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2004 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. 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. 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. 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 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 universitiesJune 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |