January 28, 2004
Ralph Angel
Ralph Angel was born in Seattle, Washington,
in 1951. He is the author of Twice Removed (Sarabande
Books, 2001), Neither World, which received the 1995
James Laughlin Award, and Anxious Latitudes (1986).
His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry,
The Antioch Review, The American Poetry Review,
and many other magazines, and have been collected in numerous
anthologies, including The Best American Poetry, New
American Poets of the 90s, and Forgotten Language:
Contemporary Poets and Nature. His most recent honors
include a Pushcart Prize, and awards from the Fulbright Foundation
and Poetry magazine. Mr. Angel now lives in Los Angeles
and is the Edith R. White Distinguished Professor of English
at the University of Redlands, where he teaches creative writing.
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February
25, 2004
Stephanie Brown
Stephanie Brown was born in 1961 in
Pasadena, California and grew up in Newport Beach. She
has degrees from Boston University, The University of Iowa
and the University of California, Berkeley. She has
published more than thirty poems in American Poetry Review
since 1988 and won the magazine's Jessica Nobel-Maxwell award
in 1996. Her first full-length collection of poems,
Allegory of the Supermarket, was published in 1998.
She was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
in poetry in 2001. Her poetry and essays have been anthologized
in many different collections, most recently in The Grand
Permission, a collection of essays about motherhood and
poetics, published in 2003.
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March 31, 2004
Killarney Clary and James McMichael
Killarney Clary grew
up in Pasadena, California, and is the author of the recently
released Potential Stranger (University of Chicago
Press, 2003), as well as By Common Salt (Oberlin College
Press, 1996), and Who Whispered Near Me (Farrar, Straus
& Giroux, 1989). A recipient of a Lannan Foundation Fellowship
in 1992, Killarney Clary has taught Graduate Writing Workshops
at the University of California, Irvine, and the University
of Iowa. She lives in Los Angeles.
James McMichael is the author of The Lover's Familiar
(1978), Four Good Things (1980), Each in a Place Apart
(1994) and The World at Large: New and Selected Poems,
1971- 1996 (1996). Mr. McMichael is the recipient of
a Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, a
Whiting Foundation Writer's Award, and the 2003 Shelley Memorial
Award. He is professor of English and Comparative Literature
at the University of California at Irvine, and co-director of
the Programs in Writing.
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April 28, 2004
Doreen Gildroy and Michael Ryan
Doreen Gildroy's first book, The
Little Field of Self (University of Chicago Press, 2002)
won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares
magazine. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review,
Ploughshares, and TriQuarterly.
Michael Ryan is the author of three poetry collections, including
In Winter and God Hunger, along with a fourth
collection to be released in 2004. He is also the author
of several prose works, including A Difficult Grace: On
Poets, Poetry, and Writing, and Secriet Life,
a memoir. His work has been honored by the Lenore
Marshall Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, the Yale Series of
Younger Poets Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Ryan
is a professor of English and Creative Writing at The University
of California, Irvine.
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May 26, 2004
Judith Hall and Sharon Bryan
Judith Hall is the author of To Put The
Mouth To (William Morrow: 1992), which was selected for
the National Poetry Series, Anatomy, Errata (Ohio State:
1998), and The Promised Folly (TriQuarterly/Northwestern:
2003). For a time she directed the PEN Syndicated Fiction
Project and was senior program specialist for literary publishing
at the National Endowment for the Arts. She now serves
as poetry editor of The Antioch Review, and her poems
have appeared in such magazines as The Paris Review,
The Yale Review, VOLT, and in the Best American
Poetry anthology series. She has received a Pushcart
Prize and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts
and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. She has also served
as a judge for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and
as a panelist for the NEA. She teaches at the California
Institute of Technology.
Sharon Bryan has won an Academy of American
Poets Prize, the Discovery Award from The Nation, and
two fellowships in poetry from the NEA. Her collections are:
Salt Air, Objects of Affection, and Flying Blind.
Editor of Where We Stand: Women Poets on Literary Tradition
(Norton), she has been a visiting writer at many colleges and
universities.
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June 30, 2004
Jeffery McDaniel and Allyson Shaw
Jeffrey McDaniel is an acclaimed
performance poet whose work has appeared in many literary publications,
including Ploughshares and Best American Poetry 1994.
