notes on contributors

195 Marvin Bell has been called “an insider who thinks like an outsider .” His nineteenth book of poetry, Mars Being Red, was released by Copper Canyon Press in 2007. Retired from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he teaches for the low-residency MFA based in Oregon at Pacific University and divides the year between Iowa City and Port Townsend, Washington. He has collaborated with composers, musicians , and dancers and often performs with the bassist Glen Moore of the jazz group Oregon. He is the creator of what are known as the “Dead Man” poems, for which he is both famous and infamous. Remica Bingham is a native of Phoenix, Arizona, and received her MFA in writing and literature from the Writing Seminars at Bennington College. She has attended the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshops and is a Cave Canem Fellow. Her work has been featured in 5 AM, New Letters, PMS, Crab Orchard Review, Gulf Coast, Mosaic, Essence, and other journals. She is the recipient of the 2005 Hughes, Diop, Knight Poetry Award and was nominated for a 2005 Pushcart Prize. Her first book of poetry, Conversion, won the 2007 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award and was published by Lotus Press in 2006. She is currently working on a book of interviews with African American poets and has recently completed her second book of poetry, What We Ask of Flesh. She resides in Norfolk, Virginia, where she serves as the writing competency coordinator at Norfolk State University. Deborah Bogen is a Pittsburgh poet whose full-length collection, Landscape With Silos (Texas A&M University Press, 2006), was a 2004 National Poetry Series Finalist and won the 2005 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. An earlier chapbook was selected by Edward Hirsch as the 2002 ByLine Press Competition winner. Her poems and reviews appear widely in print journals and online. Every Monday night for the past seven years, she has run a free writing workshop in her living room in Pittsburgh. You can visit her website at www.deborahbogen.net. notes on contributors 196 Ecotone: reimagining place Patrick Carrington is the poetry editor at Mannequin Envy (www. mannequinenvy.com), and author of Thirst (Codhill, 2007), Rise, Fall and Acceptance (Main Street Rag Press, 2006), and the forthcoming Hard Blessings (Main Street Rag Press, 2008). His poetry will be appearing in The Connecticut Review, Sycamore Review, Tar River Poetry, American Literary Review, Columbia Poetry Review, and other journals. Camille Dungy is the author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006), which was a finalist for the PEN Center USA 2007 Literary Award and the Library of Virginia 2007 Literary Award. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Dana Award, and Bread Loaf, and was the assistant editor of Cave Canem’s Gathering Ground (University of Michigan Press, 2006). She is currently an associate professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University. Krista Franklin is a poet and visual artist from Dayton, Ohio who lives in Chicago. Her poems and visual art have appeared in several publications including Clam, Callaloo, nocturnes 2: (re)view of the literary arts, MiPOesias.com, and in the anthologies Bum Rush, The Page: a def poetry jam, and Gathering Ground. Her collages have been published on the covers of award-winning books and she has exhibited nationally in solo and group exhibitions. She is a Cave Canem Fellow who has performed her poetry internationally, and she is the co-founder of 2nd Sun Salon, a community meeting space for writers, visual and performance artists, musicians and scholars. You can visit her website at www.kristafranklin.com Keith Flynn is the author of five books, including four collections of poetry: The Talking Drum (Animal Sounds, 1991), The Book of Monsters (Urthona Press, 1994), The Lost Sea (Iris Press, 2000), and The Golden Ratio (Iris Press, 2007), and a collection of essays, entitled The Rhythm Method, Razzmatazz and Memory: How To Make Your Poetry Swing (Writer's Digest Books, 2007). From 1987–1998, he was lyricist and lead singer for the nationally acclaimed rock band, The Crystal Zoo, which produced three albums: Swimming Through...