Contributors to Fascicle 2

 

 

Demosthenes Agrafiotis is a Greek poet living in Athens. He is active in the fields of poetry/painting/photography and intermedia. He edited the anthology-formatted magazine Clinamen from 1980-90. He has authored over 13 books of poetry in both Greek and French, and has exhibited his art, photography and media-instilations in over 60 shows worldwide. He is the author of 11 books of essays on arts sociocultural
phenomenon and art and techo-science. He is frequently invited by national and international organizations to speak about poetry, social science, technology and art. He is Professor of Sociology at the National School of Public Health, Athens, Greece.

Anastasia Baille makes music, books shows for struggling electronic music artists and is prone to disappearing. The letters on her computer keyboard have worn off. She resides in Miami Beach or Tucson or New York.

Jeff Baker writes, "The son of a seamstress and a bootlegger, I grew up in a place called Smokey Branch, Tennessee under a gunpowder sky. Loneliness, etc. Later on, I earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where I often wore thermal underwear. Some of my recent poems appear in Cutbank, American Letters and Commentary, and The Southeast Review. These days I live in Charlottesville, Virginia with my wife and daughter."

John Balcom has been translating modern Chinese literature for a quarter century. He is the head of the Chinese program in the Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation at the Monterey Institute of International Studies as well as the president of the American Literary Translators Association. His Indigenous Writers of Taiwan: An Anthology of Stories, Essays and Poems was published by Columbia University Press in 2005.

Eric Baus is the author of The To Sound (Verse Press) as well as a new chapbook, Something Else The Music Was (Braincase Press). His poems have appeared in Hambone, Verse, 26, Conjunctions Web, and other journals.

Joshua Beckman is the author of four books of poetry, most recently YOUR TIME HAS COME (Verse Press, 2004). He is also a translator of the work of Tomaz Salalmun, and the upcoming Five Meters of Poems by Carlos Oquendo de Amat (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005).

"Body Language" is from Dodie Bellamy's latest collection, Academonia, forthcoming from Factory School Press. Other books include Pink Steam (2004, Suspect Thoughts Press) and The Letters of Mina Harker (reprinted by the University of Wisconsin Press, 2004). Her book Cunt-Ups (Tender Buttons) won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for poetry.

Charles Borkhuis' recent books include Mouth of Shadows (plays), Savoir-Fear (poems) and Alpha Ruins (poems), selected by Fanny Howe as runner-up for the William Carlos Williams 2001 Book Award. His book-length poem “Afterimage” is forthcoming from Chax Press in 2006. His essays on poetry recently appeared in two books: Telling It Slant : Avant-garde Poetics of the 1990s and We Who Love to Be Astonished: Experimental Women's Writing and Performance Poetics, both from the U. of Alabama Press. His play Phantom Limbs won a Drama-logue Award and Critics Choice in the L.A. Times. He is the former editor of Theater:Ex magazine and has been a curator in the Segue poetry series for 12 years. His screenplay Undercurrent was a finalist in the Robert Vague NYU film award. His play Sunspots will be produced in French in Paris during March and April of 2006.

Born in Augsburg, Germany in 1898, Bertolt Brecht was a poet, playwright and theatre reformer of singular genius. Brecht studied medicine at Munich and served in an army hospital before heading to Berlin in 1924. His early plays were written during this time, include Baal (produced in 1923) and Trommeln in der Nacht (Drums in the Night), which won the Kleist Preis in 1922. His early poems and songs appeared in 1927 as Die Hauspostille (Devotions).
     In Berlin, Brecht worked closely with Elisabeth Hauptmann, Margarete Steffin, Ruth Berlau and other writers to produce Lehrstücke (didactic plays), which presented a form of theatre for participants rather than passive spectators. In collaboration with the composer Kurt Weill, he wrote the ballad opera Die Dreigroschenoper (1928; The Threepenny Opera) and the opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (1930; Rise and Fall of the Town of Mahoganny). Brecht developed a powerful collectivist stance in his writing and, influenced by the eminent Marxist theoretician, Karl Korsch, embraced Marxism.
     With the rise of Nazism in Germany, Brecht fled to Scandinavia (1933-41) and later to the United States (1941-47). He wrote important theoretical essays during this period and the poems collected in 1939 as Svendborger Gedichte (Svendborg Poems). His prolific output as a playwright included Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1941; Mother Courage and Her Children), Leben des Galilei (1943; The Life of Galileo); Der gute Mensch von Sezuan (1943; The Good Person of Szechuan), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (first produced in English, 1948; Der kaukasische Kreidekreis , 1949) and Der Aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui (1957; The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui).
     Brecht returned to Berlin in 1949 and founded his own company, the Berliner Ensemble. The rest of his life was spent working rigorously with the Ensemble and staging of his own plays. He died in East Berlin in 1956.

Lee Ann Brown, a poet, filmmaker, and performer and is Assistant Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City. She has published two books of poetry, The Sleep That Changed Everything (Wesleyan, 2003) and Polyverse (Sun & Moon,1999). Her poetry has also been included in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 2001, and in pamphlets, broadsides and chapbooks as well as being translated into French, Swedish, Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian. Recent journal publications include The Chicago Review, Verse, The Baffler, and Five Fingers Review.

Mary Burger is the author of Sonny (Leon Works, 2005) and co-editor of Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative (Coach House Books, 2004).  She edits Second Story Books, featuring cross-genre narrative works. Earlier books inlcude Bleeding Optimist (Xurban) and Thin Straw I Suck Life Through (Melodeon). She lives in Oakland.

Mairéad Byrne's current publications include three chapbooks, An Educated Heart (Palm Press, 2005), Vivas (Wild Honey Press, 2005), and Kalends (Belladonna* 2005); a talk, Some Differences Between Poetry & Standup (www.ubu.com); and poems in the current issues of 5AM, The Argotist Online (http://www.argotistonline.co.uk); The Denver Quarterly, The Drunken Boat, Free Verse, MiPOesias (www.mipoesias.com); and Volt. She teaches poetry at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and will be reading soon at a venue near you—if you ask her.

Cao Shuying was born in Nov. 1979 in Ha'erbin of Heilongjiang Province. She obtained her Ph.D. from Beijing University in comparative literature and world literature. Her poems were collected in many Poetry Collections and was published in periodicals such as Writers, People's Literature, Star, Poetry , etc. and in many non-official poetry journals like Wings, Deviation, Selected Poems of 70's Poets, Battlefield, Provinces, etc. She also writes prose and fairy tales besides poems.

Wayne Chambliss is a poet and translator of poetry, prose, and criticism from sources in several languages, including Italian, Russian, and Ancient Greek. His work has appeared recently in Fence, jubilat, Drunken Boat, Octopus, and a number of other literary journals. He lives in New York City.

Chen Dongbiao was born on Nov. 1967 in Shanghai and was educated in Foreign Language Department in East China Normal University. He translated into Chinese and published Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Poems 1923-1967, A Jew Today by Elie Wiesel, The Agony of Flies by Elias Canetti, Journals by W. B. Yeats, etc.

Chen Dongdong was born in 1961 in Shanghai and started writing when he was twenty and graduated from the Chinese Literature Department of Shanghai Normal University. He held jobs as teacher, archive clerk, opera journal editor, website designer and writer, poetry journal editor etc. He is the author of multiple volumes of poetry and prose including the most recent poetry collection Down to Yang Zhou (2001).

Cheng Wei was born in Yueyang, Hunan in 1966. He majored in English in Wuhan University in 1984-1988. He was graduated from Beijing University with a Comparative Literature Master. He obtained his Ph.D. in American Literature in 2002. He works now in the Institute of Foreign Literatures of Academy of Social Sciences of China as a professor. He published several books including novels and essays. He lives in Beijing.

Peter Cole is an American poet living in Jerusalem. His most recent book of poems is Hymns & Qualms from Sheep Meadow Press. He's also a translator from Hebrew. Recent translations include Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid, Love & Selected Poems of Aharon Shabtai, and, From Island to Island: Poems by Harold Schimmel. Peter Cole is also the publisher and editor of Ibis Editions, based in Jerusalem, a literary press that publishes Arabic, Hebrew, and literary work from other languages in English translation.

Daniel Comiskey is a poet who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. He is a member of the Seattle Research Institute, a group of writers who collaborate on books, lectures and other projects. With Kreg Hasegawa, he edited Monkey Puzzle, a magazine of poetry and prose. He was a member of the poetry programming committee for Northwest Bookfest in 2002, and a guest curator for the Subtext Reading Series in the fall of 2003. Other past tense involvements include his work as literary manager for The Poet's Theater, which produced readings of dramatic works written by poets including John Ashbery, e.e. cummings, Joyelle McSweeney, and Frank O'Hara. He has also been involved in a series of ongoing art pranks, including the "internationally recognized" installation piece entitled "Radiator," and has collaborated with other poets on a number of works, the most recent of which is the long poem "Crawlspace," written with C.E. Putnam and forthcoming as a chapbook .

Martin Corless-Smith was born in Worcestershire, England. His books include Of Piscator (Univeristy of Georgia Press), Complete Travels (West House Books), Nota (Fence Books) and Swallows (Fence Books).

Brenda Coultas is the author of A Handmade Museum which was published by Coffee House Press in 2003. She has lived in New York City's East Village for the past ten years, and is currently a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellow.

Bruce Covey teaches at Emory University and is the author of The Greek Gods as Telephone Wires and the forthcoming Ten Pins, Ten Frames, both from Front Room Publishers in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His recent poems also appear or are forthcoming in 26, The Hat, Bombay Gin, Explosive Magazine, LIT, 88, Boog City, 580 Split, Pool, and other journals. He edits the web-based poetry magazine Coconut (http://www.coconutpoetry.org) and curates the What's New in Poetry reading series in Atlanta.

John Cross's work has appeared in VOLT, Pool, Absomaly, and Forklift, Ohio. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Christine and teaches seventh-grade English at Westridge School for Girls in Pasadena.

Orphaned at 15, Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle attended school no longer than the law requires, matriculating to a life in rooming houses. After 2 decades of heroin and hospitals, he reached that point at which he could not spell his own name. Then he took up writing. He has been published in Fence, Verse, Purple, Exquisite Corpse, The Paris Times, and elsewhere.

Caroline Crumpacker lives with her partner Tom O'Malley and their daughter Colette in Upstate New York. She is an editor for Fence Magazine, a contributing editor for Circumference and Double Change (an online magazine of French and American poetries) and curator for the Bilingual Poetry Reading Series at the Bowery Poetry Club in Manhattan. She received a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA in 2001/02. Her translations, essays, poems have appeared in the books American Poets in the 21st Century: Who we are Now (Wesleyan University Press, 2005); Talisman Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry (Talisman, 2004); and Love Poems by Younger American Poets (Verse Press, 2004), and in magazines including American Letters and Commentary, Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Can We Have Our Ball Back, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, DoubleChange, Fence, The Germ, Gulf Coast, Hors Bord (in French), jubilat, L'Oeil de Bouef (in French), Logopoeia, Lungfull!, mem, No, Ploughshares, Provincetown Arts, Poetry Project Newsletter, Seneca Review, Shankpainter, Third Coast, and Volt.

Joseph Donahue's most recent volume of poetry is In this Paradise: Terra Lucida XXI-XL. Previous titles include World Well Broken and Incidental Eclipse, both available from Talisman House.

John Mercuri Dooley's work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Mprsnd, BlazeVOX, Shampoo, untitled: a magazine of prose poetry, Journal of Modern Writing, Spectaculum, Gestalten, Coconino and elsewhere, and has been distributed as mail art by Marymark Press. Sound work and visual poetry has been presented at Brickbottom Gallery and visual poetry at Oni Gallery in Boston. He is in the process of co-edited a tribute to Jackson Mac Low in the second issue of Chax Press' journal, Eoagh. Contributors will include Charles Bernstein, Anne Tardos and Steve McCaffery. He is also the co-curator of Demolicious, a monthly poetry/multimedia series in Cambridge. Poets who have or will read for Demolicious include Jackson Mac Low, Anne Tardos, Kathleen Fraser, Anselm Berrigan and Jena Osman.

