Dressing in the Dark
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PAUL DEAN is a freelance critic living in Oxford, UK, and a Founding Fellow of the English Association. He is a frequent contributor to The New Criterion.
DENIS DONOGHUE is Emeritus University Professor of English and American Letters at New York University. His most recent book is Metaphor (Harvard, 2014), and he is currently writing a book on the question of taste.
ANDREW FORGE (1923–2002) was an English painter, art critic and academic. His work can be found in public collections including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Yale University, Tate Gallery, and the Arts Council of Great Britain. Among his writings are books on the works of Paul Klee, Robert Rauschenberg, Monet, and Degas, as well as numerous essays. The essays in this issue are taken from Observation: Notation: A Selection of the Critical Writings of Andrew Forge: 1955–2002, edited by David Cast, forthcoming from Criterion Books in 2018.
JOEY FRANTZ's poetry and criticism have appeared in The Adirondack Review, The Hopkins Review, and The New Criterion. He teaches chess for a living in Seattle.
JACK L. B. GOHN, when not practicing law, is the author of a column on law and policy in the Maryland Daily Record, a theater critic for BroadwayWorld.com, and an occasional book reviewer.
JULIANA GRAY's third poetry collection, Honeymoon Palsy, is forthcoming from Measure Press. Poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2016 and journals such as Birmingham Poetry Review and Waccamaw. An Alabama native, she lives in western New York and teaches at Alfred University.
DANIEL GROVES is the author of The Lost Boys (UGA Press, 2010). His poems have appeared in Paris Review, Yale Review, Poetry, and elsewhere.
JEFF HARDIN has authored five collections of poetry, including No Other Kind of World, Restoring the Narrative, and Small Revolution. His poems appear in The Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, Hudson Review, and North American Review. He has received both the X. J. Kennedy Prize and the Donald Justice Poetry Prize.
AARON HENKIN creates and produces original radio programs for WYPR, including Out of the Blocks. His past work includes a weekly cultural program called The Signal, and the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings program Tapestry of the Times. Aaron's stories have aired nationally on NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and internationally on BBC and CBC. [End Page 643]
JEFFERSON HUNTER is The Hopkins Review's film critic and the Helen and Laura Shedd Professor of English and Film Studies, Emeritus, at Smith College. He has recently authored a website, A Word in Your Ear, about unusual English words and phrases (sophia.smith.edu/blog/wordinyourear).
STEPHEN KAMPA has two volumes of poetry—Cracks in the Invisible (Ohio University Press) and Bachelor Pad (Waywiser Press)—and currently teaches at Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL. His third collection, Articulate as Rain, is forthcoming from Waywiser in March 2018.
JOHANNA KELLER is the music critic for The Hopkins Review, and teaches at Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Relations.
RICHARD KENNEY's most recent book is The One-Strand River (Knopf, 2007). He teaches at the University of Washington's marine laboratories in Friday Harbor, and lives with his family on the Olympic Peninsula.
HAILEY LEITHAUSER's debut collection, Swoop (Graywolf, 2013), won the Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award and the Towson Prize for Literature. She has recent or forthcoming work in Agni, The Gettysburg Review, Poetry, and The Yale Review. She lives in Silver Spring, MD, where she occasionally teaches at the Bethesda Writer's Center and the West Chester Poetry Conference.
JAMES MAGRUDER's stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Normal School, New England Review, Subtropics, Bloom, and elsewhere. He is the author of Sugarless, Let Me See It, and the recent Love Slaves of Helen Hadley Hall. He teaches dramaturgy at Swarthmore College.
AMIT MAJMUDAR's next book is a verse translation from Sanskrit of the Bhagavad Gita, with commentaries, entitled Godsong (Knopf, 2018). He is a diagnostic nuclear radiologist, a novelist, and the first Poet Laureate of Ohio.
ANDREW MOTION served as Poet Laureate of the U.K. from 1999 to 2009. He now lives...
