The Kenyon Review — Spring 2005


	Spring 2005 New Series · Volume XXVII Number 2 Contents · Contributors · Selections · Editor's Notes & Cover Art

contributors
		DAVID BAKER’S new volume of poetry, Midwest Eclogue, is forthcoming in the fall from W.W. Norton.
		JILL BIALOSKY is the author of two books of poetry, The End of Desire (Knopf, 1997), Subterranean (Knopf, 2001), and a novel, House under Snow (Harcourt, 2002). Her poems and essays have appeared in Paris Review, Poetry, New Yorker, and American Poetry Review. She lives in New York City.
		LINDA BIERDS’S seventh book of poetry, First Hand, will be published in April by Putnam. She teaches in the M.F.A. program at the University of Washington and is the recipient of fellowships from the Ingram Merrill, Guggenheim, and MacArthur foundations.
		ROBERT OLEN BUTLER has published thirteen books, one of which, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His new book of short stories, Had a Good Time (Grove Press), is based on his collection of antique picture postcards.
photo by Doug Macomber		MARTHA COLLINS’s book-length poem Blue Front, from which the excerpts in this issue are taken, is forthcoming from Graywolf. She has also published four collections of poems and cotranslated two volumes of poems from Vietnamese, most recently Green Rice by Lam Thi My Da (Curbstone, 2005). She also has a chapbook forthcoming from Barnwood Press. She is Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College, where she also serves as one of the editors of Field.
		CARL DENNIS’s eighth book of poems, Practical Gods, won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. His New and Selected Poems 1974-2004, was published in 2004.
		FANNY HOWE’s most recent publications include Economics (short stories; Flood Editions), Gone (UC Press), and The Wedding Dress (UC Press). She teaches at the New School.
		BRAD KESSLER is the author of Lick Creek (Scribner, 2001) and a forthcoming novel, The Kingfishers.
photo: Jim Peters		ROMULUS LINNEY is the author of three novels, many stories, and over thirty plays, staged throughout the United States and abroad. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
		MIRANDA F. MELLIS is currently completing a trilogy of novellas and a graphic novel. She edits the interdisciplinary publication Encyclopedia. Her work has been published in Cabinet, Fence, BeeHive, h2so4, Nerve Lantern, and elsewhere. In 2004 she received an M.F.A. from Brown University’s Literary Arts Program and was awarded the John Hawkes Memorial Prize for Fiction and the Michael S. Harper Praxis Prize.
		CARL PHILLIPS is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently The Rest of Love (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004). Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry was published by Graywolf in 2004.
		MARY RECHNER is a recipient of a 2003 Oregon Literary Fellowship from Literary Arts. She has published work in the English Journal and other literary magazines and recently completed her first novel, Blood. She is currently finishing her M.F.A. at Antioch University, Los Angeles.
		ROGER ROSENBLATT’S most recent book of essays is Anything Can Happen (Harcourt, 2003). His first novel, Lapham Rises (Ecco Press, HarperCollins), will be published later this year.
		PETER RUTKOFF and WILL SCOTT have worked together for twenty-five years. At Kenyon College they teach American Studies and history, respectively, and are the authors of New School: A History of the New School for Social Research and New York Modern: The Arts and the City. Between 1997 and 2000 they jointly held the NEH Chair in Distinguished Teaching at Kenyon where they developed the award-winning course “North by South.” They are currently completing their new book, Fly Away: The Great African American Migration, from which their Kenyon Review essay is taken.
		CHARLIE SMITH is the author of Women in America (W. W. Norton, 2004), and five other poetry books as well as a half dozen novels. He is the recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. He lives in New York City.
		PRISCILLA SNEFF has received writing grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She teaches at Tufts University.
		CHASE TWICHELL’S new book, Dog Language, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon. She is the editor of Ausable Press.
		ANTHONY WINNER, an emeritus professor of English, is the author of Characters in the Twilight (University Press of Virginia, 1981) and Culture and Irony: Conrad’s Major Novels (University Press of Virginia, 1988). He cross-dresses memoir and fiction, as in the now-completed “My Fiction.”
photo by Nancy Barber		TERRI WITEK is the author of Fools and Crows (Orchises Press, 2003), Courting Couples (winner of the 2000 Center for Book Arts Prize), and Robert Lowell and Life Studies: Revising the Self (University of Missouri Press, 1991). She teaches at Stetson University.
		DAVID WOO is the author of a book of poems, The Eclipses (BOA Editions, April 2005). His work has appeared in New Yorker, Georgia Review, Southwest Review, and other journals and anthologies.
		CHARLES WRIGHT teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000) is his most recent book.

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