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Arial;font-weight:bold'>New Century Poetics: a Poetry Colloquium<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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bold'> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">New Jersey</st1:place></st1:State> (directions and contact info at
the bottom of this message)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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normal'><b><font size=4 face=Cambria><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Monday October 19, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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.25in;line-height:normal'><font size=2 face=Cambria><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>8:00 pm - 9:00 pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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.25in;line-height:normal'><font size=1 face=Cambria><span style='font-size:
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.25in;line-height:normal'><b><font size=3 face=Cambria><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Reading by Mark Doty </span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Cambria><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>- Little
Theater<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:normal'><font size=2 face=Cambria><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>with an interview by Jared Harel<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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19.55pt;line-height:normal'><font size=2 face=Cambria><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>9:00 pm - 10:00 pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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19.55pt;line-height:normal'><font size=2 face=Cambria><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Cambria'>Reception and book signing - Seay Front Parlours</span></font><font
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normal'><b><font size=4 face=Cambria><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
Cambria;font-weight:bold'>Tuesday October 20, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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normal'><font size=2 face=Cambria><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Cambria'>9:30 am - 7:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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normal'><font size=1 face=Cambria><span style='font-size:2.0pt;font-family:
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normal'><font size=2 face=Cambria><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Cambria'>Workshops and panels scheduled throughout the day.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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.25in;line-height:normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>9:00 am - 9:20 am Sign in at the Seay Building </span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:5.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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.25in;line-height:normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-weight:bold'>9:30 am - 11:30 am</span></font></b> Workshops and
Panels: <font size=1><span style='font-size:5.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
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size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;
font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Workshops </span></font></i></b><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>by reservation only<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:5.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;
font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>Using Man-Made Things as Metaphors -</span></font></b> Rotunda Rooms<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>with Robert Carnevale, poet and poetics instructor </span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:5.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:5.0pt;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>Blues Poetics: From Lyrics to Verse</span></font></b><font size=2><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font>– Seay Front Parlours<font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>with Jared Harel, poet and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Centenary</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> poetry instructor<i><span
style='font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></p>
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face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><font size=1
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:5.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:16.75pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><i><font
size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;
font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'> Panels</span></font></i></b><b><i><font
size=1><span style='font-size:5.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:
0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.3in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;
line-height:normal'><i><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:5.0pt;
font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>The Art of Poetry & Poetry of Art: Ekphrasis in the Contemporary Poem
- </span></font></b>Ferry 12<b><span style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><st1:PersonName
w:st="on"><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Burt
Kimmelman</span></font></st1:PersonName>, NJIT, poet and scholar <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><font size=2
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Basil King, poet and artist <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><font size=2
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Corinne Robins, Pratt Institute,
poet and art historian <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><font size=2
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Michael Heller, poet and writer<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><font size=2
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Mark Lamoureux, CUNY, poet and
publisher of Cy Gist Press <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><font size=2
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Therese Halscheid, poet and writer </span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:5.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><font size=1
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:5.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>Resources and Publication</span></font></b> <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>Options </span></b>– Ferry Recital Hall<b><span style='font-weight:
bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>Peter Murphy, local poetry organizer and poet <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>Melissa Hotchkiss, co-editor of <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address
w:st="on"><i><span style='font-style:italic'>Barrow Street</span></i></st1:address></st1:Street>,
teacher, poet<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>Suzanne Parker, Brookdale CC, poet<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>Ken Ronkowitz, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Passaic</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">CC</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>,
poet and online publisher <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><font size=2
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Mark Tursi, editor of <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Double Room</span></i>, publisher of Apostrophe Books<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><font size=2
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><font size=1
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:5.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:11.05pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:9.0pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>11:45 am -
1:00 pm - Seay Front Parlours <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:19.55pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-8.5pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>Round Table with </span></font></b><b><font size=3><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Mark Doty</span></font></b>:
<b><font color=black><span style='color:black;font-weight:bold'>Poetry's Role
in Contemporary Culture</span></font></b><font size=2 color=black><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> Moderated by Mary Newell, Director of
Writing at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Centenary</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:5.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:11.05pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:9.0pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:11.05pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:9.0pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>1:00 pm - 2:30
pm Lunch on your own </span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:5.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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0in;margin-left:20.05pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><font
size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'>2:30 pm -
4:30 pm</span></font></b> Workshops and Panels:<font size=1><span
