| Nadya Aisenberg. | Poetry Porch featured poet. |
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Born in Johannesburg in 1949 and educated at the University of the Witwatersrand and Boston University. Has worked as a teacher, in bridge construction and in a puppet theatre. His book of poems, Vanishing Ground, was published by Quartz Press, Republic of South Africa. He teaches at Austin College in Sherman, Texas. |
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Member of the Mulberry Poets and Writers Association (MPWA) in Scranton, Pennsylvania for more than 20 years and has contributed to the publications of this group since joining. Most recently his poems appeared in Get Verse: Valley Poetry Anthology. His poetry and essays have appeared in several literary magazines, such as Pivot, Digges' Choice, The Endless Mountain Review, and also in The Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society. |
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Poetry Porch featured poet. |
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Retired English teacher who teaches poetry in Maine. |
| Harriet Malnate Bonish. | Studied writing poetry with Ottione Riccio at the Boston Center for Adult Education, Harold Bond at Cambridge Adult Education Center, and at Quincy College. Her poem, "A Visit with My Muse" was first runner-up in the Emily Dickinson Contest through Soundings East at Salem State College in 1990. |
| Paul Breslin. | Retired principal of Sterling Junior High School, Quincy, Mass. His sonnet, "When Last I Saw You," won third prize in the Langston Hughes Poetry Awards of Georgia State Poetry Society. |
| Kim Bridgford. | Directs the writing program at Fairfield University, where she is a professor of English, editor of Dogwood and the online magazine for women, Mezzo Cammin. Her book In the Extreme: Sonnets about World Records, published by Aralia Press, received the Donald Justice Award at West Chester University of Pennsylvania in 2007. |
| Bob Brooks. | Poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner. His chapbook was published by Pudding House. He lives with his wife in Concord, Mass. |
| Julia Budenz. | Poetry Porch featured poet. |
| Michael Burch. | Editor of The Hypertexts. |
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Poet and essayist whose work has appeared in Poetry, Blue Collar Review, Midwest Poetry Review, American Poets and Poetry, and Bibliophilos. Currently her sonnet sequence "The World's Last Rose: Sonnets for the Prince of Twilight" is featured on The Hypertexts. She edits a poetry magazine, The Neovictorian/ Cochlea. |
| Rafael Campo. | Practicing physician and lecturer at Harvard Medical School. His most recent volume of poetry is The Enemy, Duke University Press 2007. He has published two volumes of poetry, The Other Man Was Me, Arte Publico Press, 1994, and What the Body Told, Duke University Press, 1996, and a book of essays, The Poetry of Healing, W. W. Norton, 1997. Visit his Web site at www.rafaelcampo.com. |
| David Castleman. | Poems, tales, imaginative essays have appeared in hundreds of small magazines on both sides of the Atlantic. |
| Helen Degen Cohen. | Awards include NEA in poetry, first prize in Stand Magazine (fiction), Illinois Arts Council Award and Fellowship, Indiana Writers Conference Award. Co-founder and editor of Rhino: The Poetry Forum. |
| Martha Collins. | Directs creative writing at Oberlin College. She is author of What Words Can Do (Sheep Meadow Press) and has translated the poetry of Nguyen Quang Thieu in the collection titled The Women Carry River Water. Her most recent book of poems is Blue Front (Gray Wolf Press). |
| William Conelly. | Currently resides in England as a tutor in the Open Studies Program at Warwick University. Some earlier poems may be viewed online at wwwl.stickspress.com . |
| Miles Coon. | Has taken workshops run by Susan Mitchell, Thomas Lux, and more. |
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Most recent poetry collection The Moon Inside was published in December 1999 (Gravity/Newton's Baby). Her awards include the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize 1997 and the Greensboro Poetry Award 2000. Founder and editor of Poets On: for twenty years, until it ceased publication. Her chapbook can be read at Web Del Sol. |
| Ellen Davis. | Teaches English at Boston University. Her poems have appeared in Agni, Emily Dickinson Journal, Harvard Review, Harvard Review and others. Her first manuscript of poems is circulating. |
| Chard deNiord. | Author of three books of poetry, Night Mowing (The University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), Sharp Golden Thorn (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003), and Asleep in the Fire (University of Alabama Press, 1990). His poems have appeared recently in American Religious Poems edited by Harold Bloom, and in The Pushcart Book of Poetry. His poems have also appeared in Ploughshares, The New Republic, and TriQuarterly. He is an associate professor of English at Providence College and co-founder of the New England College MFA program in poetry. |
| Diana Der Hovanessian. | Poetry Porch featured poet. |
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Published in Compost, 96 Inc., Boston Poet, and American Writer. Prepares tax returns for a living. |
| Richard Dey. | New and Selected Bequia Poems published by Macmillan Caribbean. |