Buck Downs is a poet and book artist, and publisher of Buck Downs Books. His exhibition is available in book form for $15.00, contact him if you're interested. A portion of book sales goes to DCAC.

Cathy Eisenhower lives in Washington, DC, and has a chapbook, Language of the Dog-heads, from Phylum Press (2001). Her first book, clearing without reversal, will come out from Edge Books this summer.

Clayton Eshleman's most recent books are Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination & the Construction of the Underworld (Wesleyan University Press, 2003), My Devotion (Black Sparrow Books, 2004) and Conductors of the Pit (Soft Skull Press, 2005, reviewed Fascicle 1). A selection of new poems by Eshleman is available on the Ygdrasil website: http://www.synapse.net/kgerken/. Eshleman is a professor emeritas from Eastern Michigan University; he continues to live in Ypsilanti with his wife Caryl; sponsored by the Ringling School of Art and Design, they continue to lead yearly tours to the Ice Age caves in southwestern France.

Pauline Fan is a translator based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is currently working on Malay translations of selected poems by Bertolt Brecht and Paul Celan. Her translation into Malay of Immanuel Kant's Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung? is due to be published in 2006. She has also translated, into English, essays by the late Malaysian artist, Ismail Zain, for Intermediations – Selected Writings on Art and Aesthetics.

Graham Foust lives in Northern California, where teaches at Saint Mary's College.  He is working on a book about Wallace Stevens.  Flood Editions will
publish Necessary Stranger, a book of his poems, later in 2006.

Tony Frazer, (b. 1951) lives in the south-west of England, where he edits Shearsman magazine and publishes Shearsman Books, a press devoted mainly to contemporary poetry. He translates poetry from German and Spanish and recently published In the year one. Selected Poems by Lutz Seiler (Giramondo Publishing, Sydney, 2005). In 2002 he co-edited Chicago Review's "New Writing in German" special issue.

Tracey Gagné has been living in Atlanta, GA for the past four or so years after several spent living and traveling abroad. She's a member of the Atlanta Poets Group and has been published in two previous issues of Moria, Journal of Artists' Book, and Score.

Kate Greenstreet's chapbook, Learning the Language, was published recently by Etherdome Press. Her first full-length book will be out from Ahsahta Press in September 2006. Her blog is at www.kickingwind.com. "on the way to the ice" is made of phrases from Lorine Niedecker's letters.

Noah Eli Gordon is the author of The Frequencies (Tougher Disguises, 2003) and The Area of Sound Called the Subtone (Ahsahta Press, 2004) as well as numerous chapbooks, reviews, collaborations & other itinerant writings. Recent work can be found in Your Black Eye and Weird Deer. After a decade in Massachusetts, he has recently relocated to Denver, CO. Find his links here.

Gordon Hadfield is the co-author of correspondence (with Sasha Steensen), a chapbook published by Handwritten Press in 2005. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fence, Chain, Ribot, and other magazines. Other translations from Abdellatif Laâbi's Fragments of a Forgotten Genesis appeared in Circumference and Blaze Vox. He teaches at Colorado State University.

Nancy Hadfield is a French scholar and professor of Medieval Literature at Central Methodist University. Other translations from Abdellatif Laâbi's Fragments of a Forgotten Genesis appeared in Circumference and Blaze Vox.

Han Bo was born 1973 in Mu Dan Jiang, Hei Long Jiang province. He graduated from Fu Dan University in Shanghai with Law and Literature degrees. He is the author multiple poetry collections including No Entry for Minors (2000), A Banquet of Knots (2002). He won Li-An Liu poetry prize in 1998. He also wrote and directed several plays since 1996. His short stories have been published in literary journals.

Han Dong was born in 1961, graduated with a bachelor in philosophy from Shan Dong University. He is the author of multiple titles in poetry, fiction and non-fiction. He was the editor of the poetry journal They. He has been involved in various internet journals and publication venues since 2000.

Roberto Harrison edits Crayon with Andrew Levy and the Bronze Skull Press chapbook series. He curates the Enemy Rumor reading series with Kiki Anderson in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Two full length collections are due out in 2006: Os (subpress)
and Counter Daemons (Litmus). He works as a Systems Librarian.

Lyn Hejinian is a poet, essayist, and translator; she was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives in Berkeley. Published collections of her writing include Writing is An Aid to Memory, My Life, Oxota: A Short Russian Novel, Leningrad (written in collaboration with Michael Davidson, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten), The Cell, The Cold of Poetry , and A Border Comedy; the University of California Press published a collection of her essays entitled The Language of Inquiry. Translations of her work have been published in France, Spain, Japan, Italy, Russia, Sweden, and Finland. She is the recipient of a Writing Fellowship from the California Arts Council, a grant from the Poetry Fund, and a Translation Fellowship (for her Russian translations) from the National Endowment for the Arts; she was awarded an Award for Independent Literature by the Soviet literary organization “Poetics Function” in Leningrad in 1989. She has travelled and lectured extensively in Russia as well as Europe, and Description and Xenia, two volumes of her translations from the work of the contemporary Russian poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, have been published by Sun and Moon Press. From 1976 - 1984, Hejinian was the editor of Tuumba Press and from 1981 to 1999 she was the co-editor (with Barrett Watten) of Poetics Journal. She is also the co-director (with Travis Ortiz) of Atelos, a literary project commissioning and publishing cross-genre work by poets; Atelos was nominated as one of the best independent literary presses by the Firecracker Awards in 2001. Other collaborative projects include a work entitled The Eye of Enduring undertaken with the painter Diane Andrews Hall and exhibited in 1996, a composition entitled Qúê Trân with music by John Zorn and text by Hejinian, a mixed media book entitled The Traveler and the Hill and the Hill created with the painter Emilie Clark (Granary Press, 1998), and the experimental film Letters Not About Love, directed by Jacki Ochs, for which Hejinian and Arkadii Dragomoshchenko wrote the script. In the fall of 2000, she was elected the sixty-sixth Fellow of the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.

