Selected Contributors:

John Ashbery is Professor of English Literature at Bard College. He has been the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award.

Mary Jo Bang’s first book, Apology for Want, won the 1996 Bakeless Prize, and Great Lakes New Writers Award for a first book. She co-edits the Boston Review.

Charles Bernstein’s most recent books are My Way: Speeches and Poems (University of Chicago Press) and Log Rhythms, with Susan Bee (Granary Books). Republics of Reality: 1975-1995 is forthcoming from Sun and Moon Press.

Susan Howe’s most recent book of poems, Pierce-Arrow, was published by New Directions in spring 1999. Bed-Hangings, with drawings by Susan Bee is forthcoming from Chax Press in 2000-1.

Lisa Jarnot’s second collection of poems, Ring of Fire, is forthcoming from Zoland Books. She currently lives in New York and is writing a biography of the American poet Robert Duncan.

Ron Silliman’s most recent book, (R), is available through Small Press Distribution (www.spdbooks.org). In 1998-99, he was a Pew Fellow in the Arts.

John Tranter has published fourteen collections of poems, including Gasoline Kisses (Equipage, 1997) and Late Night Radio (Polygon, 1998). With Philip Mead he co-edited The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Australian Poetry.

Brenda Walker has written three novels, of which the most recent, Poe’s Cat, is to be published by Penguin UK in February. She is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Western Australia.

John Hartley Williams’ most recent book of poems is Canada (Bloodaxe, 1997).

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