| Susan Donnelly. | Founder of Every Other Thursday Poets. Her first poetry collection, Eve Names the Animals, won the Samuel French Morse Prize of Northeastern University. A poem from her second book Transit (Iris Press 2001) was featured on Garrison Keillor's Writers Almanac in April 2006. |
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Teaches creative writing and literature at Keene State College in New Hampshire. His most recent book is Another Ice Age, Cedar Hill Publications, 2002. |
| Tanya Ubiles Duarte. | Native of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and student of creative writing at Pine Manor College. These sonnets are her first published poems. |
| Susanne Dubroff. | A full manuscript of her translations titled This Smoke That Carried Us, Selected Poems by René Char was published by White Pine Press, Spring 2004. In 1999 The Mid-American Review (Bowling Green State University in Ohio) published a twenty-eight-page bilingual chapbook of her translations of the poems of René Char entitled Nothing Shipwrecks Itself (Spring 1999, Volume XIX, Number 2). |
| K. E. Duffin. | Poetry Porch featured poet. |
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A native of the Dominican Republic, she has lived in the U.S. since the age of seven. She publishes in English and Spanish and has four poetry collections in print: Lapsing to Grace; Where Horizons Go, which won the T. S. Eliot Prize; Rehearsing Absence, which won the Richard Wilbur Award; and Mundo y Palabra/The World and the Word, a bilingual chapbook. She has won the Howard Nemerov Award, the Sparrow Sonnet Prize and prizes from the Poetry Society of America. Retired from teaching school in New York City, Espaillat lives in Newburyport, Mass. |
| Michael Fantina. | First book of poems Arcade of Dreams will be published in UK in 2007. |
| Richard Fein. | Lives in Cambridge, Mass. His most recent book publication is Reversion, Brick House Books, 2006, which also published Mother Tongue in 2004. His selected poems I Think of Our Lives was published with Creative Arts in California in 2002. |
| Annie Finch. | Author of The Ghost of Meter, (criticism) and A Formal Feeling Comes, an anthology of poetry by women. |
| Caroline Finkelstein. | Third book, Justice, has recently been published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press. For the year 1998, she lived in Florence, Italy, on an Amy Lowell Travelling Fellowship. |
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Poetry Porch featured poet. |
| Kevin Gallagher. | Editor of compost magazine, now defunct. His poems and prose have appeared in canwehaveourballback?, Harvard Review, Partisan Review, and Jacket. He works as an international environmental economist at Tufts University. |
| Margaret Galvin. | Irish poet working on her fourth collection. In 2003, she won both The Brendan Kennelly and The Snowfit Poetry Awards. Her work has appeared in a number of Irish and United Kingdom outlets, and in Mobius (New York). |
| Dana Gioia. | Director of the NEA: National Endowment for the Arts. Author of the long essay Can Poetry Matter?, two volumes of poetry, Daily Horoscope and The Gods of Winter, as well as a libretto of an opera in two acts, Nosferatu (Graywolf). |
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Photojournalist turned technical writer with large stockpile of black and white prints, technical know-how, and HTML experience. |
| Joyce Heapes. | Retired elementary school teacher who studies and writes poetry. |
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Teaches literature at MIT. His third collection of poems, Defining Absence, has been issued by Salmon Books, distributed by Dufour Editions. |
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Lives in Mississippi where she teaches first grade. |
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Poems and other writings have appeared in many publications including The Boston Review, Agni, PN Review (England), Notre Dame Review, The New Criterion, Salamander, also in the anthology World Poetry (Katherine Washburne and John S. Major, Eds.). |
| Katherine Jackson. | Poetry Porch featured poet and artist. |
| Robert K. Johnson. | His new collection, From Mist To Shadow with Ibbetson Street Press 2007, is reviewed in this issue. A previous book of poetry Sudden Turnings was published by by Impatiens Press. |
| George Kalogeris. | Poetry Porch featured poet. |
| X. J. Kennedy. | Author of, most recently, In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955-2007 (Johns Hopkins University Press) and Peeping Tom's Cabin, Comic Verse 1928-2008 (BOA Editions). |
| Kathleen Kirk. | Kathleen Kirk is a co-editor and Web manager of RHINO Magazine. Her poems appear online in Drought and in 2001: A Poetic Odyssey at chicagopoetry.com. Her work has also appeared in several print journals, including ACM (Another Chicago Magazine), Spoon River Poetry Review, and Willow Review. Formerly at DePaul University, she teaches literature and writing at Lincoln College in Lincoln, Illinois. |
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Works as an editorial specialist at Creighton University, where she is currently enrolled as a graduate student in the creative writing program. Her poetry has appeared in Shadows and Smackwarm. |