Matthew Henriksen lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Roberto Clemente Middle School in Harlem.  His poems appear (or will appear) in 42Opus, Dirt, Horse Less Review, Indiana Review, Octopus, storySouth and The Tiny.  He co-edits Typo and curates the Burning Chair Reading Series.

John High is the author of six books, including his award-winning (Village Voice top 25 books of the year) trilogy of novels, The Desire Notebooks, and his recently published selected writings, Bloodline. He is the recipient of four Fulbrights, two NEA's, and writing awards from the Witter Bynner Foundation, Arts International, and the Academy of American Poets. A translator of contemporary Russian poetry, he was the chief editor of Crossing Centuries: The New Russian Poetry. He is the founding editor of the Five Fingers Review. He has taught Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, Moscow State Linguistics University, and Montclair University. Currently, he is on the faculty of the English Department at Long Island University. His most recent book HERE will be published by Talisman House Publishers in 2006. A Zen practitioner, he lives in Brooklyn with his daughter, Sasha, and his girlfriend, Andrea.

Jen Hofer moved to Los Angeles from Mexico City in 2002. Her recent publications include Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women (University of Pittsburgh Press and Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003), a feature section on contemporary Mexican poetry in the New York-based journal Aufgabe, slide rule (subpress, 2002), and the chapbooks lawless (Seeing Eye Books, 2003) and sexoPUROsexoVELOZ (translations of poetry by Dolores Dorantes, Seeing Eye Books, 2004). Her next books will be a collaboration with poet and musician Patrick Durgin, forthcoming from Atelos, and a full-length translation of Dolores Dorantes' sexoPUROsexoVELOZ, forthcoming from Kenning editions. Other poems, prose texts and translations appear in recent issues of the journals Bomb, Bombay Gin, damn the caesars, War and Peace, and Wherever We Put Our Hats, and in the anthology Séance (Make Now Press, 205). She is happily a founding member of the City of Angels Ladies' Bicycle Association, also known as The Whirly Girls.

Bob Holman's eighth and ninth books are A Couple of Ways of Doing Something, a collaboration with Chuck Close (Art of this Century/Pace Editions), and Carved Water (Tinfish), his translations of the poetry of Zhang Er. He is Visiting Professor of Writing at Columbia University and Proprietor of the Bowery Poetry Club. He is Artistic Director of Study Abroad on the Bowery, an applied poetics program launched in 2005, and publisher of Bowery Poetry Press.

Brian Howe is Marcus Slease. He lives in Korea and/or North Carolina.

Dan Hoy is co-editor of Soft Targets.

Hu Xudong, poet, column writer, was born in 1974 in He Chuan, Chong Qing. He obtained his Ph.D. in Literature from Beijing University. He is an associate professor at the World Literature Research Institute at Beijing University. He visited and lectured in Brazil from 2003 to 2005. He is the author of three collections of poetry, including From the Water's Edge, Wind Milk and When Love is a Spreading Disease. He was awarded many poetry prize such as the Liu Li-An poetry prize, Tomorrow poetry prize. His poetry has been translated into English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, French, German, and Swedish etc.

Brenda Iijima is the author of Around Sea (O Books, 2004). Animate, Inanimate Aims is forthcoming from Litmus Press. She runs Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs in Brooklyn, NY.

J.L. Jacobs was born in a small town in rural southeastern Oklahoma. She grew up under the auspices of the settlement's oldest Midwife. She studied art, photography and literature at the University of Oklahoma. She graduated from Brown University's MFA program and currently teaches writing at the University of Oklahoma. Her work has appeared in such journals as Ploughshares, New American Writing, New Orleans Review, American Letters & Commentary. Books include, Varieties of Inflorescence, Leave, 1992 and, The Leaves in Her Shoes, Lost Roads, 1999. Representative work appeared in American Poetry: The Next Generation from Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000.

Originally from New York, Eleanor Johnson is a successful West Coast graft, pursuing an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Medieval English Literature at UC Berkeley.  She has published an essay on freshyarn.com and a set of poems on shampoopoetry.com, and she is currently working on a reedition of the Song of Solomon, combining the King James and the Vulgate translations.

Kent Johnson's Epigramititis: 118 Living American Poets, a book of poems and images, is soon forthcoming from BlazeVox Books. The book can be ordered here. He is editor of Also, with My Throat, I Shall Swallow Ten Thousand Swords: The English Letters of Araki Yasusada (Combo Books, 2005) and author of Lyric Poetry after Auschwitz (Effing Press, 2005). Translations of work he is variously related to, as author or editor, have recently appeared or are appearing in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Italy, Russia, Japan, and Bosnia.

Jeffrey Jullich was horoscope columnist for the magazine VICE, and librettist for the opera American Lit: (Queer Theory) The Hawthorne-Melville Correspondence (premiered at American Opera Projects). Poetry, criticism and translations of his have
appeared in New American Writing, Fence, Shiny, Ecopoetics, Aufgabe, Bird Dog, LIT, Boston Review, American Letters & Commentary, etc., etc., and, in Paris, in Upstairs at Duroc. Excerpts from comic books he did at the age of eleven years old have been published (now as an adult) in Chain, Blazevox and LUNGFULL!, and appear as audio-recorded segments on Edwin Torres' on-line WPS1.com radio program, “Live Nude Radio.” He is editor of the journal LOGOPOEIA.

Aaron Kiely was raised in Boston and lives in New York. He is the founding editor of Torch magazine. His first book, The Best of My Love, is published by Ugly Duckling Presse.

Kokho is a translator and an on-line poetry journal editor from Singapore.

Poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist, Abdellatif Laâbi is one of the most prolific and critically acclaimed of contemporary North African writers. Born in Fez, Morocco in 1942, he founded the journal Souffles in 1966, which played a major role in sparking a literary and artistic renaissance throughout the Maghreb. Imprisoned from 1972 to 1980 for his political beliefs and his writings, he has lived in Paris since 1985. His most recent works in French are Ecris la vie (Editions de La Différence, 2005) and Œuvres Poétiques I (Editions de La Différence, 2006). His works in English translation include a collection of poetry, The World's Embrace (City Lights Books, 2005) and a novel, Rue du Retour (a translation of Le Chemin des ordalies, Readers International, 1989).

