Contributor Notes
- Contributor Notes
A recent graduate of Harvard College, Matthew Aucoin is a poet, composer, and conductor, recently appointed Assistant Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera and composer-in-residence at the Peabody Essex Museum. His poetry and prose have appeared in the Harvard Advocate, the Boston Globe, the Gamut, and Plain China.
David Bartone lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, and teaches at UMass Amherst. Poems recently appeared in Denver Quarterly, Mountain Gazette, Aldus: A Journal of Translation, iO: A Journal of New American Poetry, and Verse Online.
Stephen Berg has published several books of poetry and prose poetry, including Grief, In It, With Akhmatova at the Black Gates, The Steel Cricket, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Halo, Shaving, Rimbaud: Versions & Inventions, The Elegy on Hats, and 57 Poems. He teaches at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Amy Bernhard is a current student in the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. Her essays appear or are forthcoming in Ninth Letter, the Journal, and Waccamaw.
Laurie Blauner lives in Seattle, Washington, and is the author of six books of poetry, two novels, and a novella. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in publications such as the New Republic, the Nation, the Georgia Review, the New Orleans Review, Poetry, and American Poetry Review. Visit her web site at www.laurieblauner.com.
Justin Boening is the author of Self-Portrait as Missing Person, which was selected by Dara Wier for a Poetry Society of America’s National Chapbook Fellowship. He’s currently finishing his first full-length collection with support from Bucknell University, where he’s the Roth Resident at the Stadler Center for Poetry.
Bruce Bond is the author of eight published books of poetry, most recently The Visible (lsu, 2012). His tetralogy, Choir of the Wells, and his tenth book, The Other Sky (in collaboration with the painter Aron Wiesenfled, intro by Stephen Dunn), are forthcoming from Etruscan Press. [End Page 183]
Thomas Cain works in northern Colorado.
Winner of grants from the Maryland Arts Council and the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Nancy Naomi Carlson is the author of Stone Lyre: Poems of René Char. She is an associate editor for Tupelo Press and teaches at the Bethesda Writer’s Center.
This issue’s cover photograph is by Mike Chen, a freelance photographer who grew up and resides in Los Angeles, California. He was that kid who hated to have his photo taken but then ended up falling in love with photography as an adult. He loves to travel to capture various landscapes that this planet has to offer. You can find his work at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikechen-metalman.
Gary Clark was born (1963) and raised in New Haven County, Connecticut. He received a ba in English/Drama from Dartmouth College in 1986 and a mfa in poetry from the University of Oregon in 1992. Since 1993 he has worked at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont, where he lives with his wife and three children.
Analucia DaSilva lives and writes in California’s Bay Area.
Kristina Marie Darling is the author of eight books of poetry, which include Palimpsest (Patasola Press, 2012) and the forthcoming Petrarchan (Blazevox Books, 2013). Her awards include a Yaddo residency and an artist grant from the Kittredge Fund. She is currently working toward a PhD in Poetics at suny-Buffalo.
Suzanne Dracius, author and playwright from Martinique, won the Prize of the Society of French Poets for the body of her work, as well as the Prix Fetkann for her poetry collection. Dracius’s work emphasizes Martinique’s complex cultural history and its shaping by Asian, European, and African cultures.
C. Violet Eaton studied at the University of Buffalo’s Poetics Program and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is the editor of Bestoned, a journal of new metaphysical verse. As Dowser, he occasionally dispatches small editions of “hill drone” recordings from secret locations in Arkansas, the same state in which he teaches poetry and sells used & rare books for a living.
Derek Gromadzki recently received his mfa from the University of Iowa, where he is now a PhD student in comparative literature. His poetry is forthcoming in Drunken...
