BIO Giovanni Pascoli was an Italian poet and classical scholar, arguably the greatest Italian poet of the 20th century. BIO Gregory Dowling is Associate Professor of American Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His academic publications include a study of American narrative poetry, a guide to Byron’s Venice and a co-edited anthology of American…
BIO Dick Davis is Professor Emeritus of Persian at Ohio State University, where he was chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from 2002 to 2012. He has written scholarly works on both English and Persian literature, as well as eight volumes of his own poetry, and has been the recipient of numerous…
BIO Kim Bridgford is the current director of Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference. She is the past director of the West Chester University Poetry Center and the West Chester University Poetry Conference, the largest all-poetry writing conference in the United States. As the editor of Mezzo Cammin, she founded The Mezzo Cammin Women…
BIO Jack Foley (born 1940) has published 13 books of poetry, 5 books of criticism, and Visions and Affiliations, a “chronoencyclopedia” of California poetry from 1940 to 2005. His radio show, Cover to Cover, is heard on Berkeley station KPFA every Wednesday at 3; his column, “Foley’s Books,” appears in the online magazine, The Alsop…
BIO Jan Carroll works in publishing and is also a massage therapist. Her work has appeared in Bellowing Ark Press, Cider Press Review, California Quarterly, and Borderlands. . Calling Deep . Deep calls to deep in the noise of the waterfall. Riverforce driven by ploys of the free-for-all gracefully traces the arcspan of free fall…
BIO David Anthony was born in Ffestiniog, North Wales, brought up in Hull and educated at Hull Grammar School before going on to study modern history at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. He worked in the financial services industry for many years. His life has been spent in the near aura of famous poets: Dafydd ap Gwilym, greatest…
BIO Joseph Bottum is a widely published writer, with essays, reviews, poems, and short stories in publications from the Atlantic to the Washington Post. A #1-bestselling author on Amazon, he has been profiled in the New York Times and many other publications, while appearing on television programs from Meet the Press to the PBS NewsHour…
BIO Robert Abbate teaches English composition, creative writing, and philosophy at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College in Concord, North Carolina. His most significant recognition in poetry came in 1982 when Carolyn Kizer selected five poems for the Katey Lehman Creative Writing Awards at Penn State University. His poems have appeared in such journals as Alehouse, Ruah, Sanskrit,…
BIO Neil Connelly directed the MFA Program at McNeese State before returning home to his native Pennsylvania, where he now teaches at Shippensburg University and lives with his wife, their two boys, and a white dog named Muffin. His stories have appeared in Southern Indiana Review, Southeast Review, Grist, and Rivercity, among others. He is…
BIO Wendy Chin-Tanner is the author of Turn (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014) and co-author of American Terrorist (A Wave Blue World). Her poetry has been nominated for the Best of the Net Prize and the Pushcart Prize, and has been featured or is forthcoming at a variety of venues including The Rumpus, Vinyl Poetry, Denver…
BIO Tami Haaland is the author of two books of poetry: When We Wake in the Night and Breath in Every Room. Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies and have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily, and American Life in Poetry. Haaland teaches creative writing and chairs the department of English,…
BIO Claudia Gary is author of Humor Me (David Robert Books, 2006) and several chapbooks. A 2014 finalist for the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award and a 2013 semifinalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, she writes, edits, sings, and composes (tonally) in the Washington D.C. area. Her poems appear in anthologies such as Forgetting Home…
