Contributor’s Notes

 

 

 

Andrea Baker won a 2004 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for her short-work entitled Gilda, and was the winner of the 2004 Slope Editions Prize for her full-length collection, Like Wind Loves a Window, which is due out in the Spring of 2005. Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Fence, How 2, La Petite Zine, Lit, St. Elizabeth Street, Vert, and Volt. She is a Poetry Editor with 3rd Bed and lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and son.

 

Aase Berg has three books of poetry out in Sweden (Hos Radjur, Mork Materia and Forsla Fett). Johannes Goransson's translations of her work can be found most recently in Circumference, La Petite Zine, Double Room and, upcoming, in Jubilat and Bitter Oleander.

 

Daniel Borzutzky teaches in the English Department at Wright College in Chicago.  His first book, Arbitrary Tales, will be published in 2005 by Ravenna Press.  His poems and fiction have appeared in many journals, with recent work appearing, or soon to appear, in American Letters and Commentary, Antennae, Blaze Vox, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Golden Handcuffs Review, La Petite Zine, LIT, Magazine Cypress, Mississippi Review, Pom², Salt Hill and Spoon River Poetry Review.

 

Cyrus Console spent the summer at Bard and has work in No: a journal of the arts.

 

Brandon Downing's books include The Shirt Weapon (Germ Monographs, 2002) and Lazio (Blue Books, 2000). His new collection, Dark Brandon, will be out early next year, and it's crazy as fuck. He lives in New York Shitty.

 

Jeffrey Encke has recently published Most Wanted: A Gamble in Verse, a deck of playing cards featuring excerpts of love letters written to Saddam Hussein and other war criminals, available at www.matlub.net. His poetry has recently appeared in Barrow Street, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Salt Hill, 3rd Bed, and Quarterly West, among others.

 

Clayton Eshleman is known for his work as a poet, an editor, and a translator, having won such awards as National Book Award and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has published over 40 books of poetry over the past 40 years. His most recent book, My Devotion, was published by Black Sparrow Press.

 

Kevin Fitzgerald’s prose-poems and reviews have appeared in 88, Bathhouse, Rain Taxi, First Intensity, Flashpoint, Vert and elsewhere. Furniture Press recently published his serial poem triangle shirtwaist fire. New work is forthcoming in Wild Strawberries. After sojourns in the Bay Area and New York City, he now keeps it real in Baltimore.

 

Kevin A. Gonzalez is a Martha Meier Renk Fellow in the MFA Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He has recent work in Callaloo, Indiana Review, North American Review, Crab Orchard Review, Hotel Amerika and From the Fishouse.

 

Other poems from Johannes Goransson's Dear Ra go-around can be found in Typo, Double Room, In Posse and Skidrow Penthouse. He's working on translations from Swedish avant-garde poets from the 1920's to current times.

 

Gabriel Gudding's first book, A Defense of Poetry, won the Starrett Prize and was published in the Pitt Poetry Series in November 2002. His work appears in places like New American Writing, Fence, Jacket, APR, Conduit, Lit, The Nation, Sentence, and Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner 2003). He's an assistant professor of English at Illinois State University.

 

Barbara Guest graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, went to New York City, and is connected to the New York School of Poets. At present she lives in Berkeley. She is the recipient of the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Work in Poetry. She has published many books of poetry. Her recent book of poetry, The Red Gaze, will appear from Wesleyan.

 

Poems-For-All for Richard Hansen has always been about his desperate attempt to retain an engaged creative process in his life, something that keeps him inspired, something that gives instead of takes. He turned 38 in November. He has been married almost 10 years and has a six-year old daughter.

 

Michael Heller’s most recent volume of poetry is Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems (Salt Publishing, 2003).  Among his many books are Convictions Net of Branches , In The Builded Place , Wordflow and Living Root: A Memoir.   His new collection of essays, Uncertain Poetries, is forthcoming.

 

Brian Henry is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Graft, which appeared in both the U.S. and England in 2003. He lives in Athens, GA.

 

Michael Ives is a writer and musician living in the Hudson Valley. Most recently, he has poetry and prose in the “Beyond Arcadia” issue of Conjunctions. A collection of his prose “devices” entitled, The External Combustion Engine , is forthcoming from Futurepoem Books. He teaches at Bard College .

 

Dan Kaplan’s work recently appears or is forthcoming in Barrow Street, Third Coast, Pool, Indiana Review, Good Foot, can we have our ball back?, and elsewhere. His chapbook Skin, a letterpress, bilingual edition produced in collaboration with Cuban artist Julio Cesar Peña and translator Maria Vargas, will be published by Red Hydra Press later this year.

 

Kirsten Kaschock’s first book of poetry, Unfathoms, is available from Slope Editions.  She is currently a PhD student at the University of Georgia.  Kirsten holds MFAs in Choreography from the University of Iowa and in Creative Writing from Syracuse University.

