Blues for Bill

Editors

119 Editors Kurt Brown is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: Return of the Prodigals (Four Way Books, 1999), More Things in Heaven and Earth (Four Way Books, 2002), and Fables from the Ark (CustomWords, 2004). A fourth collection , Future Ship, is due out from Story Line Press in 2005. The editor of six anthologies of poetry and essays, he teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. Meg Kearney’s book of poetry, An Unkindness of Ravens, was published by BOA Editions in 2001. Her collections of poems for teens, The Secret of Me, will be published in 2005. She has been featured on Poetry Daily, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Agni, Ploughshares, and Poetry, and the anthologies Where Icarus Falls, Urban Nature, The Poets’ Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales, Shade, and The Book of Irish American Poetry from the 18th Century to the Present. Recipient of an Artist’s Fellowship in 2001 from the New York Foundation for the Arts, she received a New York Times Fellowship and the Alice M. Sellers Academy of American Poets Award in 1998. She has taught poetry at The New School University , and was associate director of the National Book Foundation for more than 10 years. She is now director of the Solstice Creative Writing Programs of Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Mass. Donna Reis’s nonfiction book, Seeking Ghosts in the Warwick Valley, was published by Schiffer Publishing Limited in 2003. She received her M.A. in creative writing from the City College, City University of New York, where she studied with William Matthews. Her poetry, articles, essays, and criticisms have appeared in numerous magazines, including The American Book Review, A Gathering of the Tribes, Cumberland Poetry Review, Hudson Valley Magazine, and Hanging Loose. She received the Meyer Cohn Essay Award in Literature in 2000 and the James Ruoff Memorial Essay Award in 2002 from The City College of New York. Estha Weiner’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the anthologies Never Before: Poems About First Experiences (Four Way Books, 2005), The Poets’ Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (Story Line Press, 2003), and Summer Shade: A Collection of Modern Poetry (Wyndham Hall Press, 2001), and in such publications as The New Republic, Barrow Street, Rattapallax, Brilliant Corners , and Lit. A finalist for “Discovery”/ The Nation Prize, she is founder and director of the Writers’ Night Series for Sarah Lawrence College and a Speaker on Shakespeare for the New York Council for the Humanities. WNET, Public Television, has recently made her a consultant. ...