Winter 2003
New Series · Volume XXV Number 1

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contributors

Photo by Joann Carney		 Billy Collins’s latest collection is Nine Horses (Random House, 2002). Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems was published in 2001 by Random House. He was the United States Poet Laureate for 2001-2002.
Wayne Dodd’s new book of poems, IS, will be published by BOA Editions in early 2003. Other recent books are The Blue Salvages (1998) and Of Desire & Disorder (1994), both from Carnegie-Mellon University Press. Dodd received the Ohio Governor’s Award for the Arts in 2001.
  Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. Her most recent publications are The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade (2000) and a new translation of The Kamasutra (2002).
  Carol Muske-Dukes’s new collection of essays, Married to the Icepick Killer: A Poet in Hollywood, was published in 2002 by Random House, which will also publish her collection of poems, Sparrow, in the spring.
  Annie Finch’s collections of poetry include Eve (Story Line Press, 1997) and Calendars (Tupelo Press, forthcoming 2003), both finalists in the National Poetry Series. Her poems have been published in journals including Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, Partisan Review, and Paris Review and in anthologies including Norton’s Anthology of World Poetry and the new Penguin Book of the Sonnet. Finch teaches at Miami University of Ohio.
  Joseph Freda’s second novel, The Patience of Rivers, from which "Dreaming the River" is taken, will be published by W. W. Norton in February 2003. His first novel, Suburban Guerrillas, won an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Short fiction and personal essay credits include Story Quarterly, Coffee Journal, and the Literary Gazette.

Photo by Eleanor Hamilton		 Marilyn Hacker is the author of nine books, including Winter Numbers (W. W. Norton, 1994), which received a Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Award of the Nation magazine and the Academy of American Poets, both in 1995; Selected Poems (W. W. Norton, 1994), which was awarded the Poets’ Prize in 1996; and the verse novel Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons (Arbor House/William Morrow, 1986). Squares and Courtyards was published by W. W. Norton in 2000. A Long-Gone Sun, her translation of Claire Malroux’s poem-narrative of World War II, was published by Sheep Meadow Press in 2000. Here There Was Once a Country, her translation of the poems of Vénus Khoury-Ghata, was published in 2001 by Oberlin College Press. She Says, another translated collection of Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s poems, in a bilingual edition, will be published by Graywolf Press in the spring of 2003. Hacker’s own new collection, Desesperanto, will be published in the spring of 2003 by W. W. Norton. She was editor of The Kenyon Review from 1990 through 1994. She lives in New York and Paris.
Ann Marie Healy is a playwright and performer. Her play Bonnie was produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre in January 2002, and her plays Beach and Summer A Go-Go have been developed with Clubbed Thumb. The works are published by Samuel French and Smith & Krans.
  Roald Hoffmann is a theoretical chemist and writer of poetry, plays, and nonfiction. His fourth poetry collection, Soliton, was published by Truman State University Press in 2002.
  Gail Jones works in the Department of English, Communications, and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia. She is the author of two award-winning books of short stories, The House of Breathing (1992) and Fetish Lives (1997), both published in the United States by George Braziller and translated elsewhere. She recently published her first novel, Black Mirror, with Picador Australia.
  Sheri Joseph’s cycle of stories, Bear Me Safely Over, was published by Grove/Atlantic in April 2002. Other short fiction has appeared in the Georgia Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, and elsewhere.
John Kinsella’s experimental poems will be published by Rattapallax Press in March 2003; his new and selected poems, Peripheral Vision, will be published by Norton in fall 2003.
  Janet McAdams’s collection of poetry, The Island of Lost Luggage (University of Arizona Press, 2000), won an American Book Award. She is a member of the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers.
  Mary Jo Salter’s fifth collection of poems, Open Shutters, will appear from Knopf in the spring. She is Emily Dickinson Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College.
Sherod Santos’s most recent book of poems, The Pilot Star Elegies (W.W. Norton), was a National Book Award Finalist in 1999. A new book of poems, The Perishing, is due from W.W. Norton in 2003.
  Taylor Stoehr is Paul Goodman’s literary executor and has edited many volumes of his work, most recently The Empire City. His book Here Now Next recounts Goodman’s part in the founding of the Gestalt Therapy movement. He has also written widely on cultural and literary history, and teaches in the English department of the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
Arthur Sze’s latest books are The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese (Copper Canyon Press, 2001) and The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998 (Copper Canyon Press, 1998).
  Patricia Vigderman teaches at Kenyon College. Her writing has appeared in the Nation, Parabola, the New York Times, Working Papers, and other publications. She is currently working on an extended meditation about the Boston art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner.

Ellen Bryant Voigt has published six books of poetry––Claiming Kin, The Forces of Plenty, The Lotus Flowers, Two Trees, Kyrie (a National Book Critics’ Circle Award finalist), and most recently, Shadow of Heaven––as well as The Flexible Lyric, a collection of essays. She was awarded the 2002 Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets.
 

Charles Wyatt’s Falling Stones: The Spirit Autobiography of S. M. Jones is the winner of the 2002 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize of the Texas Review Press.

 

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