Jennifer Chang (1976) is the author of The History of Anonymity. She co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman and is an Assistant Professor in Creative Writing and Literature at Bowling Green State University.

  Allyson Clay, cover photograph. Allyson Clay lives and works in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Her works are in public collections across Canada including the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ontario. She has been the beneficiary of many awards including Senior Artist Grants from the Canada Council, the Mexico/Canada/USA artist exchange residency, and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency Program. She is represented by the Katzman Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

  Michael Collier (1953) teaches in the Creative Writing program at the University of Maryland. His sixth book of poems, An Individual History, was published in 2012 by W. W. Norton. He is director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

  Randall Couch (1954) edited and translated Madwomen: The Locas mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral, winner of the Poetry Society (UK) biennial Popescu Prize and one of two finalists for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. An administrator at the University of Pennsylvania, he teaches poetry writing and poetics at Arcadia University.

  Stephen Cushman (1956) is the author of four books of poems, most recently Riffraff and the forthcoming The Red List (both with LSU). He is also the author of two works of literary criticism and a book about the civil war, and he is General Editor of the newly released fourth edition of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (2012). He is Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

  Kate Daniels (1953) lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of four books of poetry, and of numerous essays and articles on contemporary poetry. She also teaches writing at the Washington D.C. Center for Psychoanalysis.

  Kyle Dargan (1980) is the author of three collections of poetry, The Listening, Bouquet of Hungers, and Logorrhea Dementia. He lives in Washington, D.C., where he teaches Creative Writing and actively participates in the local writing community.

  Claudia Emerson (1957) is the author of five books including Late Wife, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and, most recently, Secure the Shadow. Emerson has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Library of Congress, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Former Poet Laureate of Virginia, she teaches at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

  Monica Ferrell (1975) is the author of Beasts for the Chase (Sarabande), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, and a novel, The Answer Is Always Yes (Random House), named one of Booklist’s Top Ten Debut Novels of 2008. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Discovery/The Nation prizewinner, she directs the Creative Writing program at Purchase College.

  David Francis (1982) is a Ph.D. candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He was a Fulbright Fellow in Colombia, and has recent translations in Guernica: A Journal of Art and Politics, Inventory, and The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry.

  Gabriel Fried (1974) is the author of Making the New Lamb Take, named a top ten poetry collection of 2007 by Foreword magazine and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He is Poetry Editor at Persea Books.

  Alice Fulton (1952) received a 2011 Award in Literature, “to honor exceptional accomplishment,” from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books include The Nightingales of Troy: Connected Stories; Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems; and Felt, which received the Bobbitt Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress.

  Rachel Hadas (1948) is Board of Governors Professor of English at the Newark campus of Rutgers University. Her new book of poems is The Golden Road (Northwestern University Press, 2012). Her book about her husband’s illness, Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry, was published in 2011 (Paul Dry Books).

  Brenda Hillman (1951) is the author of eight collections of poetry, the most recent of which are Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005) and Practical Water (2009). She is Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry at St. Mary’s College of California. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She maintains a web presence at www.blueflowerarts.com/brenda-hillman

  Edward Hirsch (1950) is the author of eight poetry books, including The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems (2010), and four prose books, among them How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (1999), a national bestseller, and Poet’s Choice (2006).

  Jane Hirshfield (1953), a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Come, Thief (Knopf, 2011), four books collecting the work of poets from the past, and a now-classic book of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry.

  Mark Jarman (1952) is the author of Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems. He has also published two books of essays about poetry, The Secret of Poetry and Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry. He is Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

  Laura Kasischke (1961) was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has published eight collections of poetry and eight novels. She received the National Book Critics Circle award for her collection, Space, In Chains. She lives in Chelsea, Michigan, with her husband and son, and she teaches at the University of Michigan.

  Jennifer Key (1974) is author of The Old Dominion, winner of the 2012 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. Her prizes include a Henry Hoyns Fellowship at the University of Virginia and a Diane Middlebrook Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin. She teaches at the University of North Carolina-Pembroke and edits Pembroke Magazine.

  L.S. Klatt (1962) has published work in The Believer, Boston Review, Colorado Review, FIELD, Columbia Poetry Review, The Cincinnati Review, New Orleans Review, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. His second collection, Cloud of Ink, won the Iowa Poetry Prize and was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2011.

