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Christian Bök (born Christian Book, August 10, 1966 in Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian experimental poet. He began writing seriously in his early twenties, while earning his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Carleton University in Ottawa. He returned to Toronto in the early 1990s to study for a Ph.D. in English literature at York University, where he encountered a burgeoning literary community that included Steve McCaffery, Christopher Dewdney, and Darren Wershler-Henry. As of 2005 he teaches at the University of Calgary.

Dana Roeser’s second book, In the Truth Room, was the winner of the Samuel French Morse Prize, judged by Rodney Jones, and will be published by Northeastern University Press in October 2008. Her first book of poems, Beautiful Motion, received the Morse Prize (judged by Ellen Bryant Voigt) in 2004 and was published by Northeastern University Press that year. In 2007 she received a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2005, she won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Beautiful Motion and the 2005-2006 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington Fellowship. Ms. Roeser’s poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Iowa Review, Harvard Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Massachusetts Review, Northwest Review, Antioch Review, Southern Review, Shenandoah, Barrow Street, Indiana Review, Notre Dame Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Passages North, Sou’wester, Prairie Schooner, Laurel Review, Pool, Shade, The Literary Review, and other journals, and on Verse Daily and Poetry Daily. She has received fellowships to Yaddo, Ragdale, The Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Le Moulin à Nef (VCCA France). She has given readings of her work at George Washington University, Sweet Briar College, the Indiana Poetry Festival, Chapters Literary Bookstore (Washington, DC), Indiana University South Bend, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Marshall University, the Virginia Festival of the Book, the Young Writers Workshop at the University of Virginia, Butler University, as well as several colleges and universities in the Great Lakes Colleges Association (Denison, Antioch, Wooster, Albion, Kenyon, Hope, Wabash, and Depauw). For several years, she taught creative writing at Butler University. In 2008-2009, Ms. Roeser will be a visiting professor at Purdue University.

Alice Anderson is the author of Human Nature, Poems, awarded both the Elmer Holmes Bobst Prize for Emerging Writers from NYU and the Best First Book Prize from the Great Lakes Colleges Association. Human Nature earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly. Anderson holds (quite gingerly) an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College where, it turns out, they educate rich nubile lesbians and not budding pastry chefs. Her poems appear in journals such as New York Quarterly, New Letters, Agni, and The Plum Review. Poems are featured in the anthologies On The Verge: Emerging Poets and Artists; American Poetry, The Next Generation; and The Why and Later, Poets Speak on Rape. Anderson's classic poem "The Split" will appear in the 20th anniversary edition of The Courage to Heal. She teaches writing at an urban community college. An advocate for victims of incest and domestic violence, Anderson lives and writes in Sacramento, California, having escaped the deep-water bayou hell of post-Katrina Gulf Coast Mississippi. She is the single mother to three light-filled, miraculous children and is remarkably, still standing. And smiling.

Richard Denner was born in 1941 in Santa Clara, California. He attended U.C. Berkeley but dropped out after one semester. He attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965 and was the Poet of the Berkeley Barb. Self-exiled to Alaska, he graduated from U. of A. in Fairbanks. In a wilderness cabin he began printing chapbooks on a hand press with worn fonts of type. Forty years later, there are two hundred titles in his backlists. A turn toward Eastern wisdom prompted him to begin the practice

Born in the Mojave Desert in Barstow, California, Forrest Gander grew up in Virginia and spent significant periods in San Francisco, Dolores Hidalgo (Mexico), and Eureka Springs, Arkansas before moving to Rhode Island. He holds degrees in both English literature and geology. The author of numerous books of poetry, including Eye Against Eye, Torn Awake, and Science & Steepleflower, all from New Directions, Gander also writes novels (As a Friend, forthcoming 2008 from New Directions), essays (A Faithful Existence) and translates. His most recent translations are Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems of Coral Bracho, No Shelter: Selected Poems of Pura Lopez-Colome, and, with Kent Johnson, two books by the Bolivian wunderkind Jaime Saenz: The Night and Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Saenz . Gander's poems appear in many literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad, and have been translated into half a dozen languages. Several books (see Work) in translation are available in Mexico (Zumba el Transcurrir: Poemas Escojidos and Arrancado del Sueno), Chile (Traduciendo a Saenz y Otros Poemas), and the Netherlands (Twelve X 12:00). He has received two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative North American Poetry, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts, and awards from The Howard Foundation and The Whiting Foundation. With poet C.D. Wright and their son, Brecht, Gander lives in Rhode Island. As Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brown University.

Rae Armantrout’s most recent book of poetry, Next Life (Wesleyan, 2007), was chosen as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2007 by The New York Times. Other recent books include Collected Prose (Singing Horse, 2007), Up to Speed (Wesleyan, 2004), The Pretext (Green Integer, 2001), and Veil: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2001). Her poems have been included in anthologies such as Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (1993), American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where

Jeff Weddle teaches and writes in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. His first book,Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of The Outsider and Loujon Press, hasbeenpublished by the University Press of Mississippi in summer 2007. Ifyou'reinterested in little magazines, the Beats, Bukowski, Henry Miller,KennethPatchen or the Big Easy,Jeff hopes you'll grab a copy. He used to writealot of poetry and published a fair amount of it in some smallermagazineswith names like Chiron Review, PlopPlop, Dog River Review, etc.

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Bob Hicok's fifth book of poems, This Clumsy Living, was published by Pitt in 2007 and received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress. He is the author of Insomnia Diary (Pitt, 2004), Animal Soul (Invisible Cities Press, 2001), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Plus Shipping (BOA Editions, 1998), and The Legend of Light (University of Wisconsin Press, 1995), which won the 1995 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry,just to name a few of his accomplishments.