 

Aaron Kunin lives in Connecticut.  A book of poems, Folding Ruler Star, is forthcoming from Fence Books.

 

Pasha Malla lives in Montreal, which he enjoys very much.

 

Sarah Manguso is the author of The Captain Lands in Paradise (2002). With Jordan Davis she is coeditor of the anthology Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books (2004). Her poems and prose have appeared in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies, The American Poetry Review, The Believer, Boston Review, The London Review of Books, McSweeney's, The New Republic, and The Paris Review. Educated at Harvard (A.B.) and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (M.F.A.), she was the Hodder Fellow in Poetry at Princeton in 2003–2004. She teaches in the Pratt Institute’s B.F.A. program in writing and in the New School’s M.F.A. program in poetry, and lives in Brooklyn.

 

Seth Parker is from Signal Mountain, TN, and is the founder and editor of Skein magazine. He is currently a student in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

 

Allan Peterson: Books: Anonymous Or ;  Chapbooks: Stars On A Wire; Small Charities. Recent Print: Gettysburg Review; Many Mountains Moving; Front Range; West Wind; Arts & Letters: Poetry East; Freshwater; Northwest Review. Recent Online : Agni; Blackbird; Drexel Online Journal; Stickman Review; The King's English; Story South; Typo. Work forthcoming: Prairie Schooner; Quarterly West; Beloit Poetry Journal; Mid America Review. Awards:  2002 Arts & Letters Poetry Prize; Florida Arts Council Fellowship; NEA Fellowship.

 

Eugene Ostashevsky is working on a book of poems about how nothing is known. DJ Spinoza and MC Squared appear in most of them.

 

Thibault Raoult was born in France, raised in Rochester, NY and is currently a Dolin Scholar at the University of Chicago. He co-edits Coalesce: an enzyme. In addition to performing with his rock ensemble, he is completing a manuscript of poems, entitled Umbilical Amendment. In Spring 2003 he won the Writers at Chicago Competition. Thibault Raoult is 6’6”.

 

Donald Revell is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently of Arcady (Wesleyan, 2002) and of My Mojave (Alice James, 2003). He has also translated two volumes of the poems of Guillaume Apollinaire, Alcools (Wesleyan, 1995) and The Self-Dismembered Man (Wesleyan, 2004). Revell lives in Las Vegas, Nevada and is a Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Utah.

 

Anthony Robinson lives in Eugene, Oregon, where he co-edits The Canary and teaches English. He is a slightly worse golfer than Nick Twemlow. Visit his blog at: luckyerror.blogspot.com.

 

Emily Rosko is a Stegner Fellow.  Her poems currently can be found in Tarpaulin Sky and Another Chicago Magazine.

 

Standard Schaefer’s first book of poetry Nova was selected for the National Poetry Series in 1999 and published by Sun and Moon Books.  His second book Water and Power will appear in early 2005 from Agincourt Press.  He’s currently the non-fiction editor of The New Review of Literature.  He recently relocated to San Francisco.

 

Matthew Shindell lives and writes in San Diego, California where he has recently begun work on a PhD in History of Science at UCSD. Shindell holds two degrees in biology from Arizona State University, both focusing on the social and historical dimensions of science. His work has involved the interplay of 19th Century political movements and concepts of heredity, and more recently the role of traditional geologic exploration and mapping in space-age planetary science on the Moon and Mars. Shindell holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa.

 

Dale Smith edits Skanky Possum magazine with Hoa Nguyen and lives in Austin, Texas. Recent poems, essays and reviews can be found in the Chicago Review, Jacket and First Intensity. His books, American Rambler and The Flood & The Garden, are available through SPD.

 

Hope J Smith grew up in Chicago and now lives in Washington, D.C., the country's only jurisdiction whose congressional votes are not counted. Her work can also be found on gutcult.com.

 

Craig Morgan Teicher has poems appearing in The Paris Review, American Letters & Commentary and Pleiades, as well as reviews appearing in Boston Review, Chelsea and elsewhere.  He was a runner-up for the 2004 New York Chapbook fellowship from the Poetry Society of America and is completing his MFA at Columbia University.  He teaches in New York City.

 

Nick Twemlow’s poems have lately appeared or are forthcoming in Verse, Colorado Review, and LIT. He co-edits The Canary (issue four coming in April 2005), and lives in Chicago, with his wife, Robyn Schiff. A Fulbright Fellow for 2005, he will spend the year in New Zealand, attempting to come to terms with his fear of great white sharks.

 

G.C. Waldrep's first book, Goldbeater's Skin, won the 2003 Colorado Prize, judged by Donald Revell. Recent work in Gettysburg Review, American Letters & Commentary, Barrow Street, Tin House, Colorado Review, Hambone, & Quarterly West.  He currently divides his time between North Carolina & Iowa. These five poems are from his new manuscript, Archicembalo.