style='font-size:5.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><i><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:5.0pt;font-style:
italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.3in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><i><font
size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;
font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Workshops </span></font></i></b><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>by reservation only<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.3in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><i><font
size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:5.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;
font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>Practicing Poetry</span></font></b> - Rotunda Rooms<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:20.05pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><font size=2
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>with Sally Dawidoff, NY poet and
teacher.<i><span style='font-style:italic'> </span></i></span></font><i><font
size=1><span style='font-size:5.0pt;font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:5.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>How to Read a Poem</span></font></b> - President's Dining Room<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>with Suzanne
Parker, Brookdale CC, poet.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><i><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:bold;font-style:
italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.3in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><i><font
size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;
font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Panels</span></font></i></b><b><i><font
size=1><span style='font-size:5.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><i><font size=1 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:5.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:bold;font-style:
italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>Poetics of Place:<font color="#993300"><span style='color:#993300'> </span></font><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">New Jersey</st1:State></st1:place>, the West,
and Other Habitats of the Mind </span></font></b>- Seay Front Parlours<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:20.05pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><font size=2
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Angela Elliott, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Centenary</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
Professor and Poet-in-Residence<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:20.05pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><font size=2
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Betsy Andrews, poet<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:20.05pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><font size=2
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Marcella Durand, poet <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:20.05pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><font size=2
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Adele Kenny, poet<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:20.05pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><font size=2
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Madeline Tiger, poet<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:20.05pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><font size=2
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>BJ Ward, poet, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Warren</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">CC</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> faculty</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:5.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 color="#ff6600" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:5.0pt;
color:#FF6600'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>Experimenting with Forms - </span></font></b>Ferry 12<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:29.05pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Melissa
Hotchkiss, “Form into Process”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:29.05pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Lorna Blake<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:29.05pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Kristin Prevallet,
“We Sit Like Hot Stones: The Performance of Mourning”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:29.05pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Laura Hinton, “Mourning
and Multi-Media Poetics” <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:29.05pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Mark Tursi, prose
poetry<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Tiphanie
Yanique, prose poetry; performance<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:5.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>Poetry and Translation:</span></font></b> <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>Bridging the Discontinuities</span></b> - Ferry Recital Hall<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Edward Foster,
<font color=black><span style='color:black'>editor of<em><i><font face=Calibri><span
style='font-family:Calibri'> Talisman, </span></font></i></em><em><i><font
face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri;font-style:normal'>poet,
essayist, Stevens Institute</span></font></i></em></span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Carlos
Hernandez Peña, bi-lingual writer, editor<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Ravi Shankar,
poet, Assoc. Professor, editor of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Drunkenboat.com</span></i>
and a Norton anthology of Asian and Middle Eastern poetry <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><font size=2
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Paul Sohar, poet, translator of
Hungarian poetry <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Mark Weiss,
poet, translator, and editor</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:
5.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:5.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:5.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>5 pm - 6 pm Open
discussion with </span></font><font size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-variant:small-caps'>Mark Doty</span></font> - Seay Front Parlours <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:5.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><font size=2
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>6:30 pm <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Readings</st1:City></st1:place> by participant poets - Seay Front
Parlours<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><font size=2
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><font size=2
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><font size=3 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:bold'>About the
Presenters<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:5.0pt;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:
small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Betsy Andrews</span></font></b><font size=1><span
style='font-size:9.0pt'> is the author of the book-length poem <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on"><i><span style='font-style:italic'>New Jersey</span></i></st1:State></st1:place><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>,</span></i> as well as <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>She-Devil</span></i> and<i><span style='font-style:italic'> In Trouble.</span></i>
Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications ranging from <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>PRACTICE</span></i> to the Yemeni newspaper <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Culture. </span></i>She was also awarded a 2007 New
York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.</span></font><font size=1><span
style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:
small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Robert Carnevale’s</span></font></b><font
size=1><span style='font-size:9.0pt'> poems have appeared in journals and
anthologies<i><span style='font-style:italic'> including <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Paris</st1:City></st1:place> Review </span></i>and<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> the New Yorker. </span></i>He served as Assistant
Coordinator of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Poetry Program. He and Carol
Ueland received a National Endowment for the Arts Literary Translation
Fellowship.<i><span style='font-style:italic'> </span></i>He currently teaches
writing and literature at <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Drew</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceName> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Kean</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:
small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Sally Dawidoff’s</span></font></b><font
size=1><span style='font-size:9.0pt'> poems have appeared in diverse
publications, most recently <em><i><font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:
Calibri'>River Styx</span></font></i></em> and the anthology <em><i><font
face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>Best New Poets 2009</span></font></i></em>.