Maryrose Larkin has recently had poems in Bird Dog and in GutCult. She is a member of the Spare Room Poetry Collective, and an editor of the now defunct FLASH+CARD, a postcard press. A chapbook, Inverse, will be available from nine muses books in early 2006.

Hank Lazer has published 12 books of poetry, most recently The New Spirit (Singing Horse, 2005), Elegies & Vacations (Salt, 2004), and Days (Lavender Ink, 2002). He edits the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series for the University of Alabama Press. Recent poems of his, along with two essays (by Rachel Back and Donald Revell) about The New Spirit, can be found in the current issue of Golden Handcuffs Review.

Rachel Levitsky's first full length volume of poetry, Under the Sun, was published by Futurepoem books in 2003. She is the author of five chapbooks of poetry, Dearly, (a+bend, 1999), Cartographies of Error (Leroy, 1999), The Adventures of Yaya and Grace (PotesPoets, 1999), 2 (1x1)Portraits (Baksun, 1998) and Dearly, 3,4,6 (Duration Press, 2005). She is one of Zhang Er's poet translators.

Lü De-An was born in 1960 in Fu Zhou, Fu Jian province. He was trained as painter and interior designer. He was involved with the poetry journal They in the 80s. He is the author of multiple volumes of poetry, including Paper Snake, The North from the South and A Stubborn Rock. He first visited US in early 90s. He currently lives and travels between New York City and Fu Jian.

Brian Lucas lives in Bangkok, Thailand. He is originally from Califonia. His book Light House will be published by Meeting Eyes Bindery/Spuyten Duyvil sometime in the near future.

Adrian Lurssen is originally from South Africa, now living in Mill Valley, CA. Work is forthcoming in Five Fingers Review and 580 Split. He and Susan Tichy had work accepted in the recent Indiana Review collage and collaboration issue.

Nicholas Manning is a Paris-based poet who graduated from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia with a B.A in Comparative Literature and French. He was a recipient of a scholarship to the Ecole normale supérieure, where he is currently hoping to begin a PhD dissertation on the subject of rhetoric in contemporary French and American Poetry. His poems have appeared, or are soon to appear, in the following journals: Free Verse, MiPOesias, eratio, Stylus, Aught, Shampoo, Dusie, Manifold, The Rose & Thorn, BlazeVOX, Snow Monkey, Blue Fifth Review, Cipher Journal, Fire, Centoria and Imago.

Carl Martin is a graduate of Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa. He has published two books of poetry: Go Your Stations, Girl (Arion Press, San Francisco) and Genii Over Salzburg (Dalkey Archive Press, Univ. of Illinois). He is at work on a third collection titled Rogue Hemlocks. Mr. Martin is a MacDowell Fellow and has been published in various literary magazines including American Poetry Review, the Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, and Combo. He was born in Winston-Salem, NC where he currently resides.

Aaron McCollough has a book coming out in the fall of 2006 called Little Ease.  His other books are Double Venus and Welkin.  He grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee and married a woman named Suzanne Chapman who also came from those parts.  Presently, they live in Michigan together.

Stan Mir has published poetry and prose in Colorado Review, Forklift, Ohio, Free Verse, Octopus, and The Poker among other publications. New work is forthcoming in LVNG.

Mo Fei was born in Beijing on Dec 31, 1960. He began his writing career in 1970s. His main works includes Palm Trees (a long poem, 1982), A Band of Mad Men (a poetic drama, 1985), Emptiness of the Empty (a collection of poems, 1987), Words and Things (1989-1991), Spiritual History (a collection of poems, 1996), Days Without Description (a long poem, 1995), Garden Without Time (a long poem, 1996), Words Without Scenes (a long poem, 1996), Scissors Without Cutting (a long poem, 1997), A Collection of Sonnets (1999), Record of Passing the Lamp (a collection of poems, 2000), Qingliang Mountain (a collection of poems, 2002). His works has been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Greek, Spanish, Dutch and Arabic. In November of 1997, he was invited to attend the Fourth International Poetry Festival in Paris, France. He is now living in Beijing.

Geraldine Monk was born in Lancashire and now lives in Yorkshire. Her work has been described as ‘wild, erotic and deeply strange. A poetry that reveals the unspeakable weirdness of the everyday.'Her Selected Poems was published in 2003 by Salt Publishing. Her latest collection, Escafeld Hangings, was brought out in 2005 by West House Books. For more details on the ‘unspeakable weirdness' of Geraldine Monk please visit: www.westhousebooks.co.uk.

Rusty Morrison's collection, Whethering, won the 2004 Colorado Prize for Poetry. Her poems &/or essays are published or forthcoming in Boston Review, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Five Fingers Review, New American Writing. She is co-publisher of Omnidawn, one of five editors of 26, and a contributing editor for Poetry Flash.

Chris Murray told me that bios, like blurbs, are absurd. Chris also told me to behave & kindly acknowledge the various journals where Chris' writings can or will soon be found: Sentence, LIT, American Book Review, Black Spring, Score19, Yale Angler's Journal, Mem 3, Shampoo, Blaze Vox , Sidereality, Moria, Tin Lustre Mobile, can we have our ball back?, Eclectica, & Znine. & as you've seen, the very fine Fascicle. With Hoa Nguyen & Susan Briante, Chris curates the print journal, Super Flux, which debuts in Austin, TX, at AWP in March 2006. A 2004 chapbook, Meme Me Up, Scotty! can be acquired via chris.murray.qwerty@gmail.com. For 3 years Chris has been po-blogging at chris murray's Texfiles & for 10 years, teaching rhetoric & literature at University of Texas at Arlington, but most joyful of all: raising 3 shiny children & 1 tortie cat called Mouse.

David Need lives with his wife and four cats in Durham NC. An Ohio-Massachusetts boy, David teaches Asian Religions and Literature at Duke, as well as classes on the Beat Generation Writers and the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky and Stanley Kubrick. David is largely unpublished save in small-run hand-made editions. His critical writing has appeared in Oyster Boy, The Independent, and he writes the Distopial Column for Mipoesias.

