| Simon Armitage has published
eight collections of poems, including Selected Poems (Faber &
Faber). In 1998 he co-edited The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain
and Ireland Since 1945. He teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University
and lives in West Yorkshire. |
| Massimo Bacigalupo is professor
of English literature at the University of Genoa. His bilingual edition
of Ezra Pound's Post-humous Cantos was published in 2002 by Mondadori.
He has edited and translated into Italian work by Shakespeare, Wordsworth,
Dickinson, Stevens, Frost, Eliot, Heaney, and others, and was awarded
the 2001 Italian National Translation Prize. He lives in Rapallo. |
| David Baker is author of
six books of poems. The most recent, Changeable Thunder, appeared
in 2001 from the University of Arkansas Press. Other poems are forthcoming
in The American Scholar, The Nation, The Iowa Review,
and The New England Review. He is poetry editor at The Kenyon
Review and teaches at Denison University. |
| Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
won the Pulitzer Prize in 1955 and the National Book Award in 1969. Her
first collection, North and South, was published in 1946 and was
followed in her lifetime by A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel,
and Geography III. In 1974 she moved permanently to Boston from
her home in Ouro Prêto, Brazil, and began teaching at Harvard. Her
work has influenced many succeeding poets. |
| Elaine Blair's work has
appeared in The American Scholar and The Nation. |
| Kenneth Bleeth is professor
of English at Connecticut College. His essays have recently appeared in
PMLA and Chaucer's Cultural Geography (Routledge). |
| John Morton Blum is Sterling
Professor Emeritus of history at Yale Universtiy. His books include The
Republican Roosevelt and Liberty, Justice, Order: Essays on Past
Politics. He is at work on Embracing Clio: A Life with History. |
| Debora Greger is the author
of Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters and of God, both published
by Penguin. She teaches in the creative writing program at the University
of Florida. |
| Paul Gruber is the producer
of the Metropolitan Opera Guild's recording series Original Cast.
He is the editor of The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera
and The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Opera on Video. |
| Langdon Hammer is co-editor
with Brom Weber of O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart
Crane (Four Walls Eight Windows). He is author of Hart Crane and
Allen Tate: Janus-Faced Modernism (Princeton) and a professor of English
at Yale University. Currently he is at work on a biography of James Merrill. |
| Jeffrey Harrison's most
recent collection of poems is Feeding the Fire (Sarabande). He
has received a number of awards, including grants from the NEA and the
Guggenheim Foundations, and has been touring on the 2002 Connecticut Poetry
Circuit. |
| Sheila Kohler is the author
of novels The Perfect Place, The House on R Street and Cracks,
and the short story collection Miracles in America, all published
by Knopf. A new collection, Stories from Another World, is forthcoming
from The Ontario Review Press. |
| Michael Miller's poems
have appeared in The Sewanee Review, The Kenyon Review,
The New Republic, The American Scholar, The Southern
Review, and other journals. |
| Edison Miyawaki teaches
neurology and psychiatry at Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston), the
Harvard Medical School, and the University of Kansas Medical Center. His
essays have appeared recently in The Atlantic and elsewhere. |
| Carol Muske-Dukes is the
director of the graduate program in literature and creative writing at
the University of Southern California. She has published six collections
of poems, most recently An Octave Above Thunder. She has also written
three novels—Saving St. Germ, Dear Digby, and Life
After Death—and a collection of critical essays. She lives in
Los Angeles. |
| Peggy O'Brien was born
and raised in western Massachusetts, then spent nearly twenty years living
and teaching in Ireland. She now teaches Irish literature at the University
of Massachusetts in Amherst. Her first collection of poems, Sudden
Thaw, will be published by Orchises this year. |
| Eric Pankey is author of
four collections of poems, including Apocrypha and The Late
Romances (Knopf). He teaches in the MFA program at George Mason University. |
| Charles Simic's most recent
books are Selected Early Poems (Braziller, 2000) and Night Picnic
(Harcourt, 2001). He received the Pulitzer Prize ini 1990 for The World
Doesn't End, and in 1996 Walking the Black Cat was a National
Book Award finalist in poetry. He teaches at the University of New Hampshire. |
| Brian Swann has published
many books of poetry, fiction, poetry in translation, children's books,
and has edited a number of volumes on Native American literatures. |
| Jerry L. Thompson's publications
include The Last Years of Walker Evans (Thames and Hudson, 1997)
and Truth and Photography, an essay collection appearing this fall
(Ivan R. Dee). His photographs are in the collections of the Chicago Art
Institute, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, among other public and private collections. |
| Richard Wilbur, poet and
translator, is author of many books, including New and Collected Poems,
which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. The Disappearing Alphabet,
a book for children and others, was published in 1998, and his recent
collection Mayflies was published by Harcourt Brace. |
| Stephen Yenser is author
of the recent A Boundless Field: American Poetry at Large, as well
as books about Robert Lowell and James Merrill, and the co-editor of the
Collected Poems and the Novels and Plays of James Merrill.
He is professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. |