She has been an NEA fellow and this year was an Artist in Residence at <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Headlands</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. She teaches poetry workshops in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">New York</st1:State></st1:place>.</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:
small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Marcella Durand’s</span></font></b><font
size=1><span style='font-size:9.0pt'> recent books are <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Traffic & Weather, AREA, </span></i>and<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> The Anatomy of Oil</span></i>. Her poems and essays have
appeared in <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Conjunctions, The Canary, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Denver</st1:City></st1:place> Quarterly, NYFA
Current</span></i>, and other journals. She has written and presented on the
intersections of poetry with ecology and astronomy, and is the 2009 Poetry
Artist Fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts. </span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><i><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:3.0pt;font-style:
italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:
small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Angela Elliot</span></font></b><font size=1><span
style='font-size:9.0pt'>, Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at
Centenary, is an internationally recognized Pound scholar who has been
published in books and journals in both the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>
and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.K.</st1:country-region></st1:place>
She has presented papers in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">England</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region>, as well as across the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place>. As a poet, she
publishes and gives readings.</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:
3.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 color="#ff6600" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:3.0pt;
color:#FF6600'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:
small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Edward Foster</span></font></b><font size=1><span
style='font-size:9.0pt'> is a widely published critic, essayist, editor, and
poet. He is the founding editor of <em><i><font face=Calibri><span
style='font-family:Calibri'>Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and
Poetics </span></font></i></em><em><i><font face=Calibri><span
style='font-family:Calibri;font-style:normal'>and</span></font></i></em> Talisman
House, Publishers, and co-editor of <em><i><font face=Calibri><span
style='font-family:Calibri'>Contemporary Turkish Studies</span></font></i></em>.
He has been awarded by institutions including NJ Historical Commission, NJ
State Council on the Arts, the Fulbright Commission, NEA, and NEH. Foster is a
Professor of History and Associate Dean for Administration at the Stevens
Institute of Technology. His latest book of poetry, </span></font><em><i><font
size=1 color=black face=Calibri><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
color:black'>The Beginning of Sorrows</span></font></i></em><font size=1
color=black><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>, is due out in October. </span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 color="#ff6600" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:3.0pt;
color:#FF6600'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 color=black face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-variant:small-caps;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Therese Halscheid</span></font></b><font
size=1 color=black><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'> is the author of
three poetry collections, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Powertalk</span></i>,
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Without Home</span></i>, and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Uncommon Geography</span></i>, which won a 2007
Finalist Award for the Paterson Poetry Book Prize. She received a Greatest Hits
Award from Pudding House and a 2003 Fellowship for Poetry from the NJ State
Council of the Arts. She </span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:
9.0pt'>a visiting writer in schools through NJ State Council on the Arts. </span></font><font
size=1 color=black><span style='font-size:3.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 color=black face=Calibri><span style='font-size:3.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 color=black face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-variant:small-caps;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Jared Harel</span></font></b><b><span
style='font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:bold'>’s</span></b><font
size=1><span style='font-size:9.0pt'> poems have been published or are
forthcoming in such literary journals as the <i><span style='font-style:italic'>New
York Quarterly</span></i>, <span class=yshortcuts><i><span style='font-style:
italic'>California</span></i></span><i><span style='font-style:italic'>
Quarterly</span></i>, <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><span
class=yshortcuts><i><span style='font-style:italic'>Barrow Street</span></i></span></st1:address></st1:Street>,
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Notre Dame</span></i> <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Review, The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Portland</st1:City></st1:place>
Review, </span></i>and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Rattle</span></i>. He
was recently awarded First Runner-up in the 2009 BOA Editions “A. Poulin
Jr. Book Prize.” A graduate of Cornell’s MFA program, he currently
lives in <st1:City w:st="on">Astoria</st1:City>, Queens and teaches creative
writing and composition at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Centenary</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:5.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:
