CONTRIBUTORS

1 9 4 Y C O N T R I B U T O R S RANDY BLASING is author of Sweet Crude (Persea) and many other books of poems, and the co-translator of Letters to TarantaBabu (Copper Beech), his ninth book of the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet’s poetry. He lives outside of Providence, Rhode Island. STEPHEN BURT reviews widely, and is author , among other collections, of Belmont: Poems (Greywolf), and of The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them (Belknap/Harvard University Press). He is professor of English at Harvard University. JOHN CROWLEY teaches fiction writing and screenwriting at Yale. He was born in the appropriately liminal town of Presque Isle, Maine, the son of an Army Air Corps doctor . He began publishing novels in 1975; they include Little, Big; the Ægypt cycle of magical history (The Solitudes, Love & Sleep, Dæmonomania, Endless Things); The Translator (winner of the Premio Flaiano, Italy); Lord Byron’s Novel: The Evening Land, and Four Freedoms. He has twin daughters and lives in northwest Massachusetts. MARY DONNELLY’s poems have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Hunger Mountain, The Iowa Review, and Indiana Review, among others. She received an MFA in writing from Bennington College and lives in Brooklyn, where she works as a producer for non-profit films and publications, teaches through Gotham Writers Workshop , and helps edit DMQ Review. MOIRA EGAN’s most recent collection of poems, Synaesthesium, won The New Criterion Poetry Prize and will be published this fall. She lives in Rome. DEWEY FAULKNER has taught at Yale and at the University of San Antonio. He has also worked for many years in newspaper, television , and radio as a music critic. MARTA FIGLEROWICZ is author of Flat Protagonists : A Theory of Novel Character (Oxford) and Spaces of Feeling: A√ect and Awareness in Modernist Literature (Cornell ). She writes literary and cultural criticism for publications such as n+1, Jacobin, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Post45 (Contemporaries), MAKE Literary Magazine , and Boston Review. She teaches in the department of comparative literature at Yale. BRUCE FLEMING has taught English at the U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, for many years, as well as at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and the National University of Rwanda. His published work includes Bridging the Military-Civilian Divide (Potomac Books). ALASTAIR FOWLER is author of Renaissance Realism: Narrative Images in Literature and Art (Oxford University Press), among many other books. He is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh. ERNEST HILBERT is the author of three collections of poetry, Sixty Sonnets (2009), All of You on the Good Earth (2013), and Caligulan (2015), which won the 2017 Poets’ Prize. He lives in Philadelphia. C O N T R I B U T O R S 1 9 5 R KARL KIRCHWEY’s new book Stumbling Blocks: Roman Poems will be published this fall by Northwestern University Press. He has recently edited an anthology of poems about Rome for the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets Series. His translation of Paul Verlaine’s first book as Poems Under Saturn appeared in 2011 (Princeton University Press), and he is now working on translating poems by Giovanni Giudici (1924–2011) and Giorgio Vigolo (1894– 1983). He is professor of English and creative writing at Boston University. VINCENT KLING is professor in the department of foreign languages and literatures at La Salle University in Philadelphia. He has translated fiction, poetry, and critical writings by many authors. He was awarded the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for the Swiss novel Why the Child Is Cooking in the Polenta , by Aglaja Veteranyi. Currently he at work on a translation for New York Review Books of Heimito von Doderer’s novel Die Strudlhofstiege oder Melzer und die Tiefe der Jahre. MARY MAXWELL’s poems, translations, and essays have appeared most recently in Arion, Literary Imagination, PNReview, and Vanitas. Her fifth collection of poems, Oral Lake, is forthcoming from LongNookBooks . FLEMING MEEKS has recently published poems in The American Poetry Review and The Kenyon Review website. He was an adviser and principal commentator on Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, a documentary that premiered...