  Joanna Klink (1969) is the author of three books of poetry, They Are Sleeping, Circadian, and Raptus. Her works-in-progress include a fourth book of poems and a lyric meditation on Paul Celan, called Strangeness. She is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award and the Jeannette Haien Ballard Writer’s Prize.

  Hank Lazer (1950) has published seventeen books of poetry, including Portions, The New Spirit, and Days. Lazer’s seventeenth book of poetry N18 (complete), a handwritten book, is available from Singing Horse Press (http://singinghorsepress.com/titles/n18). Audio and video recordings of Lazer’s poetry can be found at http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Lazer.html

  Paul Legault (1985) is the co-founder of the translation press Telephone Books and the author of three books of poetry: The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn, 2010), The Other Poems (Fence, 2011), and The Emily Dickinson Reader (McSweeney’s, 2012).

  Bailey Lewis, interior book design. Bailey Lewis is a fiction writer and graphic designer. She is finishing her MFA in fiction at the University of South Carolina.

  Willie Lin (1987), who received her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, works as a writer and editor in Madison, Wisconsin.

  Maurice Manning (1966) was a Guggenheim fellow for 2011-2012. His fourth book of poetry, The Common Man, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011. Manning teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and at Transylvania University in Lexington. He lives in Kentucky.

  Cate Marvin (1969) is the author of two books of poems, World’s Tallest Disaster (2001) and Fragment of the Head of a Queen (2007). Her third book of poems, A Trembling, is forthcoming from Norton in 2013. A Whiting Award recipient, Marvin is an Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the College of Staten Island, CUNY.

  Heather McHugh (1948), a 2009 MacArthur Fellow, teaches intermittently at the University of Washington in Seattle and at the MFA Program at Warren Wilson College. She founded and administers a non-profit, CAREGIFTED (http://caregifted.org/), to give away to full-time caregivers of disabled family members week-long vacations in spectacular settings in Washington state and Downeast Maine.

  Erika Meitner (1975) is the author of three books of poems, including Ideal Cities (HarperCollins, 2010), a 2009 National Poetry Series winner. Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, VQR, Tin House, The Best American Poetry 2011, and elsewhere. She is currently an Associate Professor of English at Virginia Tech.

  Carol Muske-Dukes (1945), poet, novelist, essayist, and literary critic, is the author and editor of nearly twenty books, most recently Twin Cities: Poems (Penguin, 2011), now in its second printing. Her novel Channeling Mark Twain has been optioned for film, and she is currently finishing a play. Among her many awards and honors was the Poet Laureateship of California.

  Amy Newman (1957) is the author of four books, most recently fall (Wesleyan) and Dear Editor (Persea). She is Presidential Research Professor at Northern Illinois University, where she teaches poetry writing, and modern and contemporary literature.

  Meghan O’Rourke (1976), poet, editor, and critic, is the author of two books of poems, Halflife (2007) and Once (2011). The Long Goodbye: A Year of Grieving, a memoir, appeared to wide acclaim in 2011.

  Eric Pankey (1959) is the author of nine collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Trace (Milkweed Editions, 2013). He is Heritage Chair in Writing and Professor of English at George Mason University. A new collection of poems, Crow-Work, is due from Milkweed Editions in 2015.

  Kiki Petrosino (1979) is the author of Fort Red Border (Sarabande, 2009). An Assistant Professor at the University of Louisville, Petrosino teaches Creative Writing and co-edits Transom, an independent on-line poetry journal. Her latest collection, Hymn for the Black Terrific, will be published by Sarabande in 2013.

  Carl Phillips (1959) has written twelve books of poetry, most recently Silverchest (FSG, 2013) and Double Shadow (FSG, 2012), winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

  John Poch (1966) is Professor of English at Texas Tech University and has published three poetry collections, most recently Dolls (Orchises Press, 2009). For ten years he was the editor of 32 Poems Magazine. His poems have appeared in Paris Review, The Nation, Poetry, Agni, Yale Review and other journals.

  Bin Ramke (1947) has published eleven books of poems, most recently Tendril (Omnidawn, 2012). He teaches on occasion at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and holds the Phipps Chair at the University of Denver, where he was for seventeen years editor of the Denver Quarterly.

  Srikanth Reddy (1973) is the author of two books of poetry—Facts for Visitors and Voyager—and a scholarly study, Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Harvard University’s doctoral program in English, Reddy currently teaches at the University of Chicago.

