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Contributors Betty Adcock. She has published six books of poetry. Her most recent is Slantwise (Louisiana State University Press, 2008). Adcock teaches in the low-residency Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Paul Allen. His most recent collection is Against Healing (Salmon Poetry Ltd., 2008). Allen is a professor of English at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. A. R. Ammons (1926–2001). He wrote more than twenty volumes of poetry, including the posthumously published Bosh & Flapdoodle (Norton, 2005). He was a professor emeritus at Cornell University, where he taught from 1964 until his retirement in 1998. Nathalie F. Anderson. Her most recent book of poetry is Crawlers (Ashland Poetry Press, 2006). She is a professor of English and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Swarthmore College. Philip Appleman. He has published seven volumes of poetry. His most recent is New and Selected Poems, 1956–1996 (University of Arkansas Press, 1996). Appleman is a distinguished professor of English at Indiana University. James Applewhite. He has published eight books of poetry. His most recent is A Diary of Altered Light (Louisiana State University Press, 2006). He is a professor of English at Duke University. David Axelrod. He has published three books of poetry. His most recent is The Cartographer’s Melancholy (Eastern Washington University Press, 2005). His poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Boulevard, Kenyon Review, Quarterly West, and Willow Springs. He is the associate editor of basalt. ❚ 313 Coleman Barks. He has published six books of poetry and is the translator of Essential Rumi (HarperCollins, 1995). Barks is a professor emeritus at the University of Georgia. Gerald W. Barrax. He has published five books of poetry. His most recent is From a Person Sitting in Darkness: New and Selected Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 1998). Barrax is a professor emeritus of English and the poet-in-residence at North Carolina State University. Dorothy Barresi. She has published three books of poetry. Her most recent is Rouge Pulp (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002). Barresi is a professor of English and creative writing at California State University, Northridge. Jeanne Marie Beaumont. Her two books of poetry are Curious Conduct (BOA Editions, 2004) and Placebo Effects (Norton, 1997). She teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the Ninety-second Street Y and in the Stonecoast MFA program. Robert Bense. His most recent book of poetry is Readings in Ordinary Time (Backwaters Press, 2007). Simeon Berry. His poems have appeared in AGNI, American Letters & Commentary, Chelsea, Crazyhorse, Green Mountains Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Iowa Review, Southeast Review, and Verse. Berry is a poetry and fiction reader for Ploughshares. Wendell Berry. He has published sixteen volumes of poetry. His most recent are Window Poems (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007) and Given (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006). Chana Bloch. She has published three books of poetry. Her most recent is Mrs. Dumpty (University of Wisconsin Press, 1998). Bloch is a professor emerita of English at Mills College, where she was the director of the Creative Writing Program. Joe Bolton (1961–1990). He wrote three books of poetry: Breckenridge County Suite (Cummington Press, 1989); Days of Summer Gone (Galileo Press, 314 ❚ Contributors [3.144.16.254] Project MUSE (2024-04-25 01:21 GMT) 1990), published posthumously; and The Last Nostalgia (University of Arkansas Press, 1999), published posthumously, edited by Donald Justice. Jody Bolz. Her collection, A Lesson in Narrative Time, was published by Gihon Books in 2005. Her poems have appeared in American Scholar, Indiana Review, Ploughshares, and Women’s Review of Books. She is an editor at Poet Lore. Cathy Smith Bowers. She has published three books of poetry. Her most recent is A Book of Minutes (Iris Press, 2004). Her poems have appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry, and Southern Review. Neal Bowers. His most recent book of poetry is Out of the South (Louisiana State University Press, 2002). Bowers is a distinguished professor of English at Iowa State University. P. C. Bowman. His chapbook, The Museum of Childhood, was published by the University of South Carolina Press in 2008. His poems have appeared in Kansas Quarterly, Northwest Review, Poetry, and Virginia Quarterly. Catharine Savage Brosman. She has published six books of poetry. Her most recent is Range of Light (Louisiana State University Press, 2007). Brosman is a professor emerita of French at Tulane University. Bill Brown. His recent chapbooks include Tatters (March Street Press, 2007) and Yesterday’s Hay (Pudding House, 2006). His poems have appeared in Borderlands, Louisville Review, North...

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