Tom Orange is a Lecturer in the Department of English and a Learning Specialist in the Disability Support Services office at The George Washington University. Since Fall 2005 he has co-curated the in your ear reading series at the DC Arts Center and managed the dcpoetry.com website. Recent poems appear in The Poker #7.

Eugene Ostashevsky is the author of Iterature, a book of poems published by Ugly Duckling Presse, and the editor of OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism, forthcoming from Northwestern University Press.

Pak: Born December 25, 1975 in Seoul, South Korea. Self-taught painter; began painting in 1999. Have had work exhibited in galleries and shows in New York City, New York, Denver, Colorado, Atlanta, Georgia, Fairhope, Alabama, and Appleton, Wisconsin. Have resided in Montgomery, AL since November 2003. Link: http://www.marciaweberartobjects.com/nichols.html

Lance Phillips has published two books Corpus Socius and Cur aliquid vidi, both with Ahsahta Press. He lives in Charlotte, NC with his wife, son and daughter.

Scott Pierce lives in Austin and publishes the books and magazine of Effing Press. The Knife Alarm in its entirety will be published as one poem some time in 2006.

Emilio Prados (1899-1962), an important poet of the Generation of 1927. Littoral, his literary press in his hometown of Málaga, was among the first to publish works by his associates including Federico Garcia Lorca, Jorge Guillén, Vicente Aleixandre, Luis Cernuda, Manuel Altoaguirre. He was committed to the education and labor rights of ordinary people. He spent the years after the Spanish Civil War in Mexico, working as a book designer. This selection is from the mystical sequence, Jardín Cerrado (1946).

Nate Pritts is the editor of H_NGM_N.  A chapbook, The Happy Seasons from Swannigan & Wright, is online at http://www.thematter.net and a new chapbook, Winter Constellations, is forthcoming in print from horse less press.  Other poems can be seen in print from The Southern Review, POOL & Forklift & online at DIAGRAM & Unpleasant Event Schedule.  Originally from Syracuse, NY, Nate lives in Natchitoches, LA.

whereas randy prunty lives at the clairmont poetry lounge in atlanta; and whereas he writes stuff with the atlanta poets group; and whereas recent work can be seen online in cranky, blazevox, and coconut;  and whereas a new chapbook is out from 3rdness called delusiveness; and whereas another chapbook called fish is due out soon from lavender ink; be it hereby proclaimed that "aboutness" is a tough nut to crack. 

Jason Pym holds diploma of Chinese to English Translation from Institute of Linguistics, UK. He worked as a professional translator and editor since 2000 for various international journals in China. He also works as a freelance translator.

Ying Qin was born in 1975 in Shandong Province, P. R. China. She obtained a Master degree in Chemistry from Fudan University in Shanghai in 1997. She worked as an editor at Shanghai Far-East Publishing House for a year, then came to the United States to study at University of Rhode Island. She obtained two Master's degrees, one in Computer Science (2002) and another in English Literture (2005).

Bill Ransom's poetry was nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He's published six novels and numerous short stories, most recently in Carve magazine. A CD of his recent poetry collection, War Baby, is available from Wordman Production Company. He teaches at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.

Victor Reinking teaches French and African literature at Seattle University. He edited and translated, with three collaborators, a selection of Abdellatif Laâbi's poems, The World's Embrace (City Lights Books), and is currently completing work on an anthology of contemporary Moroccan poetry in English translation.

Donald Revell is the author of 9 volumes of poetry, most recently of Pennyweight Windows: New and Selected Poems (Alice James Books, 2005). A recipient of the PEN Award in poetry (twice) and of the Academy of American Poet's Lenore Marshall Prize (for My Mojave), he has been given fellowships from the NEA as well as from the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations. Wesleyan University Press has published 2 collections of his translations of the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire: Alcools (1995) and The Self-Dismembered Man (2004). Revell is a Professor of English at the University of Utah, where he also serves as Director of Creative Writing.

Cynthia Sailers is the author of Lake Systems (Tougher Disguises Press), and the chapbooks Rose Lungs (atticus/finch) and A New Season (Duration Press). She was the co-curator of the New Brutalism Reading Series in Oakland, as well as the The New Yipes Series with David Larson. Her work is forthcoming in Bay Area poetics, The Small Press Traffic Newsletter, and The Recluse. She is currently in a Doctorate program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

John Sakkis' poetry, interviews, translations and reviews have recently appeared/ forthcoming in Small Town, Bombay Gin, Aufgabe, Mirage #4/ Period(ical), The Poker, Drill, Sliding Uteri, Hot Whiskey, Shampoopoetry.com and Shuffle Boil. He edits BOTH BOTH magazine and is Translation Editor for Bombay Gin.  A new chapbook An Anglo-Saxon History is just out from Detumescence Press. Last summer Silas Press (Greece) published his translation of Greek poet Siarita Kouka's long poem, Benthos. A short play, Game 6, was performed at Small Press Traffic's 2005 Poet's Theater Jamboree in San Francisco. He is from San Francisco and currently studies at The Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University.

Andrew Schelling teaches poetry, Sanskrit, & bioregional writing at Naropa University. His most recent books are Two Elk: A High Country Journal (bootstrap productions) and The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry (Wisdom Publications). He is currently translating verses from Jayadeva's 12th century Gita-govinda (Sanskrit) and has just finished an essay to accompany Jaime de Angulo's collected poems, edited by Stefan Hyner and to be issued this spring from La Alameda Press.

Shu Cai was born in Fenghua, Zhejiang on March 26th, 1965. He majored in French in Beijing Foreign Study University. From 1990 to 1994 he was a diplomat of the Chinese embassy in Senegal. Since June, 2000, he works in the Foreign Literature Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His published works include A Loner (1997), a poetry selection; Peep (2000), an essay selection. His works have been translated into English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Arabic. He was invited to attend the 4th International Poetry Festival in Paris in November, 1997. He also translated such books as Selected poems of Pierre REVERDY, Selected Poems of Rene CHAR, Selected Poems of Yves BONNEFOY(2002). He is now living in Beijing.

