Contributors
- Contributors
gilbert allen’s most recent collection of poems is Catma. In 2014 he was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. He is the Bennette E. Geer Professor of Literature at Furman University.
bruce bond is the author of nine published books of poetry, most recently Choir of the Wells: A Tetralogy. He has six books forthcoming. Presently he is a Regents Professor of English at the University of North Texas and a poetry editor for American Literary Review.
a. m. brandt is a professor at Savannah College of Art and Design. Her poems have appeared in The Louisiana Review, The Nebraska Review, and Kalliope. She lives in Savannah, Georgia, with her husband and daughter.
john casteen is the author of Free Union and For the Mountain Laurel. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Fence, Shenandoah, and the Best American Poetry. He lives in Earlysville, Virginia, and teaches at Sweet Briar College.
carol ann davis is the author of Atlas Hour and Psalm. Essays and poems are forthcoming or just out in Blackbird and The Georgia Review. She serves on the writing faculty at Fairfield University and lives with her husband and two sons in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
catherine breese davis (1924–2002) published poems in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and this journal between 1950 and 1998. A collection of her poems, accompanied by an interview about her life and essays about her work, edited by Martha Collins, Kevin Prufer, and Martin Rock, will be published in Pleiades Press’s Unsung Masters series this June.
john estes directs the creative writing program at Malone University and is on the faculty of Ashland University’s low-residency MFA program. He is the author of Kingdom Come and two chapbooks: Breakfast with Blake at the Laocoön [End Page v] and Swerve, which won a 2008 National Chapbook Fellowship from the Poetry Society of America.
peter everwine was born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in western Pennsylvania. His most recent collections of poems are From the Meadow: Selected and New Poems and Listening Long and Late. His honors include the Lamont Poetry Prize (now the James Laughlin Award), an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and numerous fellowships. He is a professor emeritus of English at California State University, Fresno, and has been a Fulbright senior lecturer in American poetry at the University of Haifa.
alice friman’s sixth full-length collection is The View from Saturn. Her work has received a Pushcart prize and is included in the Best American Poetry. She lives in Milledgeville, Georgia, where she is poet-in-residence at Georgia College.
andrew furman is a professor of English at Florida Atlantic University and teaches in its MFA program in creative writing. He is the author, most recently, of Bitten: My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida and My Los Angeles in Black and (Almost) White. His work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Oxford American, and Ecotone.
amanda goldblatt is a fiction writer and essayist who lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. Past work has appeared in Fence, American Short Fiction, and Hobart.
peter gordon’s stories have appeared in a wide range of publications, including The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and The Yale Review. His work has received a Pushcart prize, and his story collection is Man Receives a Letter.
anna journey is the author of the poetry books Vulgar Remedies and If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting, which was selected by Thomas Lux for the National Poetry Series. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Southern California.
philip levine (1928–2015) was born in Detroit, Michigan. He wrote numerous books of poetry, including The Simple Truth, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and What Work Is, which won the National Book Award. He was named Poet Laureate of the [End Page vi] United States in 2011. Most recently, he received the 2013 Wallace Stevens Award for proven mastery in the art of poetry from the Academy of American Poets.
larry levis (1946–1996) published five poetry collections during his life, including The Widening Spell of the Leaves and Winter Stars. He also published a book...