| Suzanne K. Lang. | Received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Emerson College in 2002, where she studied under Gail Mazur and Bill Knott. She received her B.A. in English and Creative Writing from Dartmouth College in 1999 and currently teaches at the College of New Jersey. |
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Award-winning writer of prose (stories, nonfiction, and journalism) appearing in Boston area literary journals, magazines, and newspapers, most recently published in Wild Apples, journal of nature, art, and inquiry. |
| Judith Liniado. | Full time visual artist of oil and watercolor landscapes and collage, specializing in Japanese and Chinese brush calligraphy and painting. |
| Ernesto Livorni. | Teaches in the Italian Language and Literature Department at University of Wisconsin. |
| Laurence Loeb. | Poems appeared recently in Mid-America Poetry Journal and in the Canadian journal FELT. His translation of a Beaudelaire poem was published in American Imago. |
| Anthony Lombardy. | Teaches classics and poetry writing at Belmont University, Tennessee. His book of poems Antique Collecting was pubished by WordTech Editions in 2004. |
| Emily Lyle. | Director of Center for Scottish Studies in Edinburgh. |
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Poetry Porch featured poet. |
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Writes and publishes poetry in London. |
| Candace McClelland. | Student at Miami University in Ohio. |
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Translations include Late into the Night: the Last Poems of Yannis Ritsos (Oberlin/Field Translation Series) and Andreas Franghias's The Courtyard, winner of the 1996 Greek State Prize for Translation. Pt. Taenaron, a book of his poems, is available from Tapir Press. He lives in Richmond, Virginia. |
| Deborah Melone. | Member of Every Other Thursday Poets. |
| Richard Moore. | Pulitzer Prize nominee, Moore has published eleven books of poetry, a novel, a book of literary criticism, and translations from Greek, Latin, French, German, and Italian. See his Web site at www.moorepoetry.com. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic, Harper's, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Nation, and many other magazines. He gives frequent public performances. |
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Studied in the Creative Writing Program at Boston University. An Indian national who grew up in Zambia, he received an MA in cultural anthropology from Stanford University and taught history and anthropology in South Africa before coming to Boston. His publications include six poems in the anthology Reasons For Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets (Penguin India, 2002), poems in the Fulcrum Annual 2003, a story in the South African magazine Mamba, and a review of the Indian poet Dom Moraes in the Summer 2002 issue of Poetry Review (London). “A.K. Natarajan and the Three Varieties of Love” is part of a projected book of stories. |
| Philip Nikolayev. | Co-editor with Katia Kapovich of FULCRUM: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics. |
| Thomas O’Grady. | Director of the Irish Studies Department at University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he also teaches. He has published poetry in Poetry Ireland, Verse, Fiddlehead, and many other journals. His first book of poems, What Really Matters, was published in 2000 by McGill-Queen's University Press in Canada. |
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Her chapbook The Man in the Picture was published in the Walking to Windward series, by Oyster River Press, 2001. |
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Essays on overlapping themes of cultural, religious, and intellectual history include the following: "Progress, Irony, and Human Sacrifice," published in Hudson Review, Spring 1995; "Deep Ecology and Fundamentalism" (part of a book-in- progress with tentative title, "Arguing Nature"), which appeared in the World Future Society's volume The Years Ahead: Perils, Problems, and Promises, 1993; "On Cranks," which was published in the Southwest Review, Summer 1991, won the John H. McGinnis Award for non-fictions, and was reprinted (abridged) in Harper's, November 1991. See new essays on-line at the Azoth Gallery. |
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Author of many collections of poetry and prose, including Colors Passing through Us (Knopf 2003), the novel The Third Child (HarperCollins 2003). Visit her Web site at www.margepiercy.com. |
| Robert Pinsky. | Professor of Creative Writing at Boston University and former U. S. Poet Laureate. |
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Poetry Porch featured artist. |
| Elizabeth Reeke. | Completed her studies at Mount Holyoke College, Harvard University, and Tufts University. Her professional work has been in the fields of psychology and education. She describes her personal journey as powerfully influenced by her love of the earth and of the music of many lands. She has studied the North Indian rudra vina, Chinese ghuzheng, and Japanese koto, and now plays the Celtic harp. She currently lives in Arizona, where she continues work on a collection of poems tentatively titled "Song of My Heart". |
| Judith Benét Richardson. | Writes poetry and books for children and young adults (The Way Home, 1991, and Come to My Party, 1993, both with Macmillan; and First Came the Owl with Henry Holt, 1996). A recent project is about growing up during the Cold War. |
