Fugitive Eye, was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as the winner of the Painted Bride Quarterly contest and published in 1997. She directs the Creative Writing Program at Rhodes College in Memphis. Christian Barter’s poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, Tar River Poetry, The Louisville Review, and others. He is a crew leader for Arcadia National Parks’s trail crews. Robert Bense has poems forthcoming in Poetry, Seneca Review, and Salmagundi, among other journals. Eileen Berry was born in England and lived in Africa before coming to America. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography from Clark University. Her poetry has been published in a number of journals and includes a Pushcart nomination. She was an associate at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in 1992 with Amy Clampitt and in 1997 with David Lehman. Rebecca Black is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and is finishing an MFA from Indiana University. She lives in the Mission District in San Francisco. Susan Briante is a part-time translator living in Austin, Texas. Her work has appeared in New American Writing, Indiana Review, and The Marlboro Review, among other magazines. Nadia Colburn is a graduate student at Columbia University where she is writing a dissertation on Auden, Ashbery and Merrill. She lives with her husband and son in Boston. James Doyle and his wife Sharon, who is also a poet, are retired. James has poetry in forthcoming issues of the Midwest Quarterly, The Iowa Review, Cimarron Review, West Branch and other journals. Tony D’Souza is a 2000 graduate of the ND Writing Program. His stories have appeared and received awards in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand, in such journals as Stand, Black Warrior Review, Imago, Takahe, Dark Horse, Barbaric Yawp and others. He is currently a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Ivory Coast. Beth Ann Fennelly is an Assistant Professor at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. Her poems have been published in TriQuarterly, Poetry Ireland Review, and The Kenyon Review. They have been republished in Best American Poetry, The 2001 Pushcart Prize, and Poets of the New Century. Charles Freeland teaches creative writing at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, OH. His work has appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, Free Lunch, The Midwest Quarterly, New Orleans Review and many others. Kenneth Frost’s poems have appeared in Salmagundi, Southwest Review, Confrontation, Chattahoochee Review and others. He lives in Maine. John Gallaher’s book of poetry, Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls is forthcoming in 2001. Other guidebooks can be found in the Boston Review, Colorado Review, Iowa Review, The Ohio Review, Fence, and others. Geoffrey Gardner’s poems, essays and translations of poetry have been published widely for many years. Most recently, he has translated and introduced Presence; Poems of Jean Follain , published by Grace Paley and Robert Nichols’s Glad Day Books. With Taylor Stoehr he has edited and introduced An Existing Better World; Notes on the Bread & Puppet Theater by George Dennison, published by Autonomedia, and he has edited and introduced Swords That Shall Not Strike; Poems of Protest and Rebellion by Kenneth Rexroth, also from Glad Day Books. John Gery’s forthcoming books include Gallery of Ghosts, a collection of poems from Story Line Press, and Davenport’s Version, a narrative poem of the Civil War in New Orleans, from Portals Press. He is a Research Professor of English at the University of New Orleans and Director of the Ezra Pound Center for Literature, Brunnenburg Castle, Italy. Mark Halperin teaches at Central Washington University. His latest book,Time As Distance, New Issues Press (University of Western Michigan), as well as a chapbook, Now and Then, (March Street Press) and a Greatest Hits (Pudding House Publications) appeared in 2001. John Hennessy’s poems appear or are forthcoming in The Sewanee Review, Ontario Review, Washington Square, Massachusetts Review, and Third Coast. He attended Princeton on a scholarship and received his MFA from the University of Arkansas. Catherine Kasper is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her poetry and fiction is forthcoming in such journals as Timothy McSweeney’s, American Letters & Commentary, and The Charter Oak Review. Philip Kobylarz has had work appear in Connecticut Review, Scrivener, Pleiades, Witness and Best American Poetry 1997. His book of creative nonfiction, la france: A Speculative Journey, is forthcoming from Upney Editions (Canada). He also writes book reviews for Memphis’ Daily The Commercial Appeal and teaches literature and writing at the University of Memphis. Dale Kushner is a recipient of a Wisconsin Arts Board Grant in the Literary Arts. Her poetry has been widely published in journals including Crazyhorse, Salmagundi, Poetry, Hayden’s Ferry and elsewhere. She has been studying myth and archetypal psychology at the CG Jung Institute in Switzerland and is currently at work on a novel. Stacey Levine is the author the novel Dra—. Her short story collection, My Horse and Other Stories won the 1994 PEN/West fiction award. ‘The World of Barry’ will be published in the forthcoming anthology The Clear Cut Future (Clear Cut Press, 2002). William Logan’s most recent books of poems are Vain Empires and Night Battle (Penguin). His book of essays and reviews, Reputations of the Tongue (Florida), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. He teaches at the University of Florida. Jill McDonough’s work has appeared in Poetry, The Massachusetts Review, and Harvard Review. She was a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. David Matlin Patrick Moran’s poems have appeared in many magazines including The New Republic, The Iowa Review, The Northwest Review and Hayden’s Ferry. He currently teaches in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Linda