Contributors to This Issue
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Charles Bernstein's books include Blind Witness: Three American Operas (Factory School), new in 2008; Girly Man (University of Chicago Press), now in paperback; and Shadowtime (Green Integer), libretto for an opera on Benjamin. He is Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. More info: epc.buffalo.edu. The poems in this issue were first published in Modernist Archaist: Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam (Whale and Star Press) and are used by the permission of the translators.
David Epstein, Ph.D., is a poet who lives in Connecticut. His poetry has been published in The Lyric, Blue Collar Review, Poetic Hours (U.K.), Poesia, and Poetic Thought. He has written reviews for Shofar, as well as short fiction and essays for other venues.
Thomas Fink's fifth book of poetry, Clarity and Other Poems, was published by Marsh Hawk Press in Spring, 2008. His chapbook, Generic Whistle-Stop (Portable Press at Yo Yo Labs) appeared in 2009. A Different Sense of Power (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001) is his most recent book of criticism, and in 2007, he and Joseph Lease co-edited "Burning Interiors": David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics. His work is included in The Best American Poetry 2007 (Scribner's). Fink's paintings hang in various collections.
Norman Finkelstein is the author of four books of criticism and five books of poetry, including, most recently, Passing Over (Marsh Hawk Press, 2007). On Mt. Vision: Forms of the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry is forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press. He is a Professor of English at Xavier University.
Benjamin Friedlander is the author most recently of The Missing Occasion of Saying Yes (Subpress, 2007) and Simulcast: Four Experiments in Criticism (University of Alabama Press, 2004). He teaches at the University of Maine.
Ethan Goffman is senior editor for ProQuest's Discovery Guide series and editorial associate for Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy. He is the [End Page vii] author of Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Recent Literature (2000), co-editor (with Dan Morris) of The New York Public Intellectuals and Beyond (2009), and co-editor (with John Rodden) of Irving Howe: Politics and the Novel (forthcoming). His journalism and scholarly articles have appeared in Grist, E: The Environmental Magazine, Contemporary Literature, Melus, Neue Germanistik, Dissent, and elsewhere. He is designer of the award-winning board game AmuseAmaze.
Alan Golding is Professor of English at the University of Louisville, where he teaches American literature and twentieth-century poetry and poetics. He is the author of From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry (University of Wisconsin Press, 1995), which won a CHOICE Best Academic Book Award, and of numerous essays on modernist and contemporary poetry. He has two book projects in progress: Written Into the Future: New American Poetries from The Dial to the Digital, under contract with the University of Alabama Press, and "Isn't the Avant-Garde Always Pedagogical," a book on experimental poetics and pedagogy. He serves on the editorial boards of Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, and the University of Alabama Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series, and co-edits the Iowa Series on Contemporary North American Poetry with Lynn Keller and Dee Morris.
Arielle Greenberg is the author of My Kafka Century (Action Books, 2005), Given (Verse, 2002) and the chapbook Farther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials (New Michigan, 2003). She is co-editor of two anthologies: with Rachel Zucker, Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections (Iowa, 2008); and with Lara Glenum, Gurlesque (Saturnalia, 2010). She is the founder-moderator of the poet-moms listserv and is an Assistant Professor at Columbia College Chicago.
Jamey Hecht is the author of three books: Plato's Symposium: Eros and the Human Predicament (Twayne, 1999); a translation, Sophocles' Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature, 2004); and a collection of poems, Limousine, Midnight Blue: Fifty Frames from the Zapruder Film (Red Hen Press, 2009). His poetry and prose have been published in a variety of scholarly journals and literary magazines including Tikkun; American Book Review; Shofar; Isotope; Caesura; Afterwords; Los Angeles Review; Black...
