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166 Contributors robert archambeau’s books include the poetry collection Home and Variations, the study Laureates and Heretics: Six Careers in American Poetry, and the edited collections Word Play Place, and The &NOW Awards. The recipient of grants and awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Swedish Academy, he is professor of English at -BLF'PSFTU$PMMFHF stephen burt is professor of English at Harvard. His books include The Art of the Sonnet, with David Mikics (Harvard UP, 2010); Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (Graywolf, 2009); and Parallel Play (poems) (Graywolf, 2006). mary biddinger is the author of Prairie Fever(Steel Toe Books, 2007), the chapbook Saint Monica (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), and O Holy Insurgency (Black Lawrence Press, 2012). She is the editor of the Akron Series in Poetry, and co-editor of Barn Owl Review. She is an associate QSPGFTTPSPG&OHMJTIBUUIF6OJWFSTJUZPG"LSPO BOEEJSFDUTUIF/&0.'" /PSUIFBTU0IJP.BTUFSPG'JOF"SUTDPOTPSUJVN michael dumanis is the author of My Soviet Union (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), winner of the 2006 Juniper Prize for Poetry, and the co-editor, with poet Cate Marvin, of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, 2006). He teaches at Cleveland State University, and serves as director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Contributors 167 Essays into Contemporary Poetics elisa gabbert is the author of The French Exit (Birds LLC) and, with Kathleen Rooney, That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (Otoliths). Gabbert’s poems and essays have recently appeared in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly , Open Letters Monthly, Pleiades, Sentence, and other journals. She lives in Boston and blogs at http://thefrenchexit.blogspot.com/. john gallaher is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Map of the Folded World and Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (with G. C. Waldrep), as well as the chapbook Guidebook from Blue Hour Press. He’s currently co-editor of The Laurel Review and lives in rural Missouri. arielle greenberg is co-author, with Rachel Zucker, of Home/ Birth:APoemic, and author of MyKafkaCentury, Given, and several chapbooks. She is co-editor of three anthologies, most recently Gurlesque with Lara Glenum. She is the founder-moderator of the poet-moms listserv and is an associate professor at Columbia College Chicago. joy katz is editor-at-large for Pleiades. She is the author of two poetry collections, The Garden Room and Fabulae, and co-editor of the anthology Dark Horses: Poets on Lost Poems. She teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Pittsburgh. Her awards include the Nadya Aisenberg 'FMMPXTIJQBUUIF.BD%PXFMM$PMPOZ david kirby is the author of Talking About Movies With Jesus and other books of poetry. His latest book, Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll (Continuum , 2009), was hailed by the Times Literary Supplement of London as BiIZNOPGQSBJTFUPUIFFNBODJQBUPSZQPXFSPGOPOTFOTFw'PSNPSF information, go to www.davidkirby.com. elizabeth robinson is the author of several books of poetry including the National Poetry Series winner, Pure Descent, and the Fence Modern Poets Prize winner, Apprehend4IFXBTB'PVOEBUJPOGPS Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award winner. Her most recent book is Also Known As (Apogee Press). benjamin paloff is the author of The Politics, a collection of poems, and has translated several works from Eastern and Central European 168 Contributors The Monkey and the Wrench literatures, most recently Marek Bieńczyk’s novel Tworki and Lodgings: Selected Poems of Andrzej Sosnowski. He is a poetry editor at Boston Review and teaches at the University of Michigan. craig santos perez, a native Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guahan (Guam), is the co-founder of Achiote Press and author of two poetry books: from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Tinfish Press, 2008) and from unincorporated territory [saina] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2010). nick sturm JTBTUVEFOUJOUIF/&0.'"/PSUIFBTU0IJP.BTUFS PG'JOF"SUT)FJTBOBTTJTUBOUFEJUPSPGUIF"LSPO4FSJFTJO1PFUSZ  poetry editor of Rubbertop Review and associate editor of the Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics. His reviews and interviews are forthcoming in Barn Owl Review, The Laurel Review, and Whiskey Island. cole swensen is the author of thirteen volumes of poetry and sixteen book-length translations. A PhD in literature from U.C. Santa Cruz and B(VHHFOIFJN'FMMPX TIFTUIFGPVOEFSBOEFEJUPSPG-B1SFTTF Books and is on...

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