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Alexis De Veaux

Beth Baruch Joselow
Is an American poet living in Washington D.C., and has collaborated with various artists in the publication of books of graphic art based on her poems. In 1997 she presented her book, The Fountains of Exhaustion/The April Wars, which she produced in collaboration with Pavel Makov. Mockba was published in collaboration with Dennis O’Neill. Her recent titles include the chapbooks Excontemporary and Writing Without a Muse.

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C. D. Wright
Is the author of a dozen books, including two book-length poems, Deepstep Come Shining and Just Whistle. In 1994 she was named State Poet of Rhode Island, a five-year post. With photographer Deborah Luster, she just published One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana. The project won the Lange-Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. On a fellowship for writers from the Wallace Foundation, she curated a “Walk-in Book of Arkansas,” an exhibition which toured throughout her native state for two years.
Her most recent titles are One Big Self: An Investigation (Copper Canyon, 2007), Like Something Flying Backwards, New and Selected (Bloodaxe Editions, 2007), Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil (Copper Canyon, 2005).
She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts, and awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Lannan Foundation. Steal Away: Selected and New Poems was a finalist for the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize. In 2004 she was named a MacArthur Fellow. In 2005 she was given the Robert Creeley Award and elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Wright is the Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English at Brown University. She lives outside of Providence with her husband, poet Forrest Gander. Their son’s name is Brecht.

Charles Bernstein
Was born in New York City in 1950. He has published 27 collections of poetry including With Strings ( University of Chicago Press, 2001) and Republics of Reality: Poems 1975-1984 (Sun & Moon Press, 2000). His essays are included in My Way: Speeches and Poems ( Chicago, 1999) and Content's Dream: Essays 1975-1984 (reprinted by Northwestern University Press, 2001). He is the editor of Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word (Oxford University Press, 1999) and 99 Poets/1999: An International Poetics Symposium (Duke, 1998). Bernstein is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. More information at his author page at the Electronic Poetry Center http://epc.buffalo.edu/

Cris Alexander

Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno
Is a biographer, translator, painter and poet. His most recent book of poems is Les Mots Anglais.

Edwin Honig

Elizabeth Burns

Forrest Gander (Forrest_Gander@Brown.Edu)
Born in the Mojave Desert of California, Forrest Gander grew up in Virginia, caught between the rural landscape of the Shenandoah Valley and the urban culture of Washington D.C.  His early career and first college degree was in geology, and earth science continues to inform his writing.  His poems and essays, sometimes associated with Eco-Poetics, are characterized by an ethics and poetics of attentiveness to geological and political history, cultural displacement, and musical improvisation.  Displaying innovative formal strategies and a phenomenological bent, Gander’s work often crosses traditional genre boundaries.  His most recent book of essays, A Faithful Existence, is a lyrical exploration of what it might mean to be faithful—in the act of translation, in scientific and spiritual inquiry, in friendship, and in poetry.  His most recent collection of poems, Eye Against Eye, takes places as five long poems, including a sequence in conversation with photographs by Sally Mann. In another sequence, “Burning Towers, Standing Wall” (its title an allusion to 9/11 and to W. B. Yeats), Gander examines Mayan architecture in Mexico, turning, as Publishers Weekly noted, “the visible stones, their 'mutilated stelae' and 'rubbed out glyphs,' into a plea for patience in the face of violence.”  Gander is also a translator whose most recent projects include Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems of Coral Bracho and No Shelter: Selected Poems of Pura López Colomé. With Kent Johnson, Gander has translated two books by the visionary Bolivian wunderkind, Jaime Saenz: Immanent Visitor (a PEN Translation Award Finalist) and the astonishing book length masterpiece, The Night.  Recipient of a Whiting Award for Writers, the Howard Foundation Award, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative Writing,Gander has authored critical essays for numerous journals, including The Nation, The Boston Review, and The Providence Journal.  He is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brown University in Rhode Island.

Harold Bloom

Hermine Pinson (hdpins@wm.edu)
Is an Associate Professor of African/American Literature at the College of William and Mary. She has published two poetry collections: Ashe (1992) and Mama Yetta (1999), both from Wings Press. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Callaloo, African American Review, Common Bonds, Konch, and other journals and literary magazines. She has written critical essays on the poetry of Melvin Dixon, Ntozake Shange, Toni Morrison, Henry Louis Gates, and Melvin B. Tolson. She has received several residential fellowships at such institutions as MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Vermont Studio Center. She was most recently a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Humanities in the Fall of 2000. While there, she worked on a novel entitled, 'In the Land of Ooh Blah Dee'.

Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Is a native of Louisville, Kentucky. He received his BA (Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa) from Howard University. He received his MA and Ph.D. degrees from UCLA. He has taught at Yale, the University of Virginia, and the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, he is the Susan Fox and George D. Beischer Professor of English at Duke University. He is the Editor of American Literature, the oldest and most prestigious journal in American Literary Studies. Professor Baker began his career as a scholar of British Victorian Literature, but made a career shift to the study of Afro-American Literature and Culture. He has published or edited more than twenty books. He is the author of more than eighty articles, essays, and reviews. His most recent books include Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism, Re-Reading Booker T and Critical Memory: Public Spheres, African American Writing and Black Fathers and Sons in America. He is a published poet whose most recent title is Passing Over. He has served in a number of administrative and institutional posts, including the 1992 Presidency of the Modern Language Association of America. His honors include Guggenheim, John Hay Whitney, and Rockefeller Fellowships, as well as eleven honorary degrees from American colleges and universities.

Jefferson Hansen

Joan Retallack
Is the author of six books of poetry including Memnoir, How To Do Things With Words, Afterrimages, and Errata 5uite which won the Columbia Book Award chosen by Robert Creeley. Currently at work on a poetic project, “The Reinvention of Truth,” Retallack is the author of Musicage: John Cage in Conversation with Joan Retallack, Wesleyan University Press, recipient of the America Award in Belles-Lettres. Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary (Palgrave MacMillan, co-edited with Juliana Spahr)came out last year. The Poethical Wager was published in 2004 by the University of California Press which is also bringing out her Gertrude Stein: Selections. A collection of Retallack’s procedural poems will come out from Roof Books in 2008. She has received a Lannan Poetry Grant and is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College.

John Ashbery
Was born in Rochester, New York on 28 July 1927. He received a BA from Harvard (1949) and an MA from Columbia (1951), went to France as a Fulbright Scholar in 1955, and lived and worked there for ten years. Best known as a poet, he has published more than 20 collections, beginning in 1953 with Turandot and Other Poems (Tibor de Nagy Editions). His Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (Viking, 1975) won three major American prizes: the Pulitzer, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent volumes are Wakefulness (1998), Girls on the Run (1999), and Your Name Here (2000), all from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. A selection of his art writings was issued in 1989 as Reported Sightings: Art Chronicles 1957-1987. Ashbery's numerous published translations from French include works by Raymond Roussel, Max Jacob, Alfred Jarry, Antonin Artaud and Pierre Martory. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages.

John TaggarT
Was born in Iowa, raised in Indiana, and educated at Earlham College, University of Chicago, and Syracuse University. He lives in Pennsylvania. During the 60’s and 70’s he edited the literary magazine Maps. His books include Loop (1991), Standing Wave (1993), When The Saints (1999), Pastorelles (2004), and Crosses (2005). His essays on contemporary poetry and poetics were collected in Songs of Degrees (1994), and he has published a study of the painter Edward Hopper, Remaining In Light (1993). His poetry has been translated into French, in particular La Poème De La Chapelle Rothko (1990). He is represented in such anthologies as Moment’s Notice: Jazz In Poetry & Prosre (1993), Artifice and Indeterminacy: An Anthology of New Poetics (1993), Poems For The Millennium (1998), and The Best American Poetry (2002).

Joseph Conte
Conte is Professor of English at the University at Buffalo and a member of the Poetics Program faculty there. His books include Unending Design: The Forms of Postmodern Poetry (Cornell UP, 1991), a series of three volumes of the Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Poets Since World War II (Gale) and a chapbook of poems, Excursions (Veighsmere Press, 1994). A forthcoming book from the University of Alabama Press, Design and Debris: A Chaotics of Postmodern American Fiction, will be published in November, 2001.

Leonard Schwartz
His the author of several collections of poetry, including Words Before The Articulate: New and Selected Poems (Talisman House) and Exiles:Ends (Red Dust Press). He is also the author of a collection of essays A Flicker At The Edge Of Things: Essays on Poetics 1987-1997(Spuyten Duyvil) and co-editor of two anthologies of contemporary American poetry: Primary Trouble and An Anthology of New (American), Poets (Talisman House). He lives in New York City.

Linda Russo

Mark Wallace

Martin Earl
Has published his poems in Conjunctions, The Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, P.N. Review, Metre, Colorado Review. His book, Stundenglas (1992) was published by Edition Maldoror, East Berlin. He is a featured columnist at www.webdelsol.com.

Michael Franco

Michael Basinski
Lives in Lancaster, New York. He has published poems, articles and reviews in more than a hundred journals, and has been working on phonetic poetry, performing his work around the country, and recording it. Among his books of poetry are Mooon Bok, Red Rain Too, Flight to the Moon, Vessels, SleVep, Odelesque, Empty Mirror and Strange Things Begin to Happen When A Meteor Crashes in the Arizona Desert.

