met Shahid when they were both on staff at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in the 1980s.  The first line of Woody’s poem alludes to “Mending Wall,” a poem by another Bread Loaf poet [Robert Frost].  His book, The Lawns of Lobstermen, is available at moonpiepress.com.  He teaches high – school English at Carrabec High in North Anson, Maine and lives with his wife, the artist Donna Asmussen, in nearby Smithfield.

is a professor at the Santa Fe Institute, where he studies theoretical evolutionary biology.  His poems have appeared in the Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Midday Moon, and Moon Reader, among other places.  His book, Transistor Rodeo, won the 2009 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize and was published in 2010 by the University of Utah Press.

has published poetry in Runes, Cream City Review, The Dublin Quarterly, International Poetry Review, Nimrod, and other journals.  Her show, Braided Lives: A Collaboration Between Artists and Poets, was inaugurated by the Taos Institute of Arts and has traveled to San Francisco, Denver, and Berkeley.  She is co – editor of Collecting Life: Poets on Objects Known and Imagined.  She lives in Taos, New Mexico.

has completed a book – length collection of ghazals to be called In Which We See Our Selves: American Ghazals. His two poems entitled “Of Ghazals” are the first and last poems in the collection.  His most recent book is the novella, The Man Who Loved Rilke, March Street Press, 2008.  He lives in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.