I Have My Own Song For It

Contributors

Contributors FxMaggie Anderson’s fourth collection is Windfall: New and Selected Poems, from the Pitt Poetry Series. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. She teaches creative writing at Kent State University, where she directs the Wick Poetry Program and edits the Wick Poetry Series published by the Kent State University Press. FxRon Antonucci, former editor of Ohio Writer, sits on the board of the Poets and Writers League of Greater Cleveland and is a member of the Poetry Council at Cleveland State University. His poems, reviews, articles, and essays have appeared in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, including the Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Akron Beacon Journal, Pudding Magazine, Penthouse Publications , Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal. He is assistant director at the Hudson Library and Historical Society. FxDavid Baker is the author of eight books, most recently Changeable Thunder (University of Arkansas Press, 2002) and Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry (Arkansas, 2000). Among his awards are fellowships and prizes from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the Society of Midland Authors, and the Poetry Society of America. Baker moved to Ohio in 1984 and currently resides in Granville, where he serves as poetry editor of The Kenyon Review. He teaches at Denison University and in the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College. FxIvars Balkits, from Appalachian Ohio, works as adult program coordinator for the Athens Public Library. A 1999 recipient of an Ohio Arts Council’s Individual Artist Fellowship, he has been published in Sonoma Mandala, Grasslands Review, New York Quarterly, The Prose Poem (x), and in two anthologies: A Measured Response and Smashing Icons. Two poems have been selected for an upcoming anthology, Appalachia Uncovered. Balkits is working on an historical play about coal mining and labor history in the Hocking Valley coalfields of Ohio. FxDorothy Barresi, a former resident of Akron, is the author of All of the Above (Beacon Press, 1991) and The Post-Rapture Diner (University of Pittsburg Press, 1996), which won an American Book Award. Her poems have appeared in The Harvard Review, Parnassus, The Kenyon Review, and Poetry. Her essay-reviews of contemporary poetry appear regularly in The Gettysburg Review. She directs the F 197 creative writing program at California State University—Northridge, where she is a professor of English. FxElinor Benedict, a native of Tennessee and graduate of Duke University, earned an MA in English from Wright State University, Ohio, and an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. Her poetry collection, All That Divides Us, won the 2000 May Swenson Poetry Award (Utah State University Press). She is founding editor of Passages North literary magazine. She lived in Ohio from 1956–77 and from 1981–95, but now divides her time between the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Florida. FxJames Bertolino’s book Making Space For Our Living (Copper Canyon Press, 1975) was reprinted online in 1999 by CAPA: Connecticut College’s Contemporary American Poetry Archive. His  Poems from Snail River (Egress Studio Press) was published in 2000, as was his chapbook Greatest Hits: – (Pudding House Publications). He has poems in recent anthologies from HarperSanFrancisco , Milkweed Editions, University of Utah Press, New Rivers Press, Kodansha International, and Helicon Nine Editions. His magazine publications include Ploughshares, The Montserrat Review, Notre Dame Review, Beloit Poetry Journal and such online publications as Switched-on Gutenberg, Mudlark, Salt River Review, and Clean Sheets. Bertolino was a visiting professor at Willamette University in Oregon for 1998–99 and has since returned to the creative writing faculty at Western Washington University. FxEric Birkholz, a native of Youngstown, works as a professional editor in Washington, D.C. His poems have appeared in Antietam Review, Barrow Street, Coe Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly, and he was recently awarded a fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts. He received his MFA from the University of Arizona and lives with his wife and daughter in Arlington, Virginia . FxTerry Blackhawk graduated from Antioch College in the 1960s. She lives and writes in Detroit, Michigan, where she directs InsideOut, a writers-in-schools program she founded for Detroit youth in 1995. She is the author of Body & Field (Michigan State University Press, 1999) and a chapbook, Trio: Voices from the Myths (Ridgeway Press, 1998). FxRobert Bly is the author of the bestseller Iron John, which launched the...