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Christopher Ankney's poems have recently appeared or forthcoming from Burnside Review, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review and DIAGRAM, among other places. He shapes impressionable minds with his ideas on writing, literature and cultural studies. He and his wife Lynn make their home in Chicago, where their Italian greyhound begrudges the cold. (cankey@colum.edu)
Recommended poets: Michael Dumanis, Ian Harris, Cynthia Lowen.
Aaron Baker is the author of Mission Work, the winner of the 2007 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for poetry, selected by Stanley Plumly. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford University, he received an MFA at the University of Virginia. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his wife, the poet Jennifer Chang. He teaches at Hollins University.
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Elaine Bleakney's poems have appeared most recently in Hotel Amerika. She contributes to The Kenyon Review online and is editing an anthology of poetry for Harry N. Abrams to be published next spring. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and Northern Michigan.
Recommended poet: Laura Jensen.
Weston Cutter is from Minnesota and has had work recently in Santa Clara Review and Hawai'i Pacific Review. (wlcutter@vt.edu)
Recommended writer: Caren Beilin.
Joe Gallagher works for the Massachusetts Cultural Council as the Poetry Outreach Project Coordinator, helping to bring poetry to more people throughout the Commonwealth. He is also the poetry editor for Redivider, a journal of new literature published by Emerson College, where he is studying towards an MA in Publishing. His poetry has been previously published in small journals such as Fusion and Skylight. His company, Mushroom Cloud Press, publishes plays written by high school students.
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francine j. harris is a Cave Canem fellow and has work appearing or forthcoming in McSweeney's "Poets Picking Poets", Ninth Letter, The Drunken Boat, Ploughshares and in the recent anthology, To Be Left With the Body. She is Writer-in-Residence at a local high school in her hometown Detroit. (francinejharris@gmail.com)
Recommended poets: Bob Hicok, Reginald Shepherd.
Katie Manning is a visiting professor of writing at Point Loma Nazarene University for the 2008-2009 school year. Her poetry and book reviews have been published or are forthcoming in Ancient Paths, Driftwood, Downgo Sun, Kansas City Voices, New Letters, ONTHEBUS, and Relief. She recently received the Harriette Yeckel in Honor of Ingrid de Kok Award and the Crystal Field Scholarship for Poetry.
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Diane Kirsten Martin's work has appeared in Field, Poetry Daily, New England Review, Crazyhorse, Zyzzyva , Hayden’s Ferry Review, Bellingham Review, Third Coast, North American Review, 32 Poems, Tar River Review, CutBank, and Nimrod, among others. She was awarded second place in the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize competition, judged by B.H. Fairchild, in 2004. She was nominated for and included in Best New Poets 2005. In 2006, she was semifinalist in the “Discovery”/ The Nation competition. She lives in San Francisco and works as a technical writer and editor. Visit her website here. (dianekmartin@sbcglobal.net)
Recommended poet: Robert Thomas.
Ron Moss lives in Tasmania, an island state of Australia and a place of stunning wilderness that inspires his art and poetry. He has been deeply interested in Eastern art and philosophy from an early age. and has pursued this interest through extensive reading and through the study of Japanese writing forms including haiku. Ron also studies and practice martial arts, Zen meditation, sumi-e (ink painting) and haiga (an art form that combines haiku and watercolour painting) and he has participated in several exhibitions. Ron's poetry has been translated in several languages and is widely published in journals and anthologies. He has won numerous awards both within Australia and overseas (including Japan). To view more of his work, visit Ron's website: www.ronmoss.redbubble.com (ron.moss@education.tas.gov.au).
Recommended poets: Beverly George, Karen Knight, Max Ryan.
Gregg Mosson is the author of a book of nature poetry, Season of Flowers and Dust (Goose River Press, 2007), and editor of Poems Against War: Music & Heroes (Wasteland Press). He has an MA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and lives and work in Baltimore, Maryland. Visit him at www.greggmosson.com.
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Cecily Parks' Field Folly Snow was published earlier this year by the University of Georgia. Her chapbook, Cold Work, won the 2005 Poetry Society of America New York Chapbook Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in a variety of publications, including Best New Poets 2007 and Tin House, and she has an essay in A Leaky Tent is a Piece of Paradise: Twenty Young Writers on Finding a Place in the Natural World. She is a PhD candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.
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Sam Rasnake's work has appeared recently in MiPOesias, Pebble Lake Review, Poetry Midwest, Siren, Snow Monkey, Ecotone: Reimagining Place, and From East to West. He is the author of two collections, Religions of the Blood (Pudding House) and Necessary Motions (Sow’s Ear Press), and also edits Blue Fifth Review, an online poetry journal. (bluefifth@lycos.com)
Recommended poets: Natasha Trethewey, Adam Zagajewski.
Jeanne Wagner is the recipient of several national awards, including The Francis Locke Award, The MacGuffin Poet Hunt and the Ann Stanford Prize. Her poems have recently appeared in the Southern Poetry Review, Mississippi Review and the Atlanta Review among others. Her publications include The Zen Piano-Mover (NFSPS Press), winner of the 2004 Stevens Manuscript Award, The Falling Woman (Pudding House), The Conjurer (Anabiosis), and forthcoming from Poets Corner Press, Medusa in Therapy. (jeannewgnr@sbcglobal.net)
Recommended poet: Theodore Worozbyt.