Morgan Lucas Schuldt studies at the University of Arizona where he also edits CUE: A Journal of Prose Poetry.  New work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pleiades, LIT, POOL, and the Massachusetts Review.  A brief essay on the poet Larry Levis was recently included in A Condition of the Spirit:  The Life and Work of Larry Levis (Eastern Washington University Press, 2004).

Leonard Schwartz is the author of several collections of poetry, including Ear And Ethos, (Talisman House, 2005), The Tower of Diverse Shores, Words Before The Articulate: New and Selected Poems, (Talisman House), Gnostic Blessing (Goats and Compasses), Meditation (Cloud House), Objects of Thought, Attempts At Speech (Gnosis Press) and Exiles: Ends (Red Dust Press). He is also the author of a collection of essays, A Flicker At The Edge Of Things: Essays on Poetics 1987-1997 (Spuyten Duyvil).

Laura Sims's first book of poetry, Practice, Restraint, recipient of the 2005 Fence Books Alberta Prize, was published in November. She was recently awarded a JUSFC/NEA Creative Artist Exchange Fellowship to spend six months in Japan in 2006. She has published two chapbooks: Bank Book (Answer Tag Press) and Paperback Book (3rd Bed), and her poems have appeared in the journals First Intensity, 26, How2, 6X6, and 3rd Bed, among others. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where she teaches creative writing and composition.

Marcus Slease is Brian Howe. He lives in Korea and/or North Carolina.

Laura Solórzano was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco in 1961. She is the author, most recently, of Boca perdida (bonobos, Metepec: 2005), lobo de labio (Cuadernos de filodecaballos, Guadalajara : 2001) and Semilla de Ficus (Ediciones Rimbaud, Tlaxcala: 1999). She is on the editorial board of the literary arts magazine Tragaluz, and currently teaches writing at the Centro de Arte Audiovisual in Guadalajara. Translations of her poems into English have been published in the online magazine HOW2, in issue #3 of the magazine Aufgabe, and in the anthology Sin puertas visibles (University of Pittsburgh Press and Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003).

Boyd Spahr edits the online poetry series Order & Decorum, and has work forthcoming in mark(s).

Rob Stanton lives in Leeds. He completed a PhD on 'vision' in American poetry in 2003 at the University of Leeds and he is currently training to be a teacher. His poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in can we have our ball back?, Great Works, Octopus, Poetry & Audience, The Rialto, Salt/Verse, Shearsman and Stride. His blog-sequence Copy can be accessed at www.sonofissue.blogspot.com

Eric Sweet is a painter, an Italianist, and a translator of poetry and prose. He currently resides in San Diego.

Anne Tardos is a poet and visual artist.
       She is the author of the multilingual performance work Among Men, which was produced by the (WDR) West German Radio, in Cologne. She has lectured and performed her works widely in the United States and Europe.
       Her books of multilingual poems and graphics are The Dik-dik's Solitude: New and Selected Works (New York: Granary Books, 2003); A Noisy Nightingale Understands the Tiger's Camouflage Totally (New York: Belladonna Books, 2003); Uxudo (Berkeley/Oakland: Tuumba Press/O Books, 1999); Mayg-shem Fish (Elmwood, CT: Potes & Poets Press, 1995); and Cat Licked the Garlic (Vancouver, B.C.: Tsunami Editions, 1992).
        Examples of her visual texts were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1993; the Venice Biennale (Fluxus Pavillion), 1990; Museo d'Arte Moderna, Bolzano, 1991; the New Museum, New York, 1992; and the Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, 1999.
       Examples of her recordings can be heard on the CDs A Chance Operation: The John Cage Tribute, collaboratively composed and performed with Jackson Mac Low (New York: Koch International, 1992), and Open Secrets (New York: Experimental Intermedia XI 110, 1993) and on the cassettes Songs and Simultaneities, with Mac Low (New York: Tarmac-1, 1981), and Gatherings (New York: New Wilderness Audiographics 8137A, 1981).
        She met Jackson Mac Low in 1975; the two lived and worked together from 1978 until his death in 2004.

Hans Thill, poet and translator, was born in Baden-Baden in 1954 and has lived in Heidelberg since 1974. He is co-founder of the press Das Wunderhorn, and runs the workshop Poesie der Nachbarn. Dichter übersetzen Dichter (Neighbours' Poetry. Poets Translate Poets). He has translated a large number of French authors, including Goll, Apollinaire, Giono, Sollers, Soupault and Queneau, and has co-edited two important anthologies of contemporary German poetry, Punktzeit, Deutschsprachige Lyrik der achtizger Jahre, and Das verlorene Alphabet. Deutschsprachige Lyrik der neunziger Jahre. His collections of poetry include Gelächter Sirenen (1985), Zivile Ziele (1995) and Kühle Religionen (2003), all from Wunderhorn. The last of these was awarded the Peter Huchel Prize for 2004, and the sequence translated here is drawn from it.

Susan Tichy has poems in recent or forthcoming issues of 42opus.com, Agni, Hotel Amerika, and Beloit Poetry Journal. Her third book, Bone Pagoda, is forthcoming from Ahsahta Press. She lives in Colorado and in Virginia, where she teaches at George Mason University.

Rodrigo Toscano is the author of To Leveling Swerve (Krupskaya Books, 2004), Platform (Atelos, 2003), The Disparities (Green Integer, 2002) and Partisans (O Books, 1999). His work has recently appeared in Best American Poetry, 2004 (Scribner's) and War and Peace (O Books, 2004) and In the criminal's cabinet: An anthology of poetry and fiction. His poetry has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. He was poetry co-coordinator for ‘The Social Mark' symposium in Philadelphia, 2003, and a recent participant in ‘Poetry & Empire, Post-Invasion Poetics' at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as in ‘Societies of American Poetry, Dissenting Practices' at Georgetown University. Toscano is originally from California (San Diego and San Francisco). He lives in New York City.

Tony Tost is the author of Invisible Bride (LSU Press) and World Jelly (Effing Press). His long-ish poem, "Complex Sleep," will be published as a chapbook in a forthcoming issue of Black Warrior Review. His poems are in recent or forthcoming issues of Hambone, Mandorla, Talisman, Damn the Caesars, The Hat and Verse. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and is working on a Ph.D. in English at Duke. He's also the editor of Fascicle.

