NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

WILL ALEXANDER has a new book of poems, Exobiology as Goddess, forthcoming from Manifest Press.

RAE ARMANTROUT is currently writer-in-residence at the California College of Arts and Crafts. Her most recent book is The Pretext (Green Integer). In summer of 2001, Wesleyan will publish Veil: New and Selected Poems.

JOHN ASHBERY’s most recent collection of poems is Your Name Here (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). He teaches at Bard College.

MARTINE BELLEN is the author of Places People Dare Not Enter (Potes & Poets Press) and Tales of Murasaki (Sun & Moon Press). Her new collection, The Vulnerability of Order, will be published this spring by Copper Canyon Press.

CHARLES BERNSTEIN’s “Reading Red” was written in response to “New Mexico–New York,” a series of twenty-five paintings by Richard Tuttle, first shown at the Sperone Westwater Gallery in 1998. The collaboration was published in Germany by Walther König (Cologne) in a book designed by Tuttle. Bernstein’s most recent books are Republics of Reality: 1975–1995 (Sun & Moon Press) and My Way: Speeches and Poems (University of Chicago Press).

MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE’s recent books are Endocrinology and Four Year Old Girl, both from Kelsey Street Press. Nest is forthcoming.

LAYNIE BROWNE is co-curator of the Subtext Reading Series in Seattle. Her recent books include Rebecca Letters (Kelsey Street Press), The Agency of Wind (Avec), Clepsydra (Instress) and Gravity’s Mirror (Primitive Editions).

NORMA COLE’s latest poetry publications are The Vulgar Tongue, Desire & Its Double and Spinoza in Her Youth. Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France, edited and translated by the author will appear in the fall of 2000 from Burning Deck.

PETER COLE’s newest book of poems is Hymns & Qualms. His translations from the medieval Hebrew, Selected Poems of Ibn Gabirol, are forthcoming from Princeton University Press.

Among CLARK COOLIDGE’s most recent books are Bomb (with Keith Waldrop; Granary Books), On the Nameways, Vol. One (The Figures) and Now It’s Jazz: Writings on Kerouac and the Sounds (Living Batch Press).

BRENDA COULTAS’s work has appeared in Epoch and in an anthology of new American poets.

ROBERT CREELEY has two CDs forthcoming: “Have We Told You All You Thought to Know?” with Steve Swallow, Chris Massey, David Torn and David CasT in a live concert performance (Cuneiform Records) and “Robert Creeley,” a reading of recent uncollected poems (Jagjaguwar Records). The Before Columbus Foundation gave him an American Book Award 2000 this June for “Lifetime Achievement.”

RACHEL BLAU DuPLESSIS’s collection, Drafts 1–38: Toll, will be published by Wesleyan University Press in 2001. She is working on essays on gender and poetics, and on the next fold of Drafts.

MICHAEL EASTMAN’s work has appeared on the cover of Time as well as in Life, American Photographer and View Camera and can be found in the collections of the International Center for Photography, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Chicago Art Institute and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He lives in St. Louis.

ELAINE EQUI is the author of many books, including Surface Tension, Decoy and Voice-Over (all published by Coffee House Press). She teaches at City College and the New School University in New York.

THALIA FIELD’s first collection, Point and Line, was published by New Directions. “Land at Church City” is from Story Material.

The author of several books of poetry and poems in translation, FORREST GANDER’S most recent titles include Science & Steepleflower (New Directions) and No Shelter: The Selected Poems of Pura López Colomé, forthcoming from Graywolf Press.

PETER GIZZI’s most recent books are Add This to the House (Equipage) and Artificial Heart (Burning Deck Books).

RENEE GLADMAN is the author of Arlem (Idiom Press) and Not Right Now (Second Story Books). Juice, a collection of prose, is forthcoming from Kelsey Street Press later this year. “The Interrogation” is Part 1 of a three-part series.

JORIE GRAHAM is the author of seven volumes of poetry, most recently Swarm (Ecco/HarperCollins). The poems in this issue are from a new collection, All Things, due out next year. She currently teaches at Harvard.

