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  • Notes on Contributors

DAVID BARBER’s forthcoming collection is Secret History. He is poetry editor at The Atlantic and teaches in the Harvard Writing Program.

PAUL BONE is the author of Nostalgia for Sacrifice. He has published poems in The Sycamore Review, The Birmingham Poetry Review, Think, Cherry Tree, The Southern Poetry Review, Peacock Journal, and others. He is coeditor of Measure: A Review of Formal Poetry and Measure Press.

BILL COYLE’s collection of poetry, The God of This World to His Prophet, won the New Criterion Poetry Prize and was published in 2006. A collection of his translations of the Swedish poet Håkan Sandell, Dog Star Notations: Selected Poems 1999–2016, appeared in 2016.

DICK DAVIS is a poet and translator. He has published numerous volumes of original poetry and of verse translations from medieval Persian, most recently, Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz (2012).

CHARLES DOERSCH is a digital nomad living currently in a 750-year-old glass factory in Umbria.

PIOTR FLORCZYK’s most recent books are East & West, a volume of poems, and two volumes of translations, My People & Other Poems by Wojciech Bonowicz, and Building the Barricade by Anna Świrszczyńska, which won the 2017 Found in Translation Award and the 2017 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.

STEPHEN GIBSON is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently Self-Portrait in a Door-Length Mirror (2017 Miller Williams Prize winner, selected by Billy Collins, University of Arkansas Press), The Garden of Earthly Delights Book of Ghazals (Texas Review Press), and Rorschach Art Too (2014 Donald Justice Prize, StoryLine Press).

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.

ROB GRIFFITH’s latest book is The Devil in the Milk (Kelsay Books, 2017), and his previous book, The Moon from Every Window (David Robert Books, 2011), was nominated for the 2013 Poets’ Prize. His first book, A Matinee in Plato’s Cave, was the winner of the 2009 Best Book of Indiana Award. He is the editor of the journal Measure, Director of the University of Evansville Press, and chair of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Evansville, Indiana. [End Page 157]

RACHEL HADAS is the author of over a dozen books of poetry, essays, and translations. Her most recent poetry collection is Questions in the Vestibule (2016). Hadas is Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. Her translation of Iphigenia Among the Taurians is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press in April 2018.

RICHARD HOLMES is the author of ten biographies and collections of biographical essays, including Footsteps, Shelley, Coleridge, Falling Upwards, and The Age of Wonder, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2009. He lives in London and occasionally flies in hot-air balloons. His most recent book is This Long Pursuit.

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).

ADAM KIRSCH is the author of three books of poetry, including Invasions and Emblems of the Passing World. His most recent book is The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Century.

THEODORE LEINWAND recently published The Great William: Writers Reading Shakespeare, a series of case studies of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Virginia Woolf, Charles Olson, John Berryman, Allen Ginsberg, and Ted Hughes wrestling with Shakespeare as they were reading his work. His last essay in The Hopkins Review—“Shakespeare in Praise of Mediocrity”—appeared in 2014.

DARA MANDLE earned her BA in English from Yale, where she was awarded the Clapp Poetry Prize, and her MFA in poetry from Columbia. Her poems have appeared in Brooklyn Review and Painted Bride Quarterly, among other journals. Her collaborative chapbook with artist Brece Honeycutt, Tobacco Hour, was published by Norte Maar in 2015.

SEAN PADRAIC McCARTHY’s stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, South Dakota Review, The...

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