Chris Vitiello lives in Durham, NC. His book Nouns Swarm A Verb is out on Xurban Books, and he blogs at http://the_delay.blogspot.com/.

G.C. Waldrep's collections of poems are Goldbeater's Skin (Colorado, 2003); Disclamor (BOA Editions, forthcoming 2007); and a chapbook, “The Batteries” (New Michigan Press, 2006). He has work in recent or forthcoming issues of Kenyon Review, Hambone, Web Conjunctions, and other journals. He is currently a visiting professor of history and poetry at Deep Springs College in California.
            “Arcadiana” is a collaborative sequence built from and around the Arcades Project of Walter Benjamin. More work from this sequence may be found in recent issues of New American Writing, Indiana Review, and Practice.

Mark Wallace is the author of more than ten books and chapbooks of poetry and fiction, including Nothing Happened and Besides I Wasn't There and Sonnets of a Penny-A-Liner. Temporary Worker Rides A Subway won the 2002 Gertrude Stein Poetry Award and was recently published by Green Integer Books. His multi-genre work Haze (Edge Books) was published in 2004. His first novel, Dead Carnival, was also published in 2004, by Avec Books, which published his first collection of fiction shorts, The Big Lie, in 2000. His critical articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, and along with Steven Marks, he edited Telling It Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s (University of Alabama Press) a collection of 26 essays by different writers on the subject of contemporary avant garde poetry and poetics. With Juliana Spahr, Kristin Prevallet, and Pam Rehm he edited A Poetics of Criticism, a collection of poetry essays in non-standard formats published by Leave Books.

Donald Wellman teaches at Daniel Webster College . He has written on the poetics of cultural hybridity (See Assembling Alternatives; Bridges Across Chasms: Towards a Transcultural Future in Caribbean Literature). For many years he edited O.ARS, a series of anthologies exploring postmodern poetic theory and practice. His poetry is available in Fields (Light and Dust, 1995). Recent poetry can be found in Xcp: Streetnotes and in BlazeVOX2K5, both on-line journals. Notebook: Cuaderno de Costa Rica is forthcoming from Ahadada Books.

Michael Winkler writes, "I've been making words into images by connecting-the-dots in the same circle of the Alphabet for over 25 years." His work has been featured in art and literary journals such as Rampike Magazine, and in books such as Imagining Language (Rasula & McCaffery, MIT Press, 1998). Exhibitions have been presented in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Recent exhibitions (2004) include a large-scale wall installation in Poetic Positions at the Kasseler Kunstverein in Germany (see "Selected Works") and a 20 year survey at the Rosenwald Gallery of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center of the University of Pennsylvania (above). Work is included in the permanent collections of various art and literary institutions such as: The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami Beach (extensive collection); the Hans Sohm Archive at the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart; India's National Institute of Design; The King Stephen Museum in Hungary; and the permanent collection of the Library of The Museum of Modern Art, New York..
      His collaboration with the Portland Ballet will be performed in Portland, Maine on March 24th & 25th, 2006. You can visit his website for more information.

Allyssa Wolf is the author of Vaudeville (Seismicity Editions, 2006) and recipient of a 2006 Gertrude Stein Award. New work is forthcoming in Soft Targets and The New College Review, Volume One.

Yang Jian was born in 1967 in An Hui province. He started to write poetry in 1986 and won the first Li-An Liu poetry prize in 1995. His poetry collection Dusk was published in 2003. He is a Buddhist monk living in seclusion.

Ye Hui was born on November 13, 1964 in Gao Chun county, Jiang Su province. He is the author of poetry collection In the Candy Store. He lives in Gao Chun.

Stephanie Young lives and works in Oakland, CA. Her first book, Telling the Future Off, was published by Tougher Disguises Press in 2005. She's the editor of BAY POETICS, forthcoming later in 2006. Find her online: www.stephanieyoung.org/blog.

Zang Di was born in Beijing in April 1964. He obtained his Ph.D. in Literature from Beijing University and is an associate professor at Beijing University. He worked briefly as a journalist in Chinese New Agency. He started writing poetry in 1983. He is the author of Memory of Yan Yuan (Culture and Art Press, 1998), Wind Blows and Grass Wave (Chinese Workers' Publisher, 2000), Fresh Thorns (New World, 2002). He edited several anthologies of poetry and poetics, and unofficial poetry journals, as well as The Selected Work of Rilke in Chinese translation.

Andrea Zanzotto was born in Pieve di Soligo (Treviso), where he currently resides. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including IX Ecloghe (1962), La Beltà (1968), and, most recently, Sovrimpressioni (2001). He has received several major literary prizes, including the Viareggio (1979), the Librex-Montale (1983), and the Feltrinelli (1987). His work in English translation includes The Selected Poetry of Andrea Zanzotto (Princeton University Press, 1975) and Peasants Wake for Fellini's Cassanova and Other Poems (University of Illinois Press, 1997).
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Zhang Er is the author of three collections of poetry in Chinese, Seen, Unseen (QingHai Publishing House of China, 1999), Water Words (New World Poetry Press, 2002) and Because of Mountain (Tonsan, Taipei, 2005). Her poems have also appeared in English translation in several poetry journals. Her chapbooks in translation, Winter Garde, Verses on Bird, The Autumn of Gu Yao, Cross River. Pick Lotus, Carved Water and Sight Progress were published in recent years. Verses on Bird, Zhang Er's selected poems in Chinese and English bilingual edition was published from Zephyr Press in 2004. She worked as a contributing editor for several Chinese poetry journals, such as First Line, Poetry Currents and Oliver Tre. She collaborated with American poets in several translation projects before taking on this anthology project. She teaches at The Evergreen State College in Washington.

Zhao Xia was born in September 1976 in Shanghai. She was the proprietor of an art gallery in Shanghai, and has edited several Internet poetry journals. She is the author of two volumes of poetry collection , Seven Lilies in Barbarism and Paper-Back Spring. She translated work of Paul Celan and Gunter Grass into Chinese. She currently lives in Germany and Nanjing.