BIO Fatemeh Shams born in 1983 in Mashhad, Iran, won the silver medal in the national Literature Olympiad in 2000. After graduating in sociology from Tehran University, Fatemeh pursued post-graduate studies in London and then in Oxford University where she taught Persian language and literature. She is currently teaching classical Persian literature at the Courtauld Gallery of Art in Somerset…
Marilyn Taylor
BIO Marilyn L. Taylor, former Poet Laureate of Wisconsin (2009 and 2010) and the city of Milwaukee (2004 and 2005) is the author of six poetry collections. Her award-winning poems and essays have appeared in many anthologies and journals, including Poetry, American Scholar, Measure, and Able Muse. Marilyn taught poetry and poetics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,…
Mike Alexander
BIO P & J Poetics, LLC, published Mike Alexander‘s first full-length collection, RETROgrade. His chapbook, We Internet in Different Voices (Modern Metrics), is available through EXOT books. His poems have appeared in River Styx, Borderlands, Bateau, Abridged, Measure, Shit Creek Review, Raintown Review & other journals Stay Dry Before the storm, a flood…
Richard Epstein
BIO . If Epstein told you how long he has been writing poems, you wouldn’t believe him, but they have appeared in a vast, though motley, array of academic quarterlies, little magazines, e-zines, and the like. If the poems here pique your interest, you can find many more at – RHEpoems.blogspot.com . http://rhepoems.blogspot.com, or you…
Catharine Savage Brosman
BIO Catharine Savage Brosman, who lives in Houston, is Professor Emerita of French at Tulane University and Honorary Research Professor at the University of Sheffield. She is the author or editor of nineteen scholarly volumes, two volumes of personal essays, and ten collections of poetry, including Range of Light, devoted to the American west; Under…
Giovanni Pascoli: Translated by Gregory Dowling
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…
Dick Davis
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…
Kim Bridgford
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…
Jack Foley
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…
David Anthony
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…
Jan Carroll
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…
LIVING WITH THE DEAD: A lecture by Joseph Bottum
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…