| Ted Richer. | Graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Richer currently teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. His book, The Writer in the Story and Other Figurations, with an introduction by Christopher Ricks, is available through Apocalypse Press |
| Jennifer Rose. | Poetry Porch featured poet. |
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Poet and playwright in New York City. She is co-curator of the KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Reading Series. |
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Fortysomething housewife, mother, poet, reader, and part-time graduate student at the University of Louisville, recently transplanted from her home in central New Hampshire. |
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Associate professor of English at Tennessee Wesleyan College. His poems have been published in Berkeley Poetry Review, Acumen, Envoi, Orbis, and many other journals. He is currently seeking a publisher for his first book, "Queen Gertrude in Her Cups and other poems," which, in a section entitled "Love and Lust in the Western World," contains these sonnets. |
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Founder and editor of Santa Fe Poetry Broadside. |
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| Latest book is Surface Impressions: A Poem (Louisiana). He lives in Southern Vermont. |
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| Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Classical Music Editor of The Boston Phoenix, and a regular commentator for NPR's Fresh Air. His most recent book of poems is Cairo Traffic (University of Chicago Press), and he is co-editor of Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters for the Library of America. His poems, articles, and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Pushcart Prize, and The Best American Poetry. In 1994, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. |
| Rebecca Seiferle. | Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Drunken Boat. Most recent publication is Bitters with Copper Canyon Press. Her second collection of poetry, The Music We Dance To, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Poems in the collection won the Cecil Hemley Award from the Poetry Society of America and appeared in Best American Poetry 2000. Her first book The Ripped-Out Seam won the Bogin Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Writers Exchange Award. Her translation of Vallejo's Trilce was the only finalist for the 1992 PENWest Translation Award. |
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Past President of Grolier Poetry Book Shop. |
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Widely published in literary magazines and anthologies: a few of these are Blue Unicorn, The Lyric and Orbis. She has been a featured poet at many cafes in New York City and has hosted and coordinated formalist readings at the DS Restaurant in Greenwich Village, Belanthi Gallery in Brooklyn, and Alterknit Factory in Tribeca. In 2001 she published her Collected Poems, comprising over 200 pages of poetry, which is available from A Novel Idea Bookshop in Brooklyn, New York. |
| Matthew Sweeney. | Author of the poetry collections The Bridal Suite and Fatso in the Red Suit (both with Faber and Faber). |
| A. Tessier. | Upon graduation from Vassar College in 2006, he received the Deanne Beach Stoneham Prize for Best Original Poetry and the Weitzel Barber Art Travel Prize for travel in Europe during 2005. He works at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. |
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Born in the Midwest, has lived a nomadic existence, from New England to New Mexico, now in northern California, the Bay Arena; has published and taught in magazines, journals, and schools across the country. |
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Her novels have been published in Seattle, London, and New York, and reviewed in Yale Review, World Literature Today, Hudson Review, among others. Her short stories have appeared in TriQuarterly, Michigan Review, Antioch, as well as in several anthologies. This is her first poetry publication. |
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Of Madison, WI, she holds a Ph.D. in English from University of Pennsylvania; her poems, reviews, and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in various journals, including Poet Lore, Main Street Rag, Nerve Cowboy, Free Verse, Pivot, and Portland Review Literary Journal. |
| Chris Wallace-Crabbe. | Professor Emeritus in the Australian Centre at University of Melbourne. He is author of many books of poetry, lately including By and Large (Carcanet Oxford Poets) and The Universe Looks Down (Brandl & Schlesinger). Among his artist's books there has recently appeared The Flowery Meadow, his translation of Canto XXVIII of Dante's Purgatorio (Electio Editions, Melbourne). |
| Henry Weinfield. | Teaches at the Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame. |
| Joyce Wilson. | Poetry Porch editor. |
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Has published in Blue Unicorn, The MacGuffin, The Windsor Review, The Tennessee Quarterly, and more. He lives with his wife and three sons in Gliwice, Poland, where he works as a translator. |
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