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Peter Marcus

has recently had poems published in Boulevard, The Southern Review, and I Go To The Ruined Places, a human rights anthology.  His poems have also appeared in AGNI, The Antioch Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Southwest Review.  He is an assistant professor of social sciences/psychology at Borough of Manhattan Community College/City University of New York.

Dean Kostos

has published in Barrow Street Boulevard, Chelsea, Cimarron Review, The Cincinnati Review, Southwest Review, Western Humanities Review, among others.  A Pushcart Prize nominee, Kostos is the author of Last Supper of the Senses, The Sentence That Ends with a Comma, and Celestial Rust.  He has taught at the Gallatin School, Columbia University, and CUNY.

Tony Hoagland

is the author of several poetry collections, including last year’s Unincorporated Personas in the Late Honda Dynasty; What Narcissism Means to Me, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Donkey Gospel, which received the James Laughlin Award.  Among Hoagland’s honors are the O. B. Hardison Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library; the Jackson Poetry Prize; and the Poetry Foundation’s Mark Twain Award.  He teaches at the University of Houston and Warren Wilson College.