Contributors

Contributors Poetry Jim Barnes edits The Chariton Review, and has published new work in The Nation, Chicago Reivew, and Poetry Now. An NEA grant recipient in 1978, his first volume of poetry, forthcoming, is entitled The Fish on Porteau Mountain. Christopher Buckley is presently teaching at California State University, Fresno. He has work forthcoming in Poetry, ironwood, and New England Review. Michael Burkard is currently at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts . His first book, In a White Light, is available from L'Epervier Press, and a new book will be published by Ironwood Press later this year. Douglas Delaney lives in Arlington, Massachusetts, and works for the Grolier Book Shop in Cambridge. Rita Dove's poetry has appeared inAntaeus, Georgia Review, Ohio Review, Paris Review, and other magazines. A chapbook ofher workappearedrecentlyfromPenumbraPress. She is working on a novel. Stephen Dunn's third book of poems is A Circus of Needs, just out from Carnegie-Mellon University Press. Lynn Emanuel teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. Her chapbook, Oblique Light, will be forthcoming from the Slow Loris Press this spring. lorie Graham has new work inAntaeus, The Nation, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Paris Review, and others, and teaches at Murray State University in Kentucky. Denis Johnson's books are The Man Among the Seals (The Stone Wall Press) and Inner Weather (Graywolf Press). He has recent work in The American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, and Poetry. Lawrence Kearney's work has appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, and Massachusetts Review, and new poems are forthcoming in The Paris Review, Michigan QuarterlyReview, and South Shore. He lives on Long Island. Peter Klappert teaches at George Mason University. His poem in this issue "Evreux Burning..." is from a work-in-progress, The Idiot Princess of the Last Dynasty: The Apocryphal Monologues ofDoctorMatthew O'Connor, a collection ofpoems all spoken by the "O'Connor" of Djuna Barnes' novel Nightwood, and all set in Paris on the eve of the Nazi Occupation. Recent portions ofthe bookhave appeared in TheAgni Review, Antaeus, andPoetry. Peter Klappert's firstbook isLuggingVegetables to Nantucket, whichappeared in the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1971. Elizabeth Libbey's first book of poems, The Crowd Inside, is available from CarnegieMellon University Press. She has published recent work in The American Poetry Review, Field, and The New Yorker, and will be teaching at the University of Kentucky in the Fall. Carol Muske's book is Camouflage, from University of Pittsburgh Press. She teaches at University of New Hampshire. Tomi Nagai is working for the Japanese Consulate in Chicago, and plans to travel to Japan to translate women writers in September. THEMISSOURIREVIEW · 147 Howard Nelson lives with his wife and children in Scipio, New York. Sharon Olds has recent poems inPoetry andParis Review. Her first collection, Satan Says, is being considered by publishers. Steve Orlen's book is Permission to Speak (Wesleyan University Press). He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Arizona in Tucson, was a Breadloaf Fellow last summer, and will be returning to Breadloaf this year as a staff assistant. Dennis Saleh's poem in this issue, "Zippers," is from First Z Poems, a signed, limited edition from Bieler Press. His other recent book of poems is 100 Chameleons (New Rivers Press). Sherod Santos was a recipient of the 1978 YMHA Discovery/The Nation Award, and has poems forthcoming inAntaeus, Iowa Review, Poetry, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. A chapbook of his work is forthcoming from the Inland Boat series published by Porch publications at Arizona State University. Gary Soto's books are The Elements ofSan Joaquin and The Tale ofSunlight, both from the University of Pittsburgh Press. He teaches in the Chicano Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley. Elizabeth Spires' poems have appeared in Poetry, The Yale Review, The New Yorker, and other magazines. In 1978 she received an Individual Artist's Grant from the Ohio Arts Council. Pamela Stewart's second full-length book, Cascades, will be out this spring from L'Epervier Press. She teaches at Arizona State University. Mary Swander's poems have apperaed in The Antioch Review, The Iowa Review, The Ohio Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. Her first book...