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Ammiel alcalay
Ammiel Alcalay is a poet, translator, critic and scholar born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1956. His most recent publications include Scrapmetal (2007), a volume of poetry and criticism; A Little History (2007), essays; and from the warring factions (2007), a book-length poem. During the war in the former Yugoslavia, Alcalay was a primary source for providing access in the American media to Bosnian writers....More>
Monica arac de nyeko
Monica Arac de Nyeko is from Uganda and was born in Kampala in 1979. She studied in Makerere (Uganda) and Groningen (Netherlands) Universities for a degree in education and MA in humanitarian assistance respectively. A member of the Uganda Women Writers Association (FEMRITE), Arac de Nyeko has worked in Uganda as a literature and English language teacher in St Mary's College Kisubi (SMACK) and in Rome, Khartoum and currently Nairobi in development...More>
Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka was born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, and is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, music history, and criticism. His work includes the study of African American music, Blues People (1963); the play Dutchman (1964); Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (1979); The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues (1987), a collaboration with his wife, poet Amina Baraka; a collection of essays, The Essence of Reparations (2003); and a collection of short stories, Tales of the Out & the Gone (2006)...More>
Thomas sayers ellis
Thomas Sayers Ellis, a contributing editor to Callaloo and Poets and Writers, teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence. His works include The Maverick Room, The Genuine Negro Hero and Breakfast and Blackfist: Notes for Black Poets. Among his many prizes and honors is a 2005 Mrs. Giles Whiting Writers’ Award
Nuruddin farah
Nuruddin Farah is the author of nine novels, most recently Links. Named the 1998 laureate of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Farah was born in Baidoa, Somalia and now lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
Danny Hoch
Danny Hoch was born in 1970 in Brooklyn, New York. He is an actor, playwright and director who The New York Times called “part sociologist, part moralist, and part super-chameleon, possessed of both sharp observational distance and bone-deep empathy.” His plays Pot Melting (1991), Some People (1994), and Jails, Hospitals, & Hip-Hop (1997), have garnered many awards including two Obie Awards, an NEA Fellowship, and a Tennessee Williams Fellowship...More>
Pierre joris
Poet, translator & essayist, Pierre Joris has
published over 20 books & chapbooks of poetry, among them Poasis:
Selected Poems 1986-1999. His essays include the 2003 volume A
Nomad Poetics; he has published award winning translations of
the work of Paul Celan, and, with Jerome Rothenberg, co-edited Poems
of the Millennium. 
ilya
kaminsky
Ilya
Kaminsky is a poet who writes in English and Russian. He was born in Odessa, former USSR, in 1977, and arrived in the United States in 1993, when his family received asylum from the American government. He is the author of the collection Dancing in Odessa (2004), which was named the Best Poetry Book of 2004 by ForeWord Magazine...More>
Dinaw mengestu
Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1978. In 1980 he immigrated to the United States with his mother and sister, joining his father, who had fled the communist revolution in Ethiopia two years before. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and of Columbia University's MFA program in fiction. He is the recipient of a 2006 fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts...More>
e. ethelbert miller
E. Ethelbert Miller is an activist and poet born in New York City in 1950. Miller is the author of several collections of poems and “arguably the most influential person in Washington's vast and vibrant African American arts community,” according to The Washington Post. His last book, How We Sleep On The Nights We Don’t Make Love (2004), was an Independent Publisher Award Finalist, and his other awards and honors include the Columbia Merit Award, the O.B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize, and the 2007 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award presented by Poets & Writers...More>
laura moriarity
Laura Moriarty was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1952. She has published eleven books of poetry, a short novel, Cunning (2000), and a novel of science fiction, Ultravioleta (2006), described by Publisher’s Weekly as “sweet Borges-like thought experiments meet Philip K. Dick paranoia, with strands of science fiction, romance, pulp noir, fairy tale and the American road novel…this mission is as keenly ambitious as it is successful.” ...More>
carl phillips
Carl Phillips was born in 1959 in Everett, Washington. He is the author of nine books of poems, most recently The Rest of Love (2004), Riding Westward (2006), and Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006 (2007), as well as a translation of Sophocles’ Philoctetes (2003) and a book of prose, Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Art and Life of Poetry (2004). His poems, essays and translations have appeared in journals such as The Nation, The Paris Review, and The Yale Review...More>
elizabeth robinson
Elizabeth Robinson is the author of eight collections of poems and a three-time recipient of the Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative American Poetry. Her most recent work, Under That Silky Roof (2006), explores the interplay of domestic life, focusing on topics such as companionship, its fecundity and its losses. Robinson also ventures into the manifestations of the abstract, what she calls "the brick floor from which the kingdom of God extends or could extend."...More>
cole swensen
Cole Swensen was born in 1955 in Kentfield, California. Her collections of poetry include New Math (1988), which won the National Poetry Series; Noon (1997); Try (1999), which won the Iowa Prize and The San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award; Goest (2004), which was a finalist for the National Book Award; and The Book of a Hundred Hands (2005). Her most recent book is The Glass Age (2007), which looks at Pierre Bonnard’s window paintings in the contexts of the history of glass and the fragility of the contemporary world...More>
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