BARBARA GUEST’s recent books include If So, Tell Me (Reality Street Editions), Rocks on a Platter: Notes on Literature (Wesleyan University Press), The Confetti Trees (Sun & Moon Press) and Symbiosis (with artist Laurie Reid; Kelsey Street Editions). In 1999 she was awarded the Robert Frost Medal.

CAMILLE GUTHRIE’s first book of poetry, The Master Thief, will be published this fall by Subpress. She teaches at Friends Seminary in New York.

LYN HEJINIAN’s most recent works are Happily (Post-Apollo Press) and The Beginner (Spectacular Books). A collection of essays entitled The Language of Inquiry is due shortly from the University of California Press. She is co-director, with Travis Ortiz, of Atelos, a literary project commissioning and publishing cross-genre work by poets.

Since 1989, ANSELM HOLLO has been teaching at the Jack Kerouac School of Poetics, the Writing and Poetics Department of Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. A book of prose writings, Caws and Causeries: Around Poetry and Poets, has just been published by La Alameda/University of New Mexico Press, which will also bring out his new book of poems, Rue Wilson Monday, this year.

PAUL HOOVER’s seven books of poetry include Totem and Shadow: New & Selected Poems, Viridian and The Novel: A Poem. He is editor of Postmodern American Poetry (W. W. Norton) and the literary magazine New American Writing.

FANNY HOWE’s most recent volume of poems was Selected Poems (University of California Press). A novel, Indivisible, will be published by Semiotexte/MIT Press later this year.

SUSAN HOWE’s most recent book of poems is Fierce-Arrow, published by New Directions. She is currently at work on a new manuscript.

CATHERINE IMBRIGLIO’s poetry and criticism have appeared in New American Writing, American Letters & Commentary, Caliban, Contemporary Literature and Epoch.

VINCENT KATZ is the author of, among other works, Understand Objects, a book of poems, Life Is Paradise: The Portraits of Francesco Clemente and Charm, translations from Latin of the Roman love poet Sextus Propertius.

ROBERT KELLY’s most recent books are The Garden of Distances (with Brigitte Mahlknecht), Runes and The Time of Voice. The poem in this issue marks the beginning of a long poem, Opening the Seals, and is indebted to Patrick C. Ryan’s reconstructions of the monosyllables of what he calls Proto-Language—human speech a hundred thousand years before the present.

MYUNG MI KIM’s books of poetry are Under Flag (Kelsey Street Press), The Bounty (Chax) and DURA (Sun & Moon Press). “Serge Document” is from her new book, Commons.

ANN LAUTERBACH’s If in Time: Selected Poems 1975–2000 will be published by Penguin in April 2001. She teaches at Bard College, where she also directs Poetry in the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.

TAN LIN is the author of two books of poems, Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe (Sun & Moon Press) and Box (forthcoming from Atelos). He has taught English, creative writing and art history at the University of Virginia, Cal Arts and, currently, New Jersey City University. “Ambient Stylistics” is from a longer collage novel/poem.

JACKSON MAC LOW’s book 20 Forties was published by Zasterle (Canary Islands). Earlier this year, a large concert of his works was performed in Dettenhausen, Germany, and he read at the Bjørnson Festival in Norway. He won the 1999 Tanning Prize from the Academy of American Poets.

NATHANIEL MACKEY’s newest book of poetry is Whatsaid Serif (City Lights Books). Forthcoming are Atet A.D. (volume three of his ongoing fiction From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate), due out in 2001 from City Lights, and Four for Glenn, a chapbook of poems due to appear from Arcturus Editions. Callaloo recently published a special issue focusing on his work.

MARK McMORRIS is the author of The Black Reeds (University of Georgia Press) and Moth-Wings (Burning Deck). He teaches at Georgetown University.

MALINDA MARKHAM teaches at Daito Bunka University in Tokyo. Earlier work of hers appeared in Conjunctions:33.

CAROL MOLDAW’s most recent book is Chalkmarks on Stone (La Alameda Press). A bilingual edition of her poems Pencereden/Through the Window was published in 1998 in Istanbul. She lives and teaches in Pojoaque, New Mexico.

