Jean Valentine: This-World Company

Contributors

Contributors Kazim Ali is the author of three volumes of poetry, The Far Mosque, The Fortieth Day, and the mixed-genre Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities; two novels, Quinn’s Passage and The Disappearance of Seth; and two collections of essays, Orange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art and the Architecture of Silence and Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice. He is the translator of Water’s Footfall by Iranian poet Sohrab Sepehri. Founding Editor of Nightboat Books (www.nightboat.org), he teaches in the Creative Writing and Comparative Literature programs at Oberlin College, and in 2009 he received an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. Maggie Anderson is the author of four books of poems, including Windfall (New and Selected Poems), A Space Filled with Moving, and Cold Comfort, and editor of four anthologies of poetry. She is Professor Emerita at Kent State University, where she was the founder and director of the Wick Poetry Center and editor of the Wick Poetry Series of the Kent State University Press from 1992 to 2010. Catherine Barnett’s ‹rst book, Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, was published in 2004 by Alice James Books; her second collection is forthcoming from Graywolf Press. She is the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, and a Pushcart. She teaches at Barnard, the New School, and NYU and also works as an independent editor. Dorothy Barresi is the author of four books of poetry: American Fanatics (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010); Rouge Pulp; The Post-Rapture Diner, winner of an American Book Award; and All of the Above, winner of the Barnard College New Women Poets Award. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Cali239 fornia State University, Northridge. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband Phil Matero and sons Andrew and Dante. Celia Bland is the author of the award-winning poetry collection, Soft Box. Her essays have recently appeared in American Poetry Review , Boston Review, Writing on the Edge, and Fifth Wednesday. She teaches at Bard College. Jonathan Blunk is writing the authorized biography of James Wright. He is coeditor of Wright’s selected letters, A Wild Perfection (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005). His poems, essays, and interviews have appeared in The Nation, American Poetry Review, Georgia Review, and other journals. Philip Booth was the author of more than eight books of poetry including Available Light, Before Sleep, Relations, Selves, and Pairs. He received numerous grants and awards, including those from the Academy of American Poets, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Lee Briccetti’s ‹rst book of poems, Day Mark, was published in 2005 by Four Way Books. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Award for Poetry and has been a Poetry Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She is the longtime executive director of Poets House in New York City, a poetry library and meeting place for poets and readers. Julie Carr is the author of four books of poetry: Mead: An Epithalamion , Equivocal, 100 Notes on Violence, and Sarah: Of Fragments and Lines. Surface Tension: Ruptural Time and the Poetics of Desire in Late Victorian Poetry is forthcoming from Dalkey Archive. She teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and is the copublisher , with Tim Roberts, of Counterpath Press. Suzanne Cleary’s poetry books are Trick Pear and Keeping Time, both published by Carnegie Mellon. Recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, her poems appear in anthologies including Best American Poetry and Poetry 180, and journals including Atlantic Monthly and Poetry London. Her book reviews appear in Bloomsbury Review. 240 Martha Collins is the author of White Papers (Pittsburgh, 2012) and the book-length poem Blue Front (Graywolf, 2006), as well as four earlier collections of poems and two collections of cotranslated Vietnamese poetry. She served as Distinguished Visiting Writer at Cornell University in spring 2010, and is currently editor-at-large for FIELD magazine. Mark Doty’s eight books of poems include Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, which won the National Book Award in 2008. A Professor and Writer in Residence at Rutgers, he is also the author of four books of non‹ction prose and a handbook for writers, The Art of Description. Kathleen Fagley...