- Contributors
A. Banerjee, a regular contributor, will be publishing more essays here in 2014.
Neal Bowers, a long-time contributor to the Review, is writing poetry again after a decade of silence. He lives in Ames, Iowa.
Brian Boyd, University Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, has written on literature from Homer to now. His books include On the Origin of Stories (2009) and Why Lyrics Last (2012).
Peter Cooley is now senior Mellon professor in the humanities at Tulane University. His ninth book, out this year from Carnegie Mellon Press, is titled Night Bus to the Afterlife.
Brian Culhane, a new contributor, has published poetry in the Hudson Review, and is the author of The King’s Question, winner of the Poetry Foundation’s Emily Dickinson Award.
William Virgil Davis is an award-winning poet and critic. He has published numerous essays and two books on R. S. Thomas.
Martin Greenberg received the Harold Morton Landon Verse Translation Award from the American Academy of Poets.
Emily Grosholz, a contributor of long standing who is also an advisory editor for the Hudson Review, is well known as a poet, critic, translator, and philosopher.
William Harmon, now in his fifth decade as a contributor, lives in Oxford, North Carolina. Having served in the U.S. Navy for some years and later sailed on board the Costa Concordia in 2009, he is drafting a book about that ship’s catastrophe in 2012.
Henry Hart has recently published his fourth poetry book, Familiar Ghosts (Orchises Press). He has also published scholarly books on Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, and James Dickey.
Ben Howard is the author of two books of essays and six collections of poetry. Poems from the sequence “Maturity” in this number will be included in “Firewood and Ashes: New and Selected Poems,” forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in 2014.
George Keithley’s most recent book, Night’s Body, won the 2013 Nautilus Book Award for Poetry. His essay in this issue describes a landscape in his long narrative poem The Donner Party, which has enjoyed over a half century in print.
Peter Makuck’s Long Lens: New and Selected Poems was published in 2010 by boa editions. His third collection of short stories, Allegiance and Betrayal, was released last spring by Syracuse University Press.
David Mason has two books coming out in 2014: “Sea Salt: Poems of a Decade” and “Davey McGravy: Tales for Children and Adult Children.”
Hilary Masters, a man of letters chiefly known for his novels, lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, the mystery writer Kathleen George.
Jeffrey Meyers, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has recently published his fifth book on Orwell. In 2012 he gave the Seymour lectures on biography, sponsored by the National Library of Australia.
Jay Parini, a poet and novelist, teaches at Middlebury College. His essay on poetry and prayer is based on earlier versions delivered as lectures at Baylor University, the University of London, and the University of the South.
W. Brown Patterson is the author of King James vi and i and the Reunion of Christendom (Cambridge University Press). He is completing a book on William Perkins, the Elizabethan Calvinist theologian.
George Poe, a regular contributor who professes French, holds the Class of 1961 Chair of the College at the University of the South.
Jayanta Mahapatra has published over a dozen books of poetry, including his collected poems of 1974–2008.
Earl Rovit, a Korean War veteran, is also a novelist and a critic and has written often for the SR since 1985.
Floyd Skloot’s Selected Poems: 1970–2005 was published in 2008 by Tupelo Press, which will also publish his seventh collection of poems, “Close Reading,” this year.
H. L. Weatherby’s books include a highly regarded study of Spenser published by the University of Toronto Press.
David Yezzi now teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins and continues to edit poetry at the New Criterion. [End Page xvii]