Contributors

Dan Albergotti lives in Greensboro, NC and is poetry editor of The Greensboro Review. His poems have appeared in Ascent, Southern Humanities Review, Poem, Mississippi Review and many other journals.

Priscilla Atkins serves as the arts librarian at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. She formerly taught in the Poets-in-the-Schools program in Hawaii. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The North American Review, Poet Lore, The Carolina Quarterly and other periodicals. Her work was also included in the anthology, New Poems from the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry (Wayne State University Press, 2000).

Ian Bickford currently lives in Astoria, NY where he works in the public library system. He received his B.A. from the Univ. of CA-Berkeley where his poems were published in The Berkeley Poetry Review and The Sycamore Review.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) is widely considered as one of the finest writers of the 20th Century. Born in Buenos Aires and educated in Europe, he published numerous collections of poems, essays, and fiction, and was the prime mover in that impressive series of novels which included Cortazar’s Hopscotch, Garcia Marquez’ One Hundred Years of Solitude and Cabrera Inante’s Three Trapped Tigers. Carlos Fuentes said, “without Borges the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist.” Director of the National Library of Buenos Aires from 1955–1973, Borges was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, from both Columbia and Oxford. He received various literary awards over the course of his career, including the International Publishers’ Prize (which he shared with Samuel Beckett in 1961), the Jerusalem Prize, and the Alfonso Reyes Prize. His published works in English include: Dreamtigers, Ficciones, Labyrinths, A Personal Anthology, This Craft of Verse (six collected Harvard lectures) and the three volume Collected Works in English, published by Viking-Penguin.

J. W. Bonner has published fiction and criticism in The Quarterly, Tyuonyi, The Greensboro Review, ArtForum and Oyster Boy Review. He is publisher of French Broad Press and a former editor of The Arts Journal. A staff writer and frequent contributor to Asheville Poetry Review, he teaches literature and writing at The Asheville School.

Gaylord Brewer is an associate professor at Middle Tennessee State University, where he founded and edits the journal, Poems & Plays. He has published four collections of poetry: Presently a Beast (1996), Devilfish (1999), Four Nails (2001), winner of the Snail’s Pace Poetry Prize, and the forthcoming Barbaric Mercies (Red Hen Press, 2002). He has published his award-winning work in a wide variety of magazines and journals. His books of criticism include David Mamet and Film (McFarland, 1993) and Charles Bukowski (Twayne/Macmillan, 1997).

Michael R. Brown is professor of Communications at Mount Ida College and was awarded the Ronald J. Lettieri Award for teaching excellence in 1999. He has published his poetry, fiction, essays and columns in a wide variety of periodicals and was a member of the Boston Poetry Slam team that won the National Championship in 1993. He is a key figure in the spoken-word movement and hosts the Boston slam every Wednesday night at the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge, MA. He is co-director of Optimal Avenues, an organization dedicated to artist exchanges between Ireland and the United States and general secretary of the Poetry Olympics, first held in Stockholm in 1998. In 1994, Tia Chucha Press published his collection, Falling Wallendas.

Sally Buckner has taught at every level from kindergarten through graduate school and recently retired after twenty-eight years on the faculty at Peace College. A former journalist, she has published poetry, plays, non-fiction and short stories in many journals and anthologies. In 1991 she was the editor of Our Words, Our Ways, an anthology of NC literature designed to accompany eighth grade studies of state history. Her first collection of poems, Strawberry Harvest, was published by St. Andrews Press in 1996. In 1999 she was the editor of Word and Witness: 100 Years of NC Poetry, published under the auspices of the NC Poetry Society by Carolina Academic Press.

Kathryn Stripling Byer is a former poet-in-residence and teacher at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee and the author of four collections of poetry, including Wildwood Flower, the 1992 Lamont Poetry Selection, The Girl in the Midst of Harvest, which was published in the Associated Writing Programs award series, Black Shawl, which won the 1999 Roanoke-Chowan Award, and her latest from LSU Press in 2002, Catching Light. She has received writing fellowships from the NEA and the NC Arts Council and was awarded the NC Award for Literature in 2001.