small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Michael Heller</span></font></b><font size=1><span
style='font-size:9.0pt'> has published eight volumes of poetry, most recently <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Eschaton</span></i>. His critical work includes a
collection of essays on George Oppen and a mixed-genre meditation on the work
of the painter Max Beckmann. His poetry and criticism have appeared in numerous
magazines and anthologies. His many honors include the Alice Fay Di Castagnola
Prize of the Poetry Society of America, a New York Foundation on the Arts
Fellowship and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the
Fund for Poetry.</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><br>
</span></font><b><span style='font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Laura
Hinton</span></b><font size=1><span style='font-size:9.0pt'> is the author of a
poetry book, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Sisyphus My Love (To Record a
Dream in a Bathtub) </span></i>and a critical book, <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from </span></i>Clarissa<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> to </span></i>Rescue 911. She is also the co-editor
of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>We Who Love to Be Astonished:
Experimental Women’s Writing and Performance Poetics</span></i>; and
publishes critical essays, poet interviews, and reviews<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>.</span></i> A Professor of English at the City
College of New York, she coordinates the InterRUPTions reading series and edits
a chapbook series under the aegis of Mermaid Tenement Press. </span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><i><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:3.0pt;font-style:
italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:
small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Melissa Hotchkiss’s</span></font></b><font
size=1><span style='font-size:9.0pt'> first book of poems, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Storm Damage,</span></i> was published by Tupelo
Press in 2002. Her poems and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous
publications such as <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The American Poetry
Review</span></i>, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Free Inquiry</span></i>, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>LIT</span></i>, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>New
Virginia Review</span></i> and the anthology <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Poets
for Palestine</span></i>. Melissa is a co-editor of Barrow Street Press and has
taught at various institutions including <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">New York</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>, <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Centenary</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType>, and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Rhode Island</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:
small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Adele Kenny</span></font></b><font size=1><span
style='font-size:9.0pt'> is the author of 23 books of poetry & nonfiction.
Her poems, reviews and articles have appeared in several books and anthologies.
She is the recipient of various awards, including poetry fellowships from the
New Jersey State Arts Council. A former professor of creative writing in the <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">New Rochelle</st1:PlaceName>’s
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Graduate</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, she is currently founding
director of the Carriage House Poetry Series and poetry editor of <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Tiferet</span></i>.</span></font><font size=1><span
style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><a name="BM_1_"></a><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Burt
Kimmelman</span></font></b><font size=1><span style='font-size:9.0pt'> has
published five collections of poetry – <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Musaics</span></i>,
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>First Lif</span></i>, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The Pond at Cape May Point</span></i>, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Somehow</span></i>, and <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>There Are Word</span></i>; his volume of poems titled <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>As If Free </span></i>is forthcoming in 2009. For
over a decade he was Senior Editor of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Poetry
New York: A Journal of Poetry and Translation</span></i>. He is a professor of
English at New Jersey Institute of Technology and the author of two book-length
literary studies: <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The "Winter
Mind": William Bronk and American Letters</span></i> and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages:
The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona</span></i>, as well as scores of
essays on medieval, modern, and contemporary poetry.</span></font><font size=1><span
style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:
small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Basil King</span></font></b><font size=1><span
style='font-size:9.0pt'> is a painter/poet, born in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">England</st1:country-region></st1:place> before World War II. He
attended <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Black</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Mountain</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType> as a teenager and completed
apprenticeship as an abstract expressionist in <st1:City w:st="on">San
Francisco</st1:City> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">New York</st1:State></st1:place>.
