Contributors
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Will Alexander has recent and forthcoming publications in Callaloo, Facture, Hambone, Sulfur, Syllogism, and Barrow Street. He has completed a novel (Diary As Sin and a book of poetry (Solea ofthe Simooms). Alexander lives in Los Angeles.
Dimitri Anastasopoulos is a Presidential Fellow at SUNY-Albany. His fiction has appeared in Willow Springs Pennsylvania English and the Black Warrior Review. His first novel, A Larger Sense of Harvey, is due out from Mammoth Books in 2000.
John Clarke's books include Lots of Doom (1973), Gloucester Translations (1974), The End of This Side (1979), From Feathers to Iron: A Concourse of World Poetics (1987), and In the Analogy (1997). He taught for twenty-nine years at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Marilyn Crispell is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and was for many years a member of the Anthony Braxton Quartet, as well as the Reggie Workman Ensemble. Crispell has also taught improvisation workshops and lectured throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
Brent Hayes Edwards is an assistant professor in the English Department at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. He is currently completing a book called The Practice of Diaspora, which will be published by Harvard University Press. He is an associate editor of Callaloo.
Jeffrey Gray is an associate professor at Seton Hall University, where he teaches contemporary poetry, postcolonial literature, and literary theory, and directs the reading series "Poetry-in-the-Round." His articles have appeared in Contemporary Literature, Novel, and The Explicator, among others, and his poetry has been published in the Atlantic, The American Poetry Review, The Literary Review, and elsewhere. He has an article forthcoming in the MLA volume Personal Turns, and a book, The Poetry of Travel, in progress. He recently returned from a Fulbright in Guatemala (2000).
James C. Hall is the author of Mercy, Mercy Me: African American Culture and the American Sixties (Oxford) and editor of Approaches to Teaching Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (MLA). He is currently Associate Professor of African American Studies and English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Paul Hoover is Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College Chicago, and the author of seven books of poetry, including Totem and Shadow (Talisman House), Viridian (University of Georgia Press), and The Novel: A Poem (New Directions). He is also editor of the anthology Postmodern American Poetry (W.W. Norton) and the literary magazine New American Writing.
Devin Johnston received a PhD from the University of Chicago. His critical work has recently appeared in Contemporary Literature, Modernism/Modernity, and Notre Dame Review, and his poetry has been published in Colorado Review, Facture, New American Writing, Fence, and elsewhere. [End Page 815]
Pierre Joris teaches in the Department of English at SUNY-Albany. He has published over twenty books & chapbooks of poetry, among them, h.j.r. (Earth Wind Press), Winnetou Old (Meow Press), Turbulence (St. Lazaire Press), and Breccia, Selected Poems 1974-1986 (Editions Phi), as well as several anthologies and many volumes of translations, both into English and French. With Jerome Rothenberg he published a two volume anthology of 20th-century avant-garde writings, Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry (University of California Press), the first volume of which received the 1996 Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature. Wesleyan University Press will publish Poasis: Selected Poems 1986-1999 in early 2001.
David C. Kress is completing his PhD in contemporary American literature at Pennsylvania State University and teaches part-time at Roger Williams University. His novel Counting Zero was recently published by Mammoth Books.
Hank Lazer is Professor of English and Assistant Vice President at the University of Alabama, where he coedits the Modern and Contemporary Poetics series for the University of Alabama Press. His published work includes Doublespace: Poems 1971-1989 (Segue, 1992), 3 of 10 (poems, Chax, 1996), and Opposing Poetries (criticism, Northwestern University Press, 1996).
Nathaniel Mackey's forthcoming books are Atet A.D. (volume three of From A Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate), due out from City Lights Books in 2001, and Four for Glenn, a chapbook of poems due to...
