is an American poet, writer, and self taught painter who left the U.S. for France in 2005 after becoming disillusioned with American culture and politics.  In the Shade of Arrows: A Memoir, is an experiment in “lean” autobiography, a “life” stripped of the romantic entanglements, but which includes an examination of a severely dysfunctional birth family and the resulting personal trials that shaped his character.  In 1976, he published his first of four books of poems.  His last, A European Education (1986), is a chronicle of his travels, actual and emotional, through the “geography” of the Holocaust.  He has two daughters and a son.  He divides his time between Vermont, where his children live, and Paris.

is a prominent Russian poet, the author of three books of poetry, and in 1981 was awarded the Andrey Bely Prize.

was born and lives in Rockland, Maine where he is Poet Laureate.

teaches creative writing and poetry and humanities in the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga’s interdisciplinary honors program.  He is the author of ten books of poems including Resonance (2010) (Eric Hocher Award), Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (2004) and Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems (2003).  He is also the author of two crucial books, Acts of Mind: Conversations with American Poets (Choice Award) and Dismantling Time in Contemporary Poetry (Agee Award Winner).  He has been named a Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Fellow, Witter – Bynner Fellow, NEA fellow, NEH Fellow.  In 2009 he won the AWP George Garret National Award for Teaching and Arts Advocacy.