Henry Kearney, IV
Henry Kearney, IV: is from Robersonville, North Carolina. He has an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College.
Philip A. Waterhouse
Philip A. Waterhouse: lives in Sonoma, California. This is his first appearance in The Café Review.
Lucien Stryk
Lucien Stryk: has been a presence in American letters for sixty-five years. His international reputation is based, not only on his own work, but also on his ground-breaking translations of Chinese and Japanese Zen poetry. Influenced by poets as diverse as Walt Whitman, Paul Eluard, and the great haiku master, Basho, Stryk’s work provides a striking example of how poetry can evoke the universal by focusing on the particular. His two edited anthologies, Heartland (1967) and Heartland II (1975), have become important documents in the history of U.S. Midwest poetry. He served on the Northern Illinois University faculty from 1958 until his retirement in 1991, has taught at universities in Japan, and was a Fulbright lecturer both in Japan and in Iran. Stryk has written or edited more than two dozen volumes of poetry, collections, and translations of Chinese and Japanese Zen poetry.
Dan Stryk
Dan Stryk: originally from the “cornlands” west of Chicago, he now lives among the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia, in Bristol. He has published seven collections of poems and prose parables, including The Artist and the Crow (Purdue UP) and Solace of the Aging Mare (The Mid-America Press). Dimming Radiance, a fusion of Far Eastern and Western concepts and writing forms, was released by Wind Publications in fall, 2008. His work continues to appear in such journals as Poetry, Ploughshares, Antioch Review, Shenandoah, Harvard Review, and was anthologized in Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets of Virginia (UVA Press). He has held an NEA Poetry Fellowship, among other writing awards.