Fred Chappell has taught at the University of NC-Greensboro since 1964 and has won the O. Max Gardner Award for teaching excellence. He is one of America’s most versatile writers and critics, having published five novels, two novels-in-stories, two short story collections, a critical prose collection, a reader, and over a dozen books of poetry. His writing has been recognized by many state, national, and international awards, including the Bollingen Prize and the T.S. Eliot Award. His titles include: River, Bloodfire, Wind Mountain, Midquest: A Poem (which gathers the previous volumes), Castle Tzingal, Source, First and Last Words, Dagon, The World Between the Eyes, and his latest collection of poems, Family Gathering, (LSU Press, 2000). His collected essays, A Way of Happening, were published in 1998 by Picador USA. He has served as poet laureate for the state of North Carolina since 1997.

Gillian Clarke was born in Cardiff, Wales in 1937 and has lived there and in Llandysul for most of her life. Her first full-length collection of poetry, The Sundial, appeared in 1978 and in the two decades since, she has become one of the most widely-read writers in Wales, well-known for her readings, radio programs and workshops. Her Selected Poems is one of the most popular volumes of modern Welsh poetry, having gone through seven printings in a dozen years. She was editor of the Anglo-Welsh Review from 1975–1984 and one of the founders of the Ty Newydd Writing Centre in Cricieth. Among her many collections of poetry are Letter From a Far Country (1982), Letting In the Rumour (1989), Harvest at Mynachlog (1990), and The King of Britain’s Daughter (1993). A volume of tribute to her work, Trying the Line, was published by Gomer Press in 1997.

Kris Christensen lives in Spokane, WA and received the 1999 Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship in Literature and a 2001 Artist Trust GAP Award. Her poems have appeared in Kalliope, The Iowa Review, Passages North, Many Mountains Moving, and other journals.

Nancy Kenney Connolly lives in Austin, Texas and has published poems in The Comstock Review, Wellspring, Pembroke Magazine, Roanoke Review, Main Street Rag and The Crucible, among others. Her first collection, The Color of Dust, was a runner-up for the 1999 Oscar Arnold Young Prize. Her latest book, Thirty-Three Shades of Green, collaboration with the artist, Jeannine Sharkey, was published in 2001.

Phebe Davidson is author of several collections of poems, most recently Reaching For Air and her award-winning chapbook, The Plumage of Swans. Her poems have appeared in several periodicals, including The Kenyon Review, The Literary Review, Poetry East, and The Southern Poetry Review. She holds the G. L. Toole Chair in English at the Univ. of SC-Aiken where she teaches and manages the Palanquin Poetry Press.

Stephanie Dickinson was raised in rural Iowa and now lives in the Bowery in New York City. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Mudfish, Cream City Review, Chelsea, Fourteen Hills, Poet Lore and Iron Horse Review, among others. Linear Arts published her first poetry collection, Corn Goddess, in 1997. She has recently finished a novel, entitled Shot.

M. Scott Douglass is publisher and editor of Main Street Rag, established in 1996. His work has appeared in Slipstream, Black Bear Review and The Southern Poetry Review. His first book, Auditioning For Heaven, was published in 2000 and made possible by a grant from the NC Arts and Science Council. For twenty years a dental technician, he’s also coached baseball and basketball, and currently teaches Graphic Design at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, NC.

James Doyle lives in Fort Collins, CO and has published his work in over 200 journals, including The Berkeley Poetry Review, Chelsea, The Chiron Review, Passages North, Poetry, and Writer’s Forum. His most recent collection is The Silk at Her Throat (Cedar Hill Publications, 1999). His poems were also included in Literature: An Introduction to Critical Reading, an anthology published by Prentice Hall in 1996.

Thomas Feeney teaches in the Department of Foreign Languages at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. He has published his original poems and translations in a wide variety of journals, including Hiram Poetry Review, Kentucky Poetry Review and Puerto Del Sol.