He has performed in such diverse festivals as Lollapalooza 1994,
the Moscow Writers Union, the Globe in Prague, the National
Poetry Slam, and at numerous venues throughout the U.S. A noted
poet, McDaniel has appeared on ABC’s Nightline and NPR’s
Talk of the Nation. He is the author of the books Alibi
School, May 1995, The Forgiveness Parade, October
1998, and The Splinter Factory, Sept. 2002 (Manic D Press).
Allyson Shaw, a novelist and
poet, edits the e-zine Die Cast Garden. She has
been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her work has appeared
in Mudfish, Volt, Third Coast, and Melic
Review, among other journals. Her short fiction is anthologized
in Absolute Disaster. Her first collections of poems,
The Bon-bon and Love Token will be published by Del
Sol Press in early 2004.
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July 28, 2004
Patty Seyburn and Chris Abani
Patty Seyburn's second book of poetry,
Mechanical Cluster, won the 2002 Ohio State University
/ The Journal Award in Poetry. Her first book, Diasporadic
(Helicon Nine Editions, 1998) won the Marianne Moore Poetry
Prize and the American Library Association Notable Book Award
for 2000. She is adjunct professor at the University of Southern
California.
Chris Abani’s novels are Masters of the Board (Delta,
1985) and GraceLand (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004).
His poetry collections include Kalakuta Republic (Saqi,
2000), Daphne’s Lot (Red Hen, 2003) and Dog
Woman (Red Hen, fall 2004). He is the recipient of the 2001
PEN USA West Freedom-to-Write Award, the 2001 Prince Claus Award
and a 2003 Lannan Literary Fellowship. He is a Middleton Fellow
at the University of Southern California and is a Visiting Assistant
Professor at the University of California Riverside.
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August 25,
2004
Arthur Vogelsang and
Elena Karina Byrne Arthur Vogelsang
is the author of A Planet (Holt, 1983), Twentieth
Century Women (University of Georgia Press, 1988), Cities
and Towns (University of Massachusetts Press, 1996, which
received the Juniper Prize, and Left Wing of a Bird (Sarabande,
2003). Since 1973 he has been editor of The American
Poetry Review, after working several years as an editing
supervisor for McGraw-Hill Book Co. in New York and for the
Kansas Arts Commission. He has taught poetry and literature
at the University of Southern California, the University of
Redlands, and the University of Iowa, and is the recipient
of three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a
fellowship from the California Arts Council.
Elena Karina Byrne is a teacher, visual
artist, Poetry Moderator and Consultant for the LA Times Festival
of Books, and former 12 year Regional Director of the Poetry
Society of America. She has served as Poetry Consultant to
the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and curated the poetry
reading series at The Getty Center. This year she will also
run the reading series for USC's Doheny Memorial Library,
and The Ruskin Art Club/Red Hen Press Poetry Series. With
Stephen Yenser, she is the 2004-2005 Poetry Editor for The
Los Angeles Literary Review. Her many recent publications,
among others, include, The Yale Review, Chelsea, Verse,
The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Poetry, Ploughshares,
Colorado Review, Prairie Schooner, Painted Bride Quarterly,
Denver Quarterly, Volt, Hotel Amerika, The Journal,
Nimrod, Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World's Most Popular
Poetry Website and The Anthology of Magazine Verse
& Yearbook of American Poetry. Elena is a seven-time
Pushcart Prize nominee who has won awards from the Academy
of American Poets, The Chester H. Jones Foundation and the
Kudzu Poetry Prize. Her first book, The Flammable
Bird is available from Zoo Press. She is completing another,
Masque and a collection of essays on poetry and contemporary
culture entitled, Poetry and Insignificance. Elena is working
with Red Car Studios on a Poetry Clip/Motion Picture Project.
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September 26,
2004
Claudia Keelan and
Donald Revell
Claudia
Keelan is the author of four collections of poetry: Refinery,
The Secularist, Utopic, and The Devotion Field. The
Secularist was a finalist for both the Los Angeles Times
Books Award and the PEN West medal in 1998. Her poetry has been
anthologized in The Body Electric, the 1997 Anthology
of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry, and
What Will Suffice. Her honors include the Robert D. Richardson
award for the best essay published by the Denver Quarterly in
1997; a 1991 fellowship from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation
of New Mexico; and a 1992 grant from the Kentucky Foundation
for Women. She teaches at the University of Nevada--Las Vegas.
