Contributors
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Laylah Ali, a native of Buffalo, New York, has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in a number of cities, including Chicago, New York, Boston, San Francisco, Houston, Seattle, Lucerne (Switzerland), Venice (Italy), and many other cities. In 1994, she received the MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Jericho Brown received the MFA from the University of New Orleans. He is currently studying for the Ph. D. degree in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. This Shreveport, Louisiana, native has published in Role Call, Working Hard for the Money, Bloom, and Callaloo.
Nehassaiu Degannes is author of Percussion, Salt & Honey (Providence Athenaeum, 2001), a chapbook of poems, which won her the Philbrick Poetry Prize. She has also published poems in a number of periodicals, including American Poetry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Callaloo. After completing the MFA in creative writing at Brown University, she completed a three-year graduate acting program at Trinity Rep Conservatory in Providence, Rhode Island.
Thomas Sayers Ellis, one of the founders of the Dark Room Collective, is an associate professor of English at Case Western University, where he teaches courses in creative writing and African-American literature. His first volume of poetry, The Maverick Room, will be published by Graywolf Press in 2005. He is also author of the chapbook The Genuine Negro Hero (Kent State University Press, 2001), one of the three poets collected in the anthology, Take Three (Graywolf Press, 1996), and co-editor of On the Verge: Emerging Poets and Artists (New Cambridge Press, 1994). He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
Forrest Hamer is author of Middle Ear (Roundhouse Press, 2000), winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Award, and Call & Response (Alice James Books, 1995), winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award. His work has appeared in many journals and has been anthologized in Poets Choice: Poems for Everyday Life, The Geography of Home: California Poetry of Place, and Making Callaloo: 25 Years of Black Literature (St. Martin's Press, 2001), and in the 1994 and 2000 editions of The Best of American Poetry. Hamer is a practicing clinical psychologist in Oakland, California.
Alysa Hayes is an undergraduate student at Texas A&M University, where she is majoring in computer science and minoring in English and Spanish. Currently, she is studying Spanish and culture in Mexico.
Terrance Hayes is an associate professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He is also the author of two volumes of poems, Muscular Music (Tia Chucha Press, 1999) and Hip Logic (Penguin, 2002), and has been the winner of numerous awards and prizes, including Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the National Poetry Series, and the Whiting Writers Award. Wind in a Box, his third volume, will be published in 2005 by Penguin. [End Page 1088]
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is author of two books of poems, The Gospel of Barbecue (Kent State University Press, 2000) and Outlandish Blues (Wesleyan University Press, 2003). Some of her new work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Callaloo, Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz and Literature, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, and the anthology These Hands I Know: Writing About the African-American Family. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Oklahoma and a book review editor of Callaloo.
A. Van Jordan is author of two books of poems, Rise (Tia Chucha Press, 2001), winner of the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, and M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A (Norton, 2004). This Ohio native teaches at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
Ruth Ellen Kocher, an assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri at St. Louis, Missouri, is author of three collections of poetry, Desdemona's Fire (Lotus Press, 1999), When the Moon Knows You're Wandering (New Issues, University of Western Michigan, 2002), and One Girl Babylon (New Issues, University of Western Michigan, 2003).
Fred Moten teaches at the University of Southern California. He has published a number of poems and interviews in such periodicals as nocturnes, Grand Street, The World, boundary 2, Five Fingers Review, Poetry Project Newsletter, and Callaloo. His scholarly articles have appeared in many journals and...