Keith Flynn studied at Mars Hill College and the Univ. of NC-Asheville, winning the Sandburg Prize for Poetry in 1985. He is lyricist and lead singer for the nationally acclaimed rock band, The Crystal Zoo, which has produced three albums: Swimming Through Lake Eerie (1992), Pouch (1996), and Nervous Splendor, which is forthcoming in 2002. His poetry has appeared in many journals around the world, including The Colorado Review, Rattle, The Cuirt Journal (Ireland), Word and Witness: 100 Years of NC Poetry, Poetry Wales, and Crazyhorse. He has been awarded the Paumanok Poetry Prize and twice received Pushcart nominations. He has published three collections of his work: The Talking Drum (1991), The Book of Monsters (1994), and The Lost Sea, (Iris Press, 2000). He is founder and managing editor of Asheville Poetry Review.  » MORE

Nick Flynn is a member of Columbia University’s Writing Project, where he serves as an educator and consultant in New York City Public Schools. His poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Nation, The New American Poets: A Breadloaf Anthology, The New England Review, and American Poetry: The Next Generation. His first collection, Some Ether, won the 1999 PEN/Joyce Osterwell Award and the 1999 “Discover”/The Nation Award. His second book, Blind Huber, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in Fall 2002. He is currently studying in Italy on a Amy Lowell Fellowship.

Jeffrey Franklin teaches Victorian Literature and writing at the University of Colorado at Denver and serves as poetry editor for the NC Literary Review. His poems have appeared in Many Mountains Moving, New England Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Plainsongs, Poet Lore, Potomac Review and Shenandoah. He was co-winner of the 2001 Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.

Janice Moore Fuller is Leona Fleming Herman Professor of English at Catawba College in Salisbury, NC, where she also directs the writing program. She won the 1997 Owen Walters Prize for Poetry and teaches a summer workshop at Ty Newydd in Wales. A staff writer for Asheville Poetry Review, she has published poems and articles in numerous magazines and journals. Her first collection, Archeology Is A Destructive Science, was published in 1998 by Scots Plaid Press.

Arielle Greenberg lives in Dedham, MA and teaches at Bentley College. Her poetry has recently appeared in Fence, American Letters & Commentary, Chain, Crayon, Conduit, LIT, and The Indiana Review. Her book reviews and essays have been published in Rain Taxi, Traffic, Electronic Poetry Review and others. Her first book, Given, will be published in Winter 2002 by Verse Press.

Jonathan Greene lives in Frankfort, KY and is editor of Gnomon Press. He is the author of 19 books, including The Lapidary (Black Sparrow, 1969), Quiet Goods (Larkspur, 1980), Trickster Tales (Coffee House, 1985), Les Chambres des Poetes (French Broad, 1990), Inventions of Necessity (Gnomon, 1998) and most recently, A Little Ink in the Paper Sea (Tangram, 2001). He has received fellowships from the NEA, the Southern Federation of State Arts Agencies, and two grants from the Kentucky Arts Council. His poems, essays and translations have appeared in scores of magazines and journals, including Origin, Poetry, Sulfur, The Merton Annual, Quarterly Review of Literature, New Directions 20 and 34 and The American Literary Anthology.

William Harmon is the author of five books of poems, including Treasury Holiday (Wesleyan UP, 1970), which won the Lamont Prize and Mutatis Mutandis (Wesleyan UP, 1985), which was awarded the William Carlos Williams Prize. His other books and anthologies include: Time In Ezra Pound’s Work (UNC Press, 1977), The Oxford Book of American Light Verse (Oxford UP, 1979), The Classic Hundred Poems: All-Time Favorites (Columbia UP, 1990; revised edition, 1998), and five editions of Prentice Hall’s Handbook to Literature. He is James Gordon Hanes Professor in the Humanities at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he has taught for over thirty years.

Noah Hoffenberg is a poet, critic, editor and journalist who lives in North Bennington, Vermont. He is the editor of CRUX Literary Magazine, which contains poetry selected for The Best American Poetry 2002, edited by Robert Creeley. His poems have appeared in The Minnesota Review, The New Delta Review, Troubador’s Best in Rhyming Verse 2000–2001 and others. His first collection of poetry, The Man With Two Heads, will be published by Yeti Press in Summer 2002. Submit to CRUX at hoff1013@sover.net.