Lancione Moyer’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Amherst Review, Crazyhorse, Poet Lore, Italian Americana, The MacGuffin and elsewhere. She lives in Berkeley, California. G.E. Murray is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Arts of a Cold Sun (University of Illinois Press, 2003); the Devins Award-winning Repairs…Walking the Blind Dog… and a book-length ‘mystery poem’ Oils of Evening: Journeys in the Art Trade. Murry is co-editor (with Kevin Stein) of Illinois Voices: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Poetry. He occasionally teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and has served as a board director of the Poetry Society of America and PEN/American Center. Martin Ott’s poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in numerous magazines, including Connecticut Review, Hawaii Review, The Midwest Quarterly, National Forum, New Letters, Quality Paperback Literary Review, Rattle, Seattle Review, Soundings East, The Southern California Anthology, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Wisconsin Review, and Yearbook of American Poetry and Magazine Verse. Robert Parham’s work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Connecticut Review, America, Christian Science Monitor, Southern Poetry Review, and many other journals. Poems are forthcoming in Hawaii Pacific Review, Maryland Review and others. His chapbook, What Part Motion Plays in the Equation of Love, appeared last year from Palanquin Press and his collection, The Ghosts of Montparnasse, was a finalist for the Marianne Moore Poetry Prize. Elise Partridge’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in Poetry, The New Republic, The Southern Review, Boulevard, AGNI, Poetry Ireland Review and elsewhere. She is editing a series of lectures by Robert Lowell. John Peck’s Collected Shorter Poems 1966-1996 is slated to appear sometime in 2002 from Northwestern U.P. Allan Peterson’s poetry has appeared in the Bellingham Review, Green Mountains Review, and the Mid-American Review. Work is forthcoming from Pleiades, and the Marlboro Review. Last year he received a fellowship in poetry from the state of Florida. Kathryn Rantala is the founder and co-editor of the Seattle print journal Snow Monkey. Her poetry and prose have appeared widely. Her collection Missing Pieces follows a chapbook, The Dark Man, by some years. Michael G. Richards is the Creative Writing Program Fellow at the University of Notre Dame and the Managing Editor of the Notre Dame Review. His fiction and reviews have appeared in various journals. John Ronan is a poet, teacher and journalist. His work has appeared in Threepenny Review, New York Quarterly, New England Review and in other journals. He has published three chapbooks, including The Curable Corpse (1999). In 1999 he was named a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Poetry. He lives in Gloucester, MA. Michael Salcman is a physician, neuroscientist, and occasional essayist on the visual arts. He served as chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Maryland and is vice-president of the Board of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Harvard Review, The Comstock Review, Poem, The Cape Rock, Whiskey Island Magazine, and the first issue of Stray Dog. His first book of poems, Plow Into Winter, is in need of a publisher. Neil Shepard has published two books of poetry: I’m Here Because I Lost My Way (1998) and Scavenging the Country for a Heartbeat (1992), both from Mid-List Press. Recent poems appear in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Boulevard, and Ontario Review. Shepard teaches in the BFA Writing Program at Johnson State College in Vermont and edits the Green Mountain Review. Richard Spilman has published poetry and fiction in numerous magazines over the past twenty years. Most recently, his poems have appeared in New Letters, Poetry and Hayden’s Ferry Review. His collection of short fiction, Hot Fudge, was a New York Times Notable Book in 1990. Lisa M. Steinman, who teaches at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation, and has published three volumes of poetr: Lost Poems (Ithaca House); All That Comes To Light (Arrowood Books); and A Book Of Other Days (Arrowood Books). Her recent magazine publications include poems in Prairie Schooner, Chariton Review, and The Women’s Review of Books. She also edits the poetry magazine, Hubbub. Donna Baier Stein has received prizes from the Poetry Society of Virginia, a Bread Loaf Scholarship, and a Fellowship from the John Hopkins University Writing Seminars. Her novel Fortune won the PEN New England Discovery Award for Fiction. Her story collection has been a Finalist in the Iowa Fiction Awards. Her work has appeared in New York Stories, Kansas Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Florida Review, and many other journals and anthologies. She is Poetry Editor of Bellevue Literary Review. Robert Stewart’s books include Plumbers (BkMk Press) and Letters from the Living (Borderline). He is Managing Editor for New Letters Magazine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Marcela Sulak’s poetry has appeared in such journals as Kalliope, Borderlands, X-connect, and Greenfuse. She has translated poetry from the French, Czech, and Spanish, and is currently completing a 500-year history of the Sephardic Jews of Venezuela. Arturo Vivante is best known for his short stories. His latest collection is The Tales of Arturo Vivante, and his latest book is Italian Poetry, an Anthology, (a translation). Lately he has been writing plays. He lives in Cape Cod. Daniel Weissbort's latest translation was Selected Poems of Nikolay Zabolotsky (Carcanet). Forthcoming from Anvil Press, in Spring 2002, is a poetry collection, Letters to Ted and From Russian with Love: A Memoir of Joseph Brodsky. Tony Whedan’s poetry and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, and many other magazines. He teaches at Johnson State College and co-edits The Green Mountain Review.