  Michael Rutherglen (1983) is the 2012–2013 Amy Clampitt Resident and a founding editor the Winter Anthology (winteranthology.com). His poems have appeared in Poetry and The Southern Review.

  Mary Ann Samyn (1970) is the author of five collections of poetry, including, most recently Beauty Breaks In (New Issues, 2009) and My Life in Heaven, winner of the 2012 FIELD Poetry Prize (Oberlin College Press, 2013). She teaches in the MFA program at West Virginia University.

  Philip Schultz (1945) is the author of a memoir, My Dyslexia (Norton, 2012), and seven poetry collections, most recently The God of Loneliness, Selected and New Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) and Failure (HMH, 2007), for which he won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. He founded and directs The Writers Studio, a private school for fiction and poetry, with branches in Manhattan, Tucson, San Francisco, Amsterdam, and online, now in its 25th year.

  Sarah Schweig (1984) is the author of S. Her poems have appeared in BOMB Magazine, Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Western Humanities Review, and Verse Daily, among others. She received Columbia University’s David Craig Austen Memorial Award for poetry. She lives in Brooklyn.

  Allison Seay (1980) is the author of a collection of poems, To See the Queen, and recipient of a 2011 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. She has served as the Arrington Poet-in-Residence at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.”

  Ravi Shankar (1975) is the Pushcart Prize-winning author/editor of seven books, chapbooks and anthologies of poetry, including W.W. Norton’s Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East & Beyond. He founded and edits Drunken Boat, teaches in Hong Kong & Connecticut, and is working on a memoir.

  Ron Slate (1950) is author of The Incentive of the Maggot (Houghton Mifflin, 2005), which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Prize and the Lenore Marshall award. His most recent book of poems is The Great Wave (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009).

  R. T. Smith (1947) is Writer-in-Residence at Washington and Lee University, where he edits Shenandoah and teaches in the English Department. His books of poetry include Messenger and Outlaw Style, both recipients of the Library of Virginia Award in Poetry, and The Red Wolf, just released by Louisiana Literature Press. He lives in Rockbridge County, Virginia.

  Mary Szybist (1970) is the author of two books: Granted (Alice James Books, 2003), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Incarnadine (Graywolf Press, 2013). She lives in Portland, Oregon, and teaches at Lewis & Clark College and the Warren Wilson MFA program.

  Larissa Szporluk (1967) is the author of five books of poetry. Her new book, Traffic with Macbeth, was published in 2011 by Tupelo Press, and her poem “Sunflower” appeared in Best American Poetry 2012. The recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry, she teaches Creative Writing at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.

  Brian Teare (1974), a former NEA fellow, is the author of The Room Where I Was Born, Sight Map, the Lambda Award-winning Pleasure, and Companion Grasses, forthcoming from Omnidawn in 2013. An Assistant Professor at Temple University, he lives in Philadelphia, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.

  William Thompson (1956) was born in Jackson, Mississippi. He attended Millsaps College and completed his graduate studies at the University of Virginia. He teaches at Troy University, where he edits the Alabama Literary Review.

  David Wojahn (1953) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. His eighth collection of poetry, World Tree, appeared from the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2011 and received both the Library of Virginia Award for Poetry and the Lenore Marshall Prize of the Academy of American Poets.

  Charles Wright (1935) is the recipient of a number of literary prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Wright lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he recently retired from the English Department of the University of Virginia. His most recent book is Bye-and-Bye, Selected Late Poems.

  Ye Chun (1973) is the author of two books of poetry, Lantern Puzzle (Tupelo Press, 2013) and Travel Over Water (Bitter Oleander Press, 2005), as well as a novel in Chinese. Her translation of Hai Zi’s poetry, Wheat Has Ripened, is forthcoming from Tupelo in 2013.

  Claire Zoghb, cover design. Claire Zoghb’s first collection, Small House Breathing, won the 2008 Quercus Review Poetry Series Annual Book Award. Her chapbook, Dispatches from Everest, is forthcoming. A graphic artist and book designer, she is Graphics Director at Long Wharf Theatre.

  Copyright Acknowledgments

  All of the poems and columns in this anthology appeared, most often for the first time, in the Chronicle of Higher Education Review “Monday’s Poem” and “Spaar on Poetry” features of the Arts & Academe and Brainstorm blogs, and are reprinted here by permission of the authors named below and of Lisa Russ Spaar.

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