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SUMMER

Judith Barrington is the author of three poetry collections, a prizewinning memoir, and a text on writing literary memoir. The poetry books are: Horses and the Human Soul, History and Geography, and Trying to be an Honest Woman. She has also recorded a CD of selected poems titled Harvest.
Anita Gevaudan Byerly is a Fellow of the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project, through which she taught at the Young Writer’s Institute at the University of Pittsburgh, and served on the editorial staff of Riverspeak.  She is also a member of the Squirrel Hill Poetry Workshop, & the Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania Poetry Societies.
David Barnes became an active full-time writer poet in 1996 and has been an active Internet poet, publishing around Australia & at many online poetry venues in America, England, and France.
Sukrita Paul Kumar was born and brought up in Kenya and at present she lives in Delhi, writing poetry, researching and publishing on Indian literature and teaching “world literature”. Her positions include Unesco &  invited poet in residence at Hong Kong Baptist University. She has published five collections of poems in English: Rowing Together, Without Margins, Oscillations, Apurna, and Folds of Silence.

SPRING

Alba Cruz-Hacker straddles borders.   She was awarded the 2007 UCR Poet's Laureate, the 2007 Tomas Rivera Endowment Poetry Selection, and has been previously nominated for a Pushcart Prize
Dimitris P. Kraniotis is an award-winning Greek poet and the author of 4 poetry books: "Traces"  1985, "Clay Faces" 1992 , "Fictitious Line"  2005 and "Dunes"  2007.
Elizabeth Kirschner, poet, lyricist, has published three volumes of poetry all with Carnegie-Mellon University. She has two books forthcoming. "My Life as a Doll" will be released by Autumn House Press in July ’08 and "Surrender to Light" will appear in August ’09 (Cherry Grove Editions).
Fady Joudah's first book, The Earth in the Attic has received the Yale Series award from Judge Louise Gluck. His poetry and translation have appeared in The New Yorker, POETRY, the Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, The Nation, among others and also in several anthologies. His translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s most recent poetry is collected in The Butterfly’s Burden from Copper Canyon Press.

Joan Gelfand  was the recipient of the Chaffin Fiction Award for 2005. Her letters, articles, reviews and poetry have appeared in numerous national magazines including The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair and Poets & Writers.
Pia Taavila teaches literature and creative writing at Gallaudet University. The GU Press will publish a collection of 128 poems (spanning thirty years' work) this spring entitled Moon on the Meadow.

Dorianne Laux  is the author of Facts About the Moon (W. W. Norton 2005), Smoke (2000), What We Carry (1994), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Awake (1990), which was nominated for the San Francisco Bay Area Book Critics Award for Poetry.

Keith Althaus Keith Althaus is the author of Rival Heavens (1993, Provincetown Arts Press). His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, and numerous other magazines and journals.

Mahmoud Darwish a Palestinian, is one of the most admired and important Arab poets today. Over forty years of writing more than thirty books of prose and poems, he has influenced and innovated modern poetic forms. He has received international recognition as a French Knight of Belle Arts and Letters and in 2002, he was awarded the Lannan Cultural Freedom prize. In 2005, he received the prestigious Prins Claus award for poetic achievement from Holland, and in 2007 he received the Golden Wreath award of Macedonia.

Anne Cammon A writer of poetry, fiction, essays and reviews, Anne has been a featured performer at Bowery Poetry Club, KGB Bar, J.R. Gallery, Collective: Unconscious and more.  She curates a monthly literary edition of the radio show Art Waves on WKCR FM New York,

Lucy Lang Day's poetry collections are The Book of Answers (Finishing Line Press), Infinities (Cedar Hill Publications, 2002), Greatest Hits, 1975-2000 (Pudding House Publications, 2001), Wild One (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2000), Fire in the Garden (Mother's Hen, 1997) and Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope (Berkeley Poets' Workshop and Press, 1982), which was selected by Robert Pinsky, David Littlejohn, and Michael Rubin for the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in Literature.