Spring 1997
New Series · Volume XIX Number 2

Contents · Contributors · Editor's Notes & Cover Art

contributors
  ROSA ALCALÁ of Paterson, New Jersey, is a translator of Spanish and writes poetry in both Spanish and English. Her translation of Cecilia Vicuna's Palabra e Hilo (Word and Thread) was recently published by Morning Star Publications, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  AGHA SHAHID ALI's seventh published collection, The Country with¬out a Post Office, is forthcoming this spring from Norton and includes poems in this issue. He is director of the M.F.A. program in creative writing at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
RENEE ASHLEY’s collection, SALT, won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry (University of Wisconsin Press, 1991). She has received The Kenyon Review Award for Emerging Writers and the Award for Literary Excellence.
  DAVID BOTTOMS is author of four books of poems and two novels, most recently Armored Hearts: Selected and New Poems (Copper Canyon, 1995). He has received the Walt Whitman Award, Levinson Prize, Ingram Merrill Award, and the Award in Literature of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
  TRENT BUSCH's poems have appeared in Poetry. Hudson Review, North American Review, Southern Review. Georgia Review, and elsewhere. He owns a small place in the country where he has a workshop and builds furniture.
  Recent and forthcoming poems of RICHARD CHESS appear in the New England Review, TriQuarterly. Bellingham Review, Prairie Schooner and in the anthologies The Sacred Place and A Fertile Spirit (Beacon). He directs the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina-Asheville.
  ANDRE DUBUS's most recent book is Dancing After Hours (Knopf, 1996; Vintage, paper 1997), a collection of short stories. In 1996 he received the Rea Award for the short story.
  IRVING FELDMAN's most recent collection is The Life and Letters (University of Chicago, 1994). He teaches English at the State University of New York-Buffalo and has been a MacArthur Fellow.
  TESS GALLAGHER is author of a book of short stories, The Lover of Horses, a book of essays, A Concert of Tenses, and several books of poetry, her latest being Moon Crossing Bridge and Portable Kisses Expanded in America and My Black Horse and Portable Kisses in Britain. A new story collection, At the Owl Woman Saloon, will be published this summer by Scribner. Gallagher is visiting professor of English this year at Whitman College.
  RUTH HAMEL's short stories have appeared in publications including Northwest Review. Another story has been accepted by Missouri Review.
  EDWARD HIRSCH, who teaches at the University of Houston, has published four books of poems. His new book, The Lectures on Love, will appear from Knopf this year.
JANE HIRSHFIELD's latest book of poems, The Lives of the Heart, is due out soon from HarperCollins. It follows The October Palace (Harper-Collins, 1994). She has received the Poetry Center Bede Award, Bay Area look Reviewers Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations.

 

 

 MARK IRWIN's books of poems are The Halo of Desire (Galileo, 1987), Against the Meanwhile (Wesleyan, 1989), and Quick, Now, Always (BOA, 996). He has also published two books of translations, and his poetry has appeared in The Kenyon Review.
  ANN KENISTON has poems forthcoming in Pequod and River Styx. A doctoral candidate in English at Boston University, she lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
  REGINALD McKNIGHT lives and writes in Baltimore and is a member f the English faculty at the University of Maryland.
  ALYCE MILLER's book The Nature of Longing won the Flannery ('Connor Award and was prepublished in paperback by W. W. Norton. Her novel in progress, Stopping for Green Lights, is under contract. Recent work as appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, Southwest eview, and Witness.
  MARY JANE NEALON is a registered nurse working with HIV/AIDS. he has been awarded a second fellowship in poetry at the Fine Arts Work enter in Provincetown following her first award in 1995-96. She has poetry forthcoming in the Chiron and Paris Review and in Things Shaped in Passing, fore "Poets for Life" Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (Persea, 1997).
  JENNIFER O'GRADY's poems have appeared or are forthcoming i Harper's, Poetry, Yale Review, Georgia Review, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. She is seeking a publisher for her first collection, Singular Constructions.
  DONALD REVELL is author of five collections of poetry, most recently Beautiful Shirt from Wesleyan University Press. Wesleyan has also published his translation of Alcools by Guillaume Apollinaire. Revell teaches English and creative writing at the University of Utah.
  CHRISTOPHER RICKS teaches at Boston University. He has recently iblished Essays in Appreciation and an edition of T. S. Eliot's early un-published poems. He is a member of the Association of Literary Scholars id Critics.
  STAN SANVEL RUBIN is director of the Brockport Writers Forum and jads the videotape library programs at the State University of New York-Brockport. Recent and forthcoming poetry appears in Virginia Quarterly
  CHARLES SIMIC- most recent book of poems is Walking the BU Cat from Harcourt Brace.
  ROBERT THOMAS’s poems have most recently appeared in Shenandoah (Fall 1^61 and are forthcoming in Agni, Antioch Review, and Iowa Review. He attended the University of California at Santa Cruz and works as a legal secretary in San Francisco. Plush Fire was a finalist in the IS National Poetry Series competition.
  ALEXANDER THORBURN lives in St. Louis.
  ANTHONY WINNER teaches literature at the University of Virginia He is the author of Characters in the Twilight: Hardy, Zola, and Chekov (University of Virginia, 1981) and Culture and Irony: Studies in Conra Major Novels (Virginia, 1988).
CHARLES WRIGHTs most recent book is Chickamauga (1995). Black Zodiac will be published this month by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Wright lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
  NANCY ZAFRIS is the author of People I Know, a collection of short stories that won the 1990 Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction.

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