Jean Hollander is director of Writer’s Conferences at The College of New Jersey in Hopewell, NJ. Her poems have appeared in many periodicals and anthologies, including The Sewanee Review, American Poetry Review, and The American Scholar. Her first book, Crushed Into Honey, was published by Saturday Press and won the Eileen W. Barnes Award. Another collection, Moondog, won the QRL Book Series Award. Her translation (with Robert Hollander) of Dante’s Inferno was recently published by Random House.

Rachel Hyman is a native of Baltimore, MD who is finishing her senior year in the University Professors Program at Boston University, where she is majoring in Painting, Poetry, and Theory. She is the co-founder of the Boston University Poetry Fanatics and a member of the 2001 Boston National Slam Team. She recently published her first chapbook, entitled Illiteracy: Some Poems.

Pat Jourdan was trained as an artist at Liverpool College of Art and has exhibited her work in England and Ireland. Her poems have appeared in a variety of international journals, including Rialto, Orbis, Poetry Monthly, Poetry Ireland Review, The Cuirt Journal, and Microbe. She has been a broadcaster as well, reading her poems and commentary on BBC’s Radio Four, Radio Norfolk, Flirt FM in Galway and RTE. She has published two collections of her work, The Bedsit Girl and From Berlin to Salthill. She lives in Galway, Ireland.

Jarret Keene was born in 1973, the son of a Tampa firefighter. He recently graduated from Florida State University, where he served as editor of Sundog: The Southeast Review. His Pushcart-nominated stories, essays and verse have appeared in recent issues of 5AM, Connecticut Review, New England Review, Passages North, Poems & Plays and Louisiana Literature. His debut collection of poems, Monster Fashion, is forthcoming in 2002 from Manic D Press. He teaches English at the Univ. of Nevada-Las Vegas.

Daniel J. Langton was born in Paterson, New Jersey and raised in Harlem. He teaches English and Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The Times Literary Supplement and others. His book, Querencia, won the Devins Award in Poetry. His most recent collection is entitled Life Forms.

Lyn Lifshin lives and works in Vienna, Virginia and has published more than 100 books of poetry, including Marilyn Monroe, Blue Tattoo, Cold Comfort, Before It’s Light (which won the Paterson Poetry Award), and Blue Sheets, forthcoming from Black Sparrow Press in 2002. She has also won awards for her non-fiction and has edited four anthologies of women’s writing, including Tangled Vines, Ariadne’s Thread, and Lips Unsealed. Her poems have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines around the world and she is the subject of an award-winning documentary film, Lyn Lifshin: Not Made of Glass. For more information you can contact her website: lynlifshin.com.

Lou Lipsitz lives in Chapel Hill, where he taught Political Science for 30 years at the University of NC. He is now a psychotherapist specializing in men’s issues, and has published three collections of his work: Cold Water, Reflections on Samson and Seeking The Hook (Signal Books, 1997).

Thomas David Lisk teaches at North Carolina State University and lives in Raleigh, NC. His poems have appeared in a number of literary journals, most recently in The Alembic, Arts and Letters, Boulevard, Hayden’s Ferry Review, LIT and Porcupine. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and a collection, A Short History of Pens Since the French Revolution, was published by Apalachee Press in 1991.

Al Maginnes was born in Quincy, Massachusetts and teaches at Wake Tech Community College in Raleigh, NC. His poems have appeared in many journals and magazines, including Poetry, The New England Review, The Georgia Review, The Antioch Review, Shenandoah and Quarterly West. He has been the recipient of a Writer’s Fellowship from the NC Arts Council and is the author of two collections: Taking Up Our Daily Tools (St. Andrews Press, 1997) and The Light in Our Houses (Pleiades Press, 2000), which won Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize.

Antonio Machado (1875–1939) was the leading poet of Spain’s renowned Generation of 1898, so named by Jose Azorin in 1913 to designate a group of young writers who, in the face of defeat (1898) in the Spanish-American War, proclaimed a moral and cultural rebirth for Spain. He spent most of his life in Castile and his best poetry was influenced by its austere and dramatic landscape. His Poesias Completas appeared in 1936. Forced to leave Spain because of his support of the Loyalist cause during the Spanish civil war, he crossed the Pyrenees on foot and died in France a month later. His work, which appears in virtually every anthology of modern Spanish literature, has been a major influence upon the Spanish poets of the latter half of the 20th Century. His titles in English include: Del Camino, 1974 (trans. by Michael Smith, Dulfour Editions, Inc.), Times Alone: Selected Poems, 1990 (trans. by Robert Bly, Univ. Press of New England), Selected Poems, 1990 (trans. by Alan S. Trueblood, Harvard Univ. Press), and Machado’s Writing and the Spanish civil war, 1998 (James Whiston, Liverpool Univ. Press).

