Rachel Dacus
Rachel Dacus was born in Buffalo, New York, the daughter of a rocket scientist. She grew up in southern California in the seaside community of San Pedro. During the interesting 1960s she majored in English/French Literature and counterculture at the University of California, Berkeley. Since then she has worked with more than 50 nonprofit organizations, raising funds for healthcare, medical research and a wide variety of other causes.
Her two poetry collections are Femme au chapeau (David Robert Books, 2005) and Earth Lessons (Bellowing Ark Press, 1998). She also has two poetry CDs: A God You Can Dance (CanDance Productions, 2001) and Singing in the Pandaleshwar Caves (Alsop Review Press, 2004). Her poems, essays, reviews and stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English (Wesleyan University Press), Atlanta Review’s 10th Anniversary Anthology, Italy: A Love Story (Seal Press, 2005) and Anthology One (Alsop Review Press, 2005).
Rachel Dacus lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her architect husband and two Silky Terrierists. More of her work can be found at www.dacushome.com.
Ruth Daigon
In the late seventies, Ruth Daigon started publishing Poets On: a thematic poetry journal, and recently ceased publication after 20 years. She has contributed to major poetry journals: Shenandoah, Negative Capability, Kansas Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly, Atlanta Review, Poet Lore, Tikkun , Atlanta Review, Southern Connecticut Review, The MacGuffin, Slant, Eclectic Literary Review, Sycamore etc.—as well as Internet "E" zines including Ariga, Crania, CrossConnect, Zuzu's Petals, Switched-On-Gutenberg, Moonshade, Mudlark, Octavo, Poetry Daily , plus about 50 other E mags.—and was also Poet-Of-The-Month on The University of Chile's Pares Cum Paribus (an "E" chapbook in English and Spanish). Wed del Sol has just published her second chapbook in its ongoing chapbook series. Her latest poetry collection is Between One Future And The Next (Papier-Mache Press 1995). About A Year (Small Poetry Press in 1996), Gale Research published her autobiography in their Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, 1997. Daigon is an award winning poet The Eve of St. Agnes Poetry Award (Negative Capability, 1993) and runner up in 1994. She won the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize, 1997 (University of Southern California). Her most recent books include Between One Future and the Next (Papier-Mache Press), Payday at the Triangle and Handfuls of Time. She has published and performed her poetry in the U.S. Canada, England and Israel, and now lives in the warmth of California's Bay Area where she continues to write and wait for the next future to arrive. Email: Ruth Daigon
Dick Davis
Dick Davis was born in Portsmouth, England, in 1945, and educated at the universities of Cambridge (B.A. and M.A. in English literature) and Manchester (PhD. in medieval Persian literature). He is now Professor of Persian at Ohio State University.
He has lived most of his adult life outside his native England, including 8 years in Iran, and long periods in Greece and Italy. As author, translator or editor, he has produced 20 books; as well as academic works he has published translations from Italian (prose) and Persian (prose and verse) and books of poetry. His most recent book of poems is Belonging (in the US, Swallow / Ohio U.P.; in the UK, Anvil Press, 2002).
Rhina P. Espaillat
Rhina P. Espaillat was born in the Dominican Republic, has lived in the U. S. since the age of 7, and taught high school English in New York City for several years. She writes poetry and prose both in English and in her native Spanish. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines, including Poetry, Sparrow, The Formalist and The American Scholar, as well as in some two dozen anthologies, including An Introduc-tion to Poetry (Longman, 2001) edited by X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia, and The Beacon Best of 2001 (Beacon, 2001) edited by Junot Diaz, A Formal Feeling Comes (Story Line Press, 1994) and In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States (Arte Publico Press, 1994). She is a frequent reader and speaker in the Boston area, and conducts workshops at colleges and universities out of state as well.
Espaillat has four poetry collections in print: Lapsing to Grace (Bennett & Kitchel, 1992); Where Horizons Go (Truman State University Press, 1998), which won the 1998 T. S. Eliot Prize; Rehearsing Absence (University of Evansville Press), which won the 2001 Richard Wilbur Award; and Mundo y Palabra/The World and the Word (Oyster River Press), a bilingual chapbook. She also won the 1998 Howard Nemerov Award, the Sparrow Sonnet Prize for 1997, three yearly prizes from the Poetry Society of America, including the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award in the year 2000, and the 2001 Der-Hovanessian Translation Prize from the New England Poetry Club, among other awards.
