Contributors

contributors 153 CONTRIBUTORS MILA D. AGUILAR, an activist in the underground movement in the Philippines, has been held by the Philippine military since August 1984. She is one of the leading writers and journalists in the Philippines; her numerous publications include Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win (Manila, 1974), The Mass Line and Other Poems (Manila, 1977), and Selected Poems (New York: Kitchen Table Press, 1984). PATRICIA ALDEN teaches English at St. Lawrence University and is currently working on the novels of J. M. Coetzee; she has published essays on Hardy, Gissing, and marxist literary criticism. DANIEL BOURNE, editor of Artful Dodge, spent 1982-83 in Warsaw on a translation fellowship and will return in the autumn of 1985 on a Fulbright scholarship for more work with Polish writers; his own work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Indiana Review, and Kansas Quarterly. PAMELA BRANDT'S work has appeared in Pushcart Prize IX, Story Quarterly, and The Edinburgh Review, "All Alices" originally appeared in somewhat different form in Real Fiction. Pamela is currently writing a full length play. PAUL BUHLE— Director of the Oral History ofthe American Left, Tamiment Library, New York University—continues to curate the traveling Radical Humor Art Show. His Labor's Joke Book (WD Press) is now out. PETER COPEK teaches in the English department at Oregon State University and is the founding director of the OSU Center for the Humanities. RICHARD DANIELS, a poetry editor for m.r., writes poems and short stories, teaches English at Oregon State University, and does political work in Corvallis. JIMMIE DURHAM, a Wolf clan Cherokee, is an activist in the American Indian Movement and was AIM's official representative to the United Nations in the I970"s. He has a B.F.A. from the University of Geneva, Switzerland and is a sculptor, painter, and poet. He has published one book, Columbus Day (West End Press, 1983). JUAN ARMANDO EPPLE teaches in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon. His essays on Latin American Literature have appeared in Cuadernos Americanos, Texto Critico, Ideologies & Literature, and Araucaria, and he co-edited an anthology, Chile: poesía de Ia resistenciay del exilio (1978), that was published simultaneously in Spain, Romania, Yugoslavia, and the Soviet Union. JOAN ESPOSITO teaches philosophy at Queens College, CUNY. DANIEL FOLTZGRAY 's "Easygoing" is part of a book of independent stories that can also be read as a single narrative. Daniel, who studied fiction writing with John Wideman at the University of Pennsylvania, teaches at a community college near Knoxville, Tennessee. MARGARET GIBSON, currently a writer-in-residence at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, has published two books, both with the Louisiana State University Press: Signs (1979) and Long Walks in the Afternoon (1982), the Lamont Selection for that year. BARBARA HARLOW, who taught English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo from 1977 to 1983, will move to the University of Texas at Austin after spending 1985-86 at Cornell's Society for the Humanities. Her published work includes translations of Jacques Derrida's Spurs (University of Chicago Press) and Ghassan Kanafani's Palestine's Children (Heinemann); her forthcoming book, Resistance Literature and Literary Theory, will appear in Methuen's New Accents series. DIANNE WALTA HART teaches Spanish at Oregon State University and is working on a Nicaraguan oral history. EUGENE W. HOLLAND teaches modern French civilization and critical theory at the University of Iowa, and is currently working on an essay on Baudelaire and a book on late 19th-century French culture. MAGGIE JAFFE's most recent poems have appeared in Confrontations , Negative Capability, and West Hills Review. KENT JOHNSON lives in Milwaukee, where he recently helped start a chapter of Artist's Call. He worked in Nicaragua as a literacy teacher during 1980 and as an Adult Education instructor during 1983. The material he presents here is part of a book anthology of the Talleres de Poesía to be published this fall by West End Press. KATHLEEN B. JONES is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at San Diego State University. Currently, she is editing the International Handbook ofResearch on Pornography for Greenwood Press and working on a book on...