Jennifer MacPherson lives in Syracuse, NY and worked as a school psychologist for over 25 years. She is senior editor of The Comstock Review and her poems have appeared in Primavera, The Café Review, Main Street Rag, Mobius, and Midwest Poetry Review, among others. She is the author of four collections, most recently, As They Burn The Theater Down, 1998 from Hale Mary Press.

Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938) is regarded alongside Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Anna Akhmatova as one of the greatest voices of 20th Century Russian poetry. He was born in Warsaw, grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia, and was educated in France and Germany. He first gained fame with the collection, Kamen (Stone), which appeared in 1913. It was followed by Tristia, 1922 and Stikhotvorenia, 1921–25, which confirmed his position in Russian letters. In the ’20s and early ’30s Mandelstam supported himself by working as a journalist, writing children’s books, and publishing translations of Upton Sinclair, Jules Romains, Charles de Coster and others. He was arrested for the first time in 1934 for an epigram he had written on Joseph Stalin in Journey to Armenia, 1933. “And every killing is a treat / For the broad-chested Ossete.” He was exiled to Cherdyn, then Voronezh after a failed suicide attempt in 1937. Mandelstam was arrested again in May 1938 for “counter-revolutionary activities” and sentenced to five years of hard labor. After excessive interrogations in the transit camp, he died in the Gulag Archipelago in Vtoraia rechka near Vladivostok, on December 27, 1938. His body was thrown in a common grave. Mandelstam also wrote a wide range of essays, including Converstions About Dante, which has been considered a masterpiece of modern criticism. In the 1970’s he began to receive international acclaim after two memoirs appeared, written by his widow, Nabezhda. Subsequent translations in America followed: Selected Poems (1973), Complete Poetry (1974), Octets (1976), 50 Poems (1977), Journey to Armenia (1977), Selected Essays (1978), and The Complete Critical Prose and Letters (1979).

David T. Manning is a California native, now living in Cary, NC, and was winner of the North Carolina Poetry Society’s Poet Laureate Award in 1996 and 1998. His work has appeared in Pembroke Magazine, Crucible, Potato Eyes, Chattahoochee Review and other journals. He has published two chapbooks, Negotiating Physics (1999) and Poets Anonymous (2001), both from Old Mountain Press.

Stephen Massimilla teaches at Barnard College and lives in Sea Cliff, NY. His book, Forty Floors From Yesterday, won the 2001 Bordighera Poetry Prize and was followed by a sonnet sequence, Under High Seas, which received the Grolier Prize. His poems have appeared in The Tampa Review, The American Literary Review, Salt Hill Journal, Sonora, The Southern Poetry Review, and many other journals and anthologies.

Gerald McCarthy lives in South Nyack, NY and is the author of War Story (The Crossing Press) and Shoetown (Cloverdale Library). A recipient of awards from the National Writers Union and the NY Council on the Arts, his poetry and fiction have been published in New Letters, TriQuarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, Ohio Review, Rattle, Ploughshares, Nimrod, and other magazines and anthologies. He has also been a visiting artist at The American Academy in Rome and directs a writing workshop in Tuscany, Italy each summer with Colette Inez and Lynn Lauber.

Susan Meyers lives in Summerville, SC and is currently enrolled in the MFA program at Queens College in Charlotte, NC. A past president of the NC Poetry Society, she is the author of Lessons In Leaving, which won the 1998 Persephone Press Book Award. Recent work has appeared in Tar River Poetry, Icarus International, Crazyhorse, and the North Carolina Literary Review.

Thorpe Moeckel was born in 1971 in Ohio and grew up in Georgia. He was recently named a Javits Fellow and a finalist for the Field Poetry Prize and “Discover”/The Nation Award for his manuscript, Odd Botany. Recent poems have appeared in Field, Potomac Review, Cold Mountain Review, Poet Lore, The Distillery, Potato Eyes, and others. A chapbook is forthcoming this spring, entitled Meltlines.

