a graduate of the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast MFA Creative Writing Program, he helped to found, and currently teaches English and directs plays at, Merriconeag Waldorf High School in New Gloucester, Massachusetts.  He has written two books on teaching drama and literature to teenagers.  His poetry has appeared, or will be forthcoming, in The Northern New England Review, Carpe Articulum, The Friends of Acadia Journal, Infinity Limited, and Western Poetry Quarterly.

has published poems, stories, plays, essays, and translations in magazines such as Poetry  and The Paris Review and in anthologies such as The Ardis Anthology of New American Poetry  and The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov.  Some of his poems are collected in Dim Lake and Where Silkwood Walks.

(1932 – 2004) was the author of many volumes of poetry and criticism.  He also translated widely from French literature, including an acclaimed version of Proust.  In 2006 his complete Opera poetica was published in the Meridiani series of classic Italian authors.  A comprehensive volume of translations from his work, Every Third Thought: Selected Poems 1950  – 2004, will be published by Chelsea Editions.

co – directs the Creative Writing Program at Emporia State University, is managing editor of Flint Hills Review, and writes regularly for Jazz Ambassador Magazine (JAM). His stories and poems have appeared in Nimrod, Event, and elsewhere.  His second book of poetry, Lisa’s Flying Electric Piano, is a 2010 Kansas Notable Book and a Nelson Poetry Book Award winner.