Contributors' Notes Susie Brandt teaches textile/fabric art at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, and has had solo exhibitions at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, the Philadelphia International Airport, Abel Joseph Gallery (Brussels), and elsewhere.
Geoffrey Brock is the author of Weighing Light, winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize, and four book-length translations of Cesare Pavese, Umberto Eco, Roberto Calasso, and Antonia Arslan. He is currently working on a bilingual anthology of 20th-century Italian poetry for Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. He teaches in the the Arkansas Programs in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas.
Peter Campion teaches at Washington College in Maryland. He's the author of a book of poems, Other People (University of Chicago, 2005).
Daniel Groves lives outside Boston. His poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Poetry, and elsewhere.
Ben Howard is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Dark Pool (Salmon), and taught at Alfred University for 40 years.
Mark Jarman is the author of Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry from the University of Michigan Press and To the Green Man, a collection of poetry, from Sarabande Books. Epistles, a collection of his prose poems, will appear from Sarabande Books in 2007. He teaches at Vanderbilt University.
Alexander Long's Vigil was published by New Issues (2006). Co-editor of A Condition of the Spirit: the Life & Work of Larry Levis (Eastern Washington UP, 2004), Long is also the author of a chapbook, Six Prose Poems (Brandenburg Press, 2004).
Lance Newman's poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Dusie, Pemmican, nthposition, Stride, Streetnotes, Fringe, identity theory, Blue Collar Review, Poets Against the War, Negative Images, New Collage, and Perigee. He teaches Literature and Writing Studies at Cal State San Marcos and has worked for sixteen years as a guide in the Grand Canyon.
John Poch is poetry editor of the journal 32 Poems. His first book, Poems (Orchises Press), appeared in 2004. His work has appeared in many journals, and in 2004, he was a Howard Nemerov Fellow at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. He teaches at Texas Tech University.
Jennifer Reeser is the author of two poetry collections, An Alabaster Flask, and Winterproof, forthcoming also from Word, and a Spoken Word CD. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Salt, The Dark Horse, The Formalist, The New Laurel Review, Louisiana Literature, and Pivot.
J. Allyn Rosser has won this year’s New Criterion Poetry Prize, and her new collection, Foiled Again, will be published this Fall by Ivan R. Dee. Her previous books are Misery Prefigured, and Bright Moves. Her work has appeared recently in Slate, Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The Kenyon Review, and Best American Poetry 2006. She teaches at Ohio University.
A. E. Stallings is an American poet residing in Greece. She has
published two collections of poems, Archaic Smile and Hapax. Her new verse translation of Lucretius, The Nature of Things, is due out from Penguin Classics in July.
Ida Stewart writes and teaches in Columbus, Ohio, where she is an MFA candidate at Ohio State—though her heart resides in the West Virginia hills. She's grateful for this, her first publication.
Greg Williamson has two books of poetry, The Silent Partner, published by Story Line Press, and Errors in the Script, published by Overlook Press. He teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.