Kelly O is a painter, collage artist and mosaicist who lives in Asheville, NC. She has also worked as a professional actor in theater, film and television, and as a singer with the glamfunk band Superchick & Goodpussy. A sampling of her work is always on exhibit in the online gallery of the House of Nine: houseofnine.com.

Niyi Osundare is a native of Nigeria and regarded by many commentators as the most original and accomplished of contemporary African poets. He has published twelve collections of his work, including two volumes of Selected Poems. His most recent collection is The Word Is An Egg (Kraftgriots, 2000). He has won many national and international awards, including the Commonwealth Prize and the Noma Award, Africa’s most prestigious literary prize. A distinguished literary and cultural critic, Osundare has published important essays on African culture and current affairs and is a long time Professor of English at the University of Ibadan. He is currently a visiting Professor at the University of New Orleans in Louisiana.

Chad Prevost lives in Atlanta, GA and is managing editor of Terminus: A Journal of Art and Literature. He recently completed his M.A. at Georgia State University and published his poems in American Poets and Poetry, Midwest Poetry Review, Rattle, Seattle Review, Sundog: The Southeast Review and others.

Ron Rash grew up in Boiling Springs, NC and now lives in Clemson, SC where he teaches English at Tri-County Technical College and Creative Writing in the Queens College MFA Program in Charlotte, NC. His fiction has won the 1987 GE Younger Writers Award and the 1996 Sherwood Anderson Prize. In 1994 he received an NEA Poetry Fellowship. His poetry and fiction have appeared in many journals and magazines, including Poetry, The Yale Review, The Georgia Review, Oxford American, New England Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Shenandoah and DoubleTake. He is the author of six books: The Night The New Jesus Fell To Earth (1994), Eureka Mill (1998), Casualties (2000), Among The Believers (2000), Raising the Dead (Iris Press, 2002), and the forthcoming novel, One Foot In Eden, which won the 2002 Novello Literary Award and will appear in Fall 2002.

R. Flowers Rivera is a native of Mississippi and now lives in Vienna, VA. She is Assistant Professor of English at the University of the District of Columbia, teaching African American literature and creative writing. She was awarded a grant from the Georgia Arts Council, won the 1999 Peregrine Prize and was a finalist for the 1999 May Swenson Award. Her poems have appeared in American Poets and Poetry, Artisan, Cold Mountain Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Obsidian III and The Southern Review, among others. For more information, contact her website: promethea.com.

Michael Salcman is chairman of the department of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland and vice-president of The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. His manuscript, Plow Into Winter, was a finalist for the Washington Writers’ book competition, and his poems are forthcoming from The Harvard Review, Notre Dame Review, Poem, The Comstock Review, The Cape Rock, Zygote, Whiskey Island, and in the inaugural issue of Stray Dog.

Christopher Salerno is currently teaching freshman writing at NC State University in Raleigh. His poems have appeared in Tar River Poetry, Main Street Rag and Sunstone.

E. M. Schorb lives in Mooresville, NC and is the author of three collections of poetry: 50 Poems (Hill House, NY), The Poor Boy (Dragon’s Teeth Press) and Murderer’s Day (1998, Purdue Univ. Press). He is a recipient of Fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the NC Arts Council, and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. His work has been published in a wide variety of journals, including The Yale Review, The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, Verse, The American Scholar, Stand (England), and The New Welsh Review. His novel, Paradise Square, was winner of the 2000 Grand Prize in Fiction from the Frankfurt e-book Award Foundation.

Ann Silsbee is a musician and composer who lives in Syracuse, NY. Her poetry has recently appeared in The Seneca Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Review, Sow’s Ear Review, and others. A chapbook, Naming The Disappeared, is forthcoming in 2002 and her collection, Orioling, won the 2001 Benjamin Saltman Award and will be published this fall by Red Hen Press.

Marty Silverthorne lives in Greenville, NC where he earned a M.S. from East Carolina University. He received the Sam Ragan Fine Arts Award in 1993 and has been awarded several grants from the NC Arts Council. His poems have appeared in The St. Andrews Review, Carolina Literary Companion, Tar River Poetry, Chattahoochee and others. He has published two chapbooks: Dry-Skin Messiah and Pot Liquor Promises.