HONOR MOORE’s new collection, Darling, will be published next year by Grove/Atlantic. Her other books include The White Blackbird, a life of her grandmother, the painter Margaret Sargent, and a collection of poems, Memoir (Chicory Blue Press).

LAURA MORIARTY’s recent books are Nude Memoir (Krupskaya), The Case (O Books), L’Archiviste (Zasterle Press), Symmetry (Avec Books), Spicer’s City (Poetry New York) and the short novel Cunning (Spuyten Duyvil). Also, a reprint of Duse is just out from Paradigm Press. She is assistant director of Small Press Distribution in Berkeley, California.

ANDREW MOSSIN’s Drafts for Shelley will be published later this year by Beautiful Swimmer Press. “The Forest” is the concluding section of The Epochal Body, a book-length poem.

MELANIE NEILSON’s next collection of poems is forthcoming in 2001. Excerpts from another project, The Moth Detective, will begin appearing online in winter 2000. She is Executive Producer of Programming at MaMaMedia, a new media company for children.

CHARLES NORTH is the author, most recently, of New and Selected Poems (Sun & Moon Press) and No Other Way: Selected Prose (Hanging Loose). His The Nearness of the Way You Look Tonight will be published by Adventures in Poetry this fall.

ALICE NOTLEY’s latest book is Mysteries of Small Houses (Penguin), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

JENA OSMAN’s The Characters was published by Beacon Press. She co-edits the magazine Chain with Juliana Spahr and teaches in the graduate writing program at Temple University in Philadelphia.

MICHAEL PALMER’s most recent book of poetry is The Promises of Glass (New Directions). A prose work, The Danish Notebook, appeared from Avec Books last fall. A book of selected essays and talks, Form’s Mind, is in preparation.

BIN RAMKE is editor of the Contemporary Poetry Series for the University of Georgia Press and the Denver Quarterly. His first book, The Difference Between Night and Day, won the Yale Younger Poets Award. His most recent book of poems is Wake (University of Iowa Press).

DONALD REVELL is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently There Are Three and Beautiful Shirt, both from Wesleyan. He is a professor of English at the University of Utah.

TESSA RUMSEY is the author of Assembling the Shepherd (University of Georgia Press).

JEROME SALA’s latest book is Raw Deal: New and Selected Poems (Jensen/Daniels).

PETER SACKS’s newest collection is O Wheel (University of Georgia Press).

LESLIE SCALAPINO’s recent books include New Time and The Public World/Syntactically Impermanence (both Wesleyan University Press) and E-hu (Atelos Press).

ANDREW SCHELLING teaches Sanskrit, poetry and wilderness writing at Naropa University. His recent books include The Cane Groves of Narmada River: Erotic Poems from Old India (City Lights Press) and The Road to Ocosingo (Smokeproof Press). Forthcoming from Talisman House is Tea Shack Interiors: New & Selected Poetry.

LEONARD SCHWARTZ’s latest books are Words Before the Articulate: New and Selected Poems (Talisman House) and A Flicker at the Edge of Things: Essays on Poetics (Spuyten Duyvil).

DAVID SHAPIRO’s books include Lateness, House (Blown Apart), To An Idea and After A Lost Original, as well books on John Ashbery, Jim Dine, Jasper Johns and Mondrian.

BRENDA SHAUGHNESSEY’s first book of poetry, Interior with Sudden Joy, was published in 1999 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. She is currently a Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute in Boston.

REGINALD SHEPHERD’s third book, Wrong, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, which also published his previous two books, Some Are Drowning (1993 AWP Award) and Angel, Interrupted. The poems in this issue are from the manuscript of his work-in-progress, Otherhood. He teaches at Cornell University.

The title poem of RON SILLIMAN’s most recent book, (R), appeared in Conjunctions:21. “Fubar Clus” is from VOG, a section of his “longpoem,” The Alphabet. A recent recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Silliman lives in Pennsylvania.