Michael Palmer
Was born in New York City and has lived in San Francisco since 1969. He has published ten collections of poetry, most recently At Passages (1995), The Lion Bridge (1998) and The Promises of Glass (1999). His work has been connected with modern dance for more than twenty years. With Régis Bonvicino and Nelson Archer, he recently edited and helped to translate Nothing the Sun Could Not Explain: 20 Contemporary Brazilian Poets (1997).

Nathaniel Mackey
Is a professor of literature at the University of California in Santa Cruz. He has published various chapbooks, such as Outlandish (1992) and Song of the Andoumboulou: 18-20 (1994), as well as books such as Eroding Witness (1985), School of Udhra (1993) and Whatsaid Serif (1998). His poems are also published on a CD with musical accompaniment entitled Strick: Song of the Andoumboulou 16-25 (1995). He is the editor of Hambone, and Adjunct Director of the anthology Moment’s Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose (1993). His literary criticism includes Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing (1993).

Patricia Pruitt
Most recent poetry collections are Windows (Pressed Wafer, 2002) and Sessions: I-IV (Jensen/Daniels, 1998).

Próspero Saíz
Is the author of three books of poems: The Bird of Nothing and Other Poems (1993), Horse (1996) and Chants of Nezahualocoytl & Obsidian Glyph (1996). He is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He published Personae and Poiesis: the poet and the poem in Medieval Love Lyric in 1976, and is the author of various essays on poetic theory. Recently Saíz’s work has challenged the borders between poetry and poetics, as in “Attempt, Contre-Temps. A Lection Concerning lyric Poetry”, in Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, nº 47.

Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan UP, 2001), Draft, unnumbered: Précis ( Vancouver : Nomados, 2003), and the forthcoming Drafts 39-57, Pledge ( Cambridge : Salt Publishing). Her long poem project began in 1986 and is on-going. DuPlessis has also published four books of literary criticism, co-edited three anthologies, and edited The Selected Letters of George Oppen (Duke, 1990). Her most recent critical work is Genders, Races and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934 (Cambridge UP, 2001). Writing Beyond the Ending (1985) and The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice (1990) are also her books.

Richard Zenith
Was born in Washington D.C. in 1956, and has lived in Lisbon for fifteen years where he is a writer and translator. His poems have been published in many journals, and his translations include Fernando Pessoa & Company: Selected Poems (1998), Log Book: Selected Poems of Sophia de Mello Bryner (1997) and 113 Gallician-Portuguese Troubadour Poems (1995). He has edited works by Fernando Pessoa, including Livro do Desassossego (1998) and Heróstrato e a Busca da Imortalidade (2000).

Robert Creeley

Roberta Hill 

Sherry Robbins

Stephen Rodefer
The American writer Stephen Rodefer, who lives in Paris, is the author of One or Two Love Poems from the White World, VILLON by Jean Calais, The Bell Clerk's Tears Keep Flowing, Four Lectures (which was a winner of the American Poetry Center’s Annual Book Award), Oriflamme Day (with Ben Friedlander,Emergency Measures, Passing Duration, Leaving, Erasures, Left Under A Cloud, and Mon Canard, among other titles.
His essay on canon-formation, "The Age in its Cage", appears in a recent issue of Chicago Review, and that literay journal will publish a special issue on his work in 2008. Rodefer’s selected poems, Call It Thought, will be published by Carcanet in the UK next year, and his collected essays, The Monkey’s Donut, are to appear from Kollophon in the UK also in 2008.
In addition to Villon, Rodefer has published translations of Sappho, selections from the Greek Anthology, Catullus, Lucretius, Dante, Baudelaire, Rilke, Frank O’Hara and the Cuban poet Noel Nicola.
His graphic work, LANGUAGE PICTURES, has been exhibited in recent years in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Paris and Prague.
He is presently translating Baudelaire for a collection to be published next year, titled Baudelaire OH/Fever Flowers: Les fleurs du val.

Susan Bee
Is an artist, editor, and designer who lives and works in New York City . She shows her paintings at A.I.R. Gallery in New York City . She has published five artist's books with Granary Books, including collaborations with poets: Bed Hangings , with Susan Howe, A Girl's Life , with Johanna Drucker, and Log Rhythms and Little Orphan Anagram, with Charles Bernstein. She is co-editor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artist's Writings, Theory, and Criticism , with writings by over 100 artists, critics, and poets, that was published by Duke University Press in 2000. Her web site is at http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bee/.

Tom Mandel
Was born in Chicago, and has lived in New York, Paris and San Francisco. As well as being a poet, he works in computer programming in Washington D.C. His poetry has been published in various magazines in America and Europe, as well as in anthologies like Best Poems of 1996 (United States). Of his eight published volumes, the most recent are Absence Sensorium (in collaboration with Don Davidson, recently deceased) and Ancestral Cave.

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