Espaillat lives in Newburyport, MA, with her sculptor husband. She coordinates the Newburyport Art Association's Annual Poetry Contest, directs the Powow River Poets and organizes that group's monthly reading series. One of her recent community efforts has led to a cultural collaboration with a group of Spanish-language poets, Tertulia Pedro Mir, centered in the neighboring and heavily Hispanic city of Lawrence. The two groups have conducted several bilingual poetry readings, often including art and music as part of the evening's activities, in both Lawrence and Newburyport, and reciprocal visits between the creative writing groups of the local high schools of both cities, under the sponsorship of the two poetry organizations.
Patricia Fargnoli
Patricia Fargnoli's first book, Necessary Light (Utah State University Press) won the 1999 May Swenson Book Award judged by Mary Oliver, and was a semifinalist for the Glasgow Book Award.
She's also published a chapbook, Lives of Others (Oyster River Press, 2001), and another, Small Songs of Pain (Pecan Grove Press) is forthcoming in early 2004. Pat's published close to 200 poems in such journals as Poetry, Ploughshares, Passages North, Malahat Review et. al.
A retired clinical social worker, she teaches poetry in the Lifelong Learning Program at Keene State College and at the Keene Institute of Music & Related Arts.
Email: Patricia Fargnoli
Michael Glaser
Dr. Michael Glaser was named Poet Laureate of Maryland in August, 2004. Dr. Glaser has served as head of the Division of Arts and Letters, and chair of the English department at St. Mary's College of Maryland, where he co-founded and directs the bi-annual Literary Festival and the annual Voices reading series. He is a recipient of the Homer Dodge Endowed Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Columbia Merit Award from the Poetry Committee of the Greater Washington, D.C. area for his service to poetry.
Glaser has served as a Maryland State Arts Council poet-in-the-schools for over 20 years and has also served two times as a guest artist at the Maryland Artist and Teacher's Institute. Over 350 of Glaser's poems have been published in such literary journals and newspapers as the American Scholar, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Christian Science Monitor, The Antioch Review, Octavo and First Things as well as in numerous anthologies, including Unsettling America (Viking Penguin ), Outsiders (Milkweed Editions) and Light Gathering Poems (Holt). Several of his poems are included in the 2006 Poetry Speaks Calendar and his poems often appear in Sacred Journey and on the Sacred Journey web site. His works include A Lover’s Eye (The Bunny & Crocodile Press), and In the Men’s Room and Other Poems, which was the winner of the 1996 Painted Bride Quarterly chapbook competition. His most recent collection of poems, Being a Father, was published in July 2004 by The Bunny and Crocodile Press for Seasonings Press [$12.95 incl. S& H] P.O. Box 1, St. Mary's City, MD 20686).
Glaser has also edited two anthologies of Maryland poets, The Cooke Book (1989) and Weavings 2000: The Maryland Millennial Anthology. Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1943, Glaser received his B.A. from Denison University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Kent State University. He began teaching at St. Mary's College of Maryland in 1970. He lives in St. Mary's City with his wife, the educator Kathleen W. Glaser, and is the proud father of five grown children, Brian, Joshua, Daniel, Amira and Eva.
Michael Graber
Michael Graber works as a professional editor/writer in his native Memphis,
moonlights as a poetry reviewer for the Commercial Appeal, and as a vaudeville/old-time
mandolin player and crooner. In a former life, Mr. Graber served as poetry editor of River
City. Work was recently published in the Spoon River Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review and
the Habersham Review, and other print publications, as well as many on-line publications,
including Crania, Tintern Abbey, and placed first in the Alsop Review's Winter Poetry
Competition. Presently, Michael is working on a novel in verse forms and the libretto to a
requiem, but spends the majority of his time with wife and three children.
Michael's book,The Lst Real Medicine Show, can be found
here.
Email: Michael Graber
Neile Graham
Neile Graham is a Canadian poet and speculative fiction writer living in Seattle. Her poems, articles, and reviews have appeared in numerous literary magazines and in two full-length collections, Seven Robins (Penumbra Press, 1983) and Spells for Clear Vision (Brick Books, 1994), which was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Prize for the best book published in 1994 by a Canadian woman.
Many of the following poems appear in Blood Memory (BuschekBooks, 2000)."