The Fly-Truffler, GUSTAF SOBIN’s latest novel, was published by W. W. Norton. His book of essays, Luminous Debris (Reflecting on Vestige in Provence and Languedoc), also appeared this year from the University of California Press. He lives in Provence.

JULIANA SPAHR is the author of Response (Sun & Moon Press), Everybody’s Autonomy (forthcoming from University of Alabama Press) and the tentatively titled Fuck You—Aloha—I Love You (forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press). She lives in Honolulu.

COLE SWENSEN is a poet who also translates contemporary French poetry, prose and art criticism. Her most recent books are Noon (Sun & Moon Press) and Try (Iowa University Press).

ARTHUR SZE’s latest book, The Redshifting Web, was published by Copper Canyon Press. He is the recipient of a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award. A new collection, The Silk Dragon: Translations of Chinese Poetry, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon next year.

JOHN TAGGART’s most recent book is When the Saints (Talisman).

ANNE TARDOS is the author of Cat Licked the Garlic (Tsunami), Mayg-shem Fish (Potes & Poets), Uxudo (Tuumba Press/O Books) and Among Men (forthcoming).

NATHANIEL TARN has three forthcoming books: The Architextures, from Chax Press; Three Letters from the City: The St. Petersburg Poems 1968–98, from Weaselsleeves Press, Santa Fe, and Borey Art Center, St. Petersburg; and a large Selected Poems: 1950–2000, from Wesleyan University Press.

JAMES TATE is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Shroud of the Gnome and Worshipful Company of Fletchers, both published by Ecco Press, and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press), which won the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award. Tate’s newest book of poems, Memoir of the Hawk, will be published by Ecco Press in 2001.

ROBERTO TEJADA has written on contemporary art and photography for Aperture, Art Nexus, Camerawork, Luna córnea and Third Text. He is the author of the collection Gift + Verdict (Leroy).

ANNE WALDMAN has written many books of poetry, including, most recently, Marriage: A Sentence, a prose journal from Penguin Poets. She is also the author of Iovis, Books I and II and Vow to Poetry, a collection of talks and interviews forthcoming from Coffee House Press. Devil’s Workin Overtime, a CD, is also in progress. She is a Distinguished Professor of Poetry at Naropa University.

KEITH WALDROP’s newest books are The Silhouette of the Bridge (Avec), Analogies of Escape (Burning Deck) and Haunt (Instance).

ROSMARIE WALDROP lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she edits Burning Deck books with Keith Waldrop. Her most recent books of poems are Reluctant Gravities (New Directions), Split Infinities (Singing Horse Press) and Another Language: Selected Poems (Talisman House). A translation of Edmond Jabès’s Desire for a Beginning/Dread of One Single End is forthcoming from Granary Press.

MARJORIE WELISH’s publications include The Annotated “Here” and Selected Poems (Coffee House Press); Else, In Substance (Paradigm Press); and Begetting Textile (Equipage). She recently published Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 (Cambridge University Press).

SUSAN WHEELER is the author of three collections of poetry: Bag ‘o’ Diamonds (University of Georgia Press), Smokes (Four Way Books) and Source Codes (SALT).

ELIZABETH WILLIS is the author of The Human Abstract (Penguin). She teaches at Mills College.

C. D. WRIGHT’s most recent book is Deepstep Come Shining (Copper Canyon Press). She is currently collaborating on a book project with photographer Deborah Luster titled One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana.

JOHN YAU’s forthcoming books include My Heart Is That Eternal Rose Tattoo (Black Sparrow Press) and Borrowed Love Poems (Penguin). He was recently appointed Artist in Residence at the Mount Royal Graduate School of Art at the Maryland Institute, College of Art. During the past summer, he taught at Bard and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.

KEVIN YOUNG’s first book, Most Way Home, won the National Poetry Series Award. His second collection, To Repel Ghosts, was named a finalist for the 2000 James Laughlin Award and will appear in spring 2001 from Zoland Books. He recently edited Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers, an anthology of fiction, poetry and nonfiction. He teaches poetry and film at University of Georgia.