Newton Smith is Chairman of the Faculty and teaches professional writing and literature at Western Carolina University. Smith has published his poetry and criticism in a number of literary journals, and was one of the founding editors (along with William Matthews and Russell Banks) of Lillabulero Magazine. He is a staff writer for Asheville Poetry Review and president of the Appalachian Writer’s Association.

Dan Stryk teaches World Literature and Creative Writing at Virginia Intermont College in Bristol, VA. His poetry and prose have appeared in a wide variety of literary journals, including TriQuarterly, Poetry Northwest, Commonweal, The American Scholar, and The Southern Humanities Review. Stryk has been awarded an NEA fellowship and published six collections of his work, most recently, Death of a Sunflower and Taping Images To Walls, forthcoming in 2002 from Pecan Grove Press.

Ryan G. Van Cleave is a freelance photographer, teacher and poet, originally from Chicago, whose work has appeared in recent issues of Shenandoah, The Christian Science Monitor, Notre Dame Review, Ploughshares, Quarterly West and The Iowa Review. His most recent books are Say Hello (Pecan Grove Press, 2000) and the anthology, American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement (Univ. of Iowa Press, 2001), which he co-edited with Virgil Suarez. Van Cleave is the Anastasia C. Hoffman Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Creative Writing.

Richard Marx Weinraub was born in New York City and has been teaching literature and creative writing courses at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan since 1987. His work has appeared in many journals, including The Paris Review, Troubador, Confrontation Magazine, Plains Poetry Journal, Nexus and The Baltimore Review. A collection of his work, Wonder Bread Hill, has been published by the University of Puerto Rico.

Judith Werner lives in New York City and works on behalf of the Habitat For Humanity. She teaches poetry classes and has published her work in several magazines and anthologies, including Rattapallax, where she serves as Senior Editor. She has poems forthcoming in Rattle, Calyx, Comstock Review, South Dakota Review, Medicinal Purposes, and the Sulphur River Review.

Robert M. West is a staff writer for Asheville Poetry Review and teaches at Wake Forest University. He received his Ph.D in English from The Univ. of NC-Chapel Hill where he also served as managing editor of The Carolina Quarterly. His poems and criticism have appeared in a number of literary journals, including Poetry, Pembroke Magazine, Iron Mountain Review, The Cortland Review, The Connecticut Review, and the Southern Poetry Review. He lives in Greensboro, NC.

Nancy J. Wiegel lives in Lakeland, Florida and is editor of White Pelican Review. Her poems have appeared in several journals, including The Tampa Review, Poet Lore, Kalliope and Defined Providence.

Dede Wilson is a native of Louisiana who now lives in Charlotte, NC. She is a former journalist with the Dallas Times-Herald and has published her poems in scores of literary journals, including Spoon River Poetry Review, Iowa Woman, Asheville Poetry Review, Poem, The New Orleans Review and Painted Bride Quarterly. She edited a memoir, Fourth Child, Second Daughter, that appeared in 1998 and has published two chapbooks of her work: Glass (Scots Plaid Press, 1998) and Sea of Small Fears (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2001).

Emily Winakur was born in 1977 and raised in San Antonio, Texas. She received her MFA in poetry from the University of Washington in Seattle and has remained there, teaching writing classes. Her poems have most recently appeared in The Comstock Review.

Seth Zimmerman lives in Oakland, CA and his poems and translations have been published in Willow River, Metamorphoses, The Literary Review, Nimrod, Rattle, Rhino and The Carolina Quarterly, among others.

Fredrick Zydek is a former teacher at the University of Nebraska and the College of Saint Mary who resides in Omaha. He is the editor of Lone Willow Press and the director of a reading series at Unity Center for Oneness. Zydek has published his poems, plays, fiction, reviews and essays in over 800 magazines and journals, including The Antioch Review, Cimmaron Review, New England Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner and Poetry Northwest. He has published four collections of his work, most recently Ending The Fast, which won the Sarah Foley O’Laughlen Award and The Conception Abbey Poems.