Email: Neile Graham
Claudia Grinnell
Claudia Grinnell was born in Germany. She now lives in Monroe, Louisiana, where she teaches English at Northeast Louisiana University. In her spare time, she writes poetry, reads a lot, surfs the net, eats sushi, and stays out of trouble.
Her poems have appeared in various journals and magazines, such as Hayden's Ferry Review, New Orleans Review, Bottomfish, and The Alembic.
Email: Claudia Grinnell
Paul Guest
Paul Guest is the author of The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, winner of the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize.
His poems appear in The Iowa Review, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, Slate, Gulf Coast, Verse, Lyric and many other journals. He received his BA from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and his MFA from Southern Illinois University, where he was the Morris Doctoral Fellow.
He is online at http://paulguest.livejournal.com
Rafael Guillén
Rafael Guillén es español, nacido en Granada. Ha publicado más de veinte libros y figura en la Historia de la Literatura Española dentro de la llamada Generación del 50. En 1994 obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Literatura, tras ser finalista del Premio de la Crítica.
Rafael Guillén was born in Granada, Spain. He has published more than twenty books and is cited in the History of Spanish Literature as belonging to the so-called "50s Generation". In 1994 he was awarded the National Prize for Literature, having been a finalist for the Critics' Prize.
Sandy McKinney has been writing poetry for fifty years, translating Spanish poetry for forty or so of them, and other people have been reading it for a respectable part of that time. In 1979 she met Rafael Guillén in Granada, Spain, and their literary partnership has persisted ever since. The proudest moment of her life so far was when I'm Speaking, a bilingual edition of 28 of Guillén's poems with her translations, was presented by Northwestern University Press in the Spring of 2001. Email: Sandy McKinney
R.S. Gwynn
In 1997, R.S. Gwynn was named University Professor at Lamar University, Lamar’s highest academic rank, and he has also been recognized as an outstanding teacher by Phi Kappa Phi, the national academic honor society, and as an outstanding scholar by the College of Arts and Sciences.
His books inlcude Bearing & Distance (Cedar Rock Press, 1977), The Narcissiad, The Drive-In (winner of the Breakthrough Award from the University of Missouri Press in 1986) and . No Word of Farewell: Poems 1970-2000 (Story Line Press, 2000. )
He lives in Beaumont, Texas, with his wife, Donna. They have three sons and two grandchildren.
Steve Harris
Steve Harris was born in Arlington, Virginia.
He is married, and has three sons.
His poems and reviews have appeared in publications such as Artemis, Able Muse, Eye-Dialect, The Christian Century, and Pif. Steve is currently a book reviewer for Samsära Quarterly.
Email: Steve Harris
Lola Haskins
Lola Haskins' most recent poetry collection is Desire Lines, New and Selected Poems (BOA, 2004). Two prose books are just out: a poetry advice book-- Not Feathers Yet: A Beginner's Guide to the Poetic Life (Backwaters Press), and a book of fables about women, with images by Maggie Taylor--Solutions Beginning with A (Modernbook). Ms. Haskins' commentaries are regularly broadcast on Recess, on NPR. For more information, please see Lolahaskins.com
Andrew HudginsAndrew Hudgins, born in 1951, has won numerous awards for After the Lost War and its predecessor, Saints and Strangers. At present he teaches at the University of Cincinnati.
Amy Crane JohnsonAmy Crane Johnson is sole proprietor of Syllables Freelance Writing in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The varied work of freelance writing, especially developing health and wellness materials for such professional sports teams as the Florida Marlins and Boston Red Sox and several psychiatric hospitals, gives her access to free game tickets and a multitude of in-patient services. She spends her spare time searching for a place in the woods in which to live deliberately. She's married, with two children.
Trevor Joyce
Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1947 Trevor Joyce is the co-founder of New Writers' Press, Dublin. In 1976 Joyce published his critically acclaimed working of the Irish text, Suibhne Gealt, in The Poems of Sweeny Peregrine (NWP) eight years before Seamus Heaney's version of the same original.
In 1997, Wild Honey Press published Syzygy, which comprises twelve skeletal 'lyrics' and their rigorous transformation by a computer spreadsheet to produce an analogue to Machaut's mediaeval cancrizans. Wild Honey Press will also be publishing the chapbooks Without Asylum and Hopeful Monsters during 1999. Presently unavailable in the United States, Mr. Joyce's books may be ordered from Peter Riley, 27 Sturton Street, Cambridge CB1 2QG, England.
Email: Trevor Joyce
