A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry

Contributors

400 Contributors Liz Ahl is the author of Luck (Pecan Grove Press, 2010) and A Thirst That’s Partly Mine (Slapering Hol Press, 2008). She has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Kimmel Nelson Harding Center for the Arts, and Jentel. She lives in New Hampshire. Dan Albergotti is the author of The Boatloads (BOA Editions, 2008). His poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Pushcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses, and elsewhere. He teaches at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. Kazim Ali’s books include three volumes of poetry, The Far Mosque, The Fortieth Day and Bright Felon, two novels, Quinn’s Passage and The Disappearance of Seth, and most recently,OrangeAlert:EssaysonPoetry,ArtandtheArchitectureof Silence.Anewbookof essays, Fasting for Ramadan, was published in 2011. Maureen Alsop is the author of Apparition Wren, The Diction of Moths, and several chapbooks, most recently Luminal Equation in the collection Narwhal, and the dream and the dream you spoke. She is the winner of Harpur Palate’s Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry and The Bitter Oleander’s Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award. Ivy Alvarez is the author of Mortal (Red Morning Press, 2006). A recipient of fellowships from MacDowell (USA), Hawthornden Castle (UK) and Fundación Valparaiso (Spain), her poetry appears in journals and anthologies in many countries and online. She was poet-in-residence at the Museum of Welsh Life, Cardiff, during 2010. FranciscoAragónistheauthorof PuertadelSolandGlowof OurSweat,aswellaseditor of The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. His poems have appeared in various anthologies andjournals.HedirectsLetrasLatinas—theliteraryprogramof theInstituteforLatino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Cynthia Arrieu-King is an assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton College. Her book People are Tiny in Paintings of China is available from Octopus Books. Her Contributors 401 reviewsandpoemshaveappearedinBostonReview,Jacket,PrairieSchooner,BlackWarrior Review, New Orleans Review and other journals. She lives on Absecon Island and in Philadelphia. Rane Arroyo (1954–2010) was a poet, playwright, and fiction writer whose ten collections of poetry included The Buried Sea: New & Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press, 2008) and The Sky’s Weight (Turning Point Press, 2009). At the time of his death in 2010, he was a Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Toledo. Elizabeth Austen is the author of two poetry chapbooks, The Girl Who Goes Alone (FloatingBridgePress,2010)andWhereCurrentsMeet,partof theToadlilyPressquartet Sightline.Herfull-lengthpoetrycollection,EveryDressaDecision,waspublishedbyBlue Begonia Press in 2011. Corrina Bain is a writer-performer living in Brooklyn. She was showcased on Final StageattheNationalPoetrySlamin2004.ShehasperformedwithsuchlegendsasJim CarrollandPatriciaSmith.HerworkappearsintheNovember3rdClub,decomPliterary magazine, killauthor and others. Sally Ball istheauthorof AnnusMirabilis(BarrowStreet,2005).Sheisalsotheassociate director of Four Way Books and an assistant professor of English at Arizona State University. Annus Mirabilis centers on the lives and theories of Newton and Leibniz, rival inventors of calculus. Tony Barnstone is The Albert Upton Professor of English Language and Literature at Whittier College and the author of twelve books. His third book of poems, The Golem of Los Angeles (Red Hen Press), won the Benjamin Saltman Award in Poetry, and his fourth,Tongueof War:FromPearlHarbortoNagasaki(BKMKPress),wontheJohnCiardi Prize in Poetry. Curtis Bauer’s poems and translations have been published widely. A finalist for numerous poetry and translation prizes, he won the John Ciardi Poetry Prize for his collection, Fence Line (BkMk, 2004). He teaches Creative Writing and Translation at Texas Tech University and is the publisher of Q Ave Press Chapbooks. Shaindel Beers’ first poetry collection, A Brief History of Time, was published by Salt Publishingin2009.SheisthePoetryEditorof ContraryandlivesinPendleton,Oregon. Carol Berg has poems forthcoming or in Artifice, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Pebble Lake Review, Rhino, qarrtsiluni, Melusine, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from Stonecoast andanMAinEnglishLiterature.ShelivesinMassachusettswithherhusbandandson. Tara Betts is the author of Arc & Hue (Aquarius Press-Willow Books, 2009). She is a Cave Canem fellow, and she teaches creative writing at Rutgers University. Her work appears in several journals and anthologies, including Gathering Ground, Black Nature Poetry, and Bum Rush the Page. 402 A Face to Meet the Faces TamikoBeyeristheauthorofboughbreaks(MeritagePress).Herpoemshaveappeared in Sonora Review, h_ngm_m, Copper Nickel Review, and elsewhere. She leads community writing workshops and is the poetry editor of Drunken Boat. She is a founding memberof thequeer,multi-racialwritingcollectiveAgent 409,andaKundimanfellow. Joelle Biele is the author of White Summer and the editor of Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence. A Fulbright scholar in Germany and Poland, she...