Donald Revell is the author
of eight collections of poetry: From the Abandoned Cities,
The Gaza of Winter, New Dark Ages, Erasures, Beautiful Shirt,
There Are Three, Arcady, and My Mohave, as well as a translation
of Guillaume Apollinaire's Alcools and The Self-Dismembered
Man. His honors include the PEN Center USA West award, the
Gertrude Stein Award, the Shestack Prize, a Pushcart Prize,
and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts as
well as from the Ingram Merril and Guggenheim Foundations.
He teaches at the University of Utah.
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October
27, 2004
C. Malin Davidson
and Michelle Mitchell-Foust C. Malin
Davidson received his BA from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and
his MFA from the University of California, Irvine. He has
taught at UCI, Whittier College, Chapman University, and currently
is Assistant Professor of English at Biola University, where
he directs the freshmen composition program and teaches creative
writing. His poems have appeared in Dust Up, the Alaska
Quarterly Review, the Cimarron Review, and Die
Cast Garden, and he is working on his first book of poems,
tentatively titled "Sherlockiana."
Michelle Mitchell-Foust is an American
Poet in Residence at the Poets’ House in Donegal, Ireland
as well as a teacher of writing in southern California. She
earned her doctorate from the University of Missoui, and her
book Circassian Girl (2001) was the winner of the Elixir
Prize. Her new book of poetry, Imago Mundi, is due
out from Elixir Press in 2005. Her chapbook Poet
at Seven (1995) was published by Sutton Hoo Press, and
her chapbook Exile (2000) was published by Sangha Press.
Her chapbook The Marriage Bed of Chang and Eng is
due out from Sangha Press in 2005. A Chinese version of her
book The Five Dreams of the Body was published by T
and K Publishing (1999). She is a winner of the Nation/”Discovery’
award, the Columbia University Poetry Prize, the Missouri
Arts Council Award, a Writers at Work Fellowship, and an Academy
of American Poets Prize, and her poetry and essays have appeared
in The Nation, Antioch Review, Colorado Review,
Columbia, Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review,
Denver Quarterly, Interim, American Literary
Review, The Academy of American Poets New Voices
Anthology, and Rain Taxi, among others. Her verse
play Hologram just appeared in the new issue of Elixir.
She was an editor for Missouri Review, Elixir Press,
and Missouri Press.
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December
1, 2004
Alicia Partnoy and
Gail Wronsky One of Argentina's 30,000
"disappeared," Alicia Partnoy was abducted from
her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp
where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners
were killed. Her writings were smuggled out of prison and
published anonymously in human rights journals. The Little
School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival is Alicia
Partnoy's memoir of her disappearance and imprisonment in
Argentina in the 1970s. Told in a series of tales that resound
in memory like parables, The Little School is proof
of the resilience of the human spirit and the healing powers
of art.
The Little School has appeared on the London Times
bestsellers list and was a Pushcart Foundation Writer's Choice
Selection. The NEA selected The Little School for exhibition
at the Buenos Aires and Frankfurt Book Fairs, and the Association
of Jewish Publishers selected the book for exhibition at the
Moscow International Bookfair. This edition features an introduction
by Julia Alvarez.
A member of the board of directors of Amnesty International
USA, Partnoy has presented testimony on human rights violations
to the United Nations, the Organization of American States,
Amnesty International, and human rights organizations in Argentina.
Gail Wronsky is the author of Again
the Gemini are in the Orchard (poetry), Dying for Beauty
(poetry), The Love-talkers (fiction), and co-author
with Molly Bendall of the Calamity and Belle books. Her poems
and reviews have appeared in Antioch Review, Denver
Quarterly, Boston Review, Volt, Runes,
88, and other journals. She is the recipient of Artist
Fellowships from the California Arts Council and the Utah
Arts Council. Her translations of the poetry of Argentinean
poet Alicia Partnoy and of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
in Buenos Aires have appeared in journals and anthologies,
including A Chorus for Peace (University of Iowa).
She teaches creative writing, women's studies, and Surrealism
in the Syntext Program at Loyola Marymount University in Los
Angeles.
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