For the past three decades he has taken his art “from the abstract to the
figure, from the figure to the abstract.” His books include <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Mirage: a poem in 22 sections, Warp Spasm, Identity,
77 Beasts/Basil King’s Beastiary, Talisman#36/37, In the Field Where
Daffodils Grow, Short Stories</span></i><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 color=navy face=Calibri><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;line-height:normal'><b><font size=2 color=black face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Mark
Lamoureux</span></font></b><font size=1><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>‘s
first full-length collection, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Astrometry
Orgonon</span></i> was published by BlazeVOX books in 2008. In addition to
being the author of 5 chapbooks, his work has been published in <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Fence</span></i>, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Jubilat</span></i>,
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Denver Quarterly</span></i>, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Conduit</span></i>, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Lungfull!</span></i>,
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Carve Poems</span></i>, and many others. In
2006 he started Cy Gist Press, a micropress focusing on ekphrastic poetry. He
teaches composition in the CUNY system.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;line-height:normal'><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:
3.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;line-height:normal'><b><font size=2 color=black face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Suzanne
Parker</span></font></b><font size=1 color=black><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
color:black'>’s poetry has appeared in numerous journals including
Rattapallax, Cider Press Review, and others. She has won a number of awards
and been a finalist and semi-finalist for four national poetry book awards.
Her creative non-fiction is published by the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Wisconsin
Press</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> in the travel anthology Something to
Declare. Suzanne co-directs the creative writing program at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Brookdale</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Community College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.</span></font><font
size=1 color=black><span style='font-size:3.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:
small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Peter E. Murphy</span></font></b><font size=1><span
style='font-size:9.0pt'> is the author of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Stubborn
Child</span></i> and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Thorough &
Efficient,</span></i> both from Jane Street Press. Recipient of a 2009 Poetry
Fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts, he teaches at <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Richard</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Stockton</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType>, directs the annual Winter
Poetry & Prose Getaway in Cape May, Live Free & Write in <st1:State
w:st="on">New Hampshire</st1:State>, Vision, Valley & Revelation in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Wales</st1:country-region></st1:place>
and other programs for poets, writers and teachers.</span></font><font size=1><span
style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:
small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Mary Newell</span></font></b><font size=1><span
style='font-size:9.0pt'> is the Director of Writing and an Assistant Professor
of literature and writing at Centenary College of New Jersey. She has taught
poetics, poetry writing, and creative non-fiction at <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Fordham</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Centenary</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.
In addition to a few poetry publications, she has written and presented on contemporary
poetics, literature and the environment, and cognitive approaches to
literature. </span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><font size=1
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;line-height:normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Carlos
Hernandez Pena</span></font></b><font size=1><span style='font-size:9.0pt'> was
a co-editor of the <i><span style='font-style:italic'>US1 Worksheets</span></i>
magazine<i><span style='font-style:italic'> </span></i>and from 2005 to 2008
organized <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Voices</span></i> at the Princeton
Public Library, a bilingual program of poetry from around the world. The title
poem of his first book, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Moonmilk and Other
Poem, </span></i>was nominated for a Pushcart prize. A native of <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Mexico</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
he writes prose in his mother tongue and is currently at work on a collection
of short stories. </span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;line-height:normal'><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:
3.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><span class=apple-style-span><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Kristin Prevallet’s</span></font></b></span><span
class=apple-style-span><font size=1><span style='font-size:9.0pt'> most recent
book is a lyric essay called </span></font></span><em><i><font size=1
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>I, Afterlife:
Essay in Mourning Time</span></font></i></em><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>. Her previous collections are </span></font></span><em><i><font
size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Scratch
Sides: Poetry</span></font></i></em><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1><span
style='font-size:9.0pt'>, </span></font></span><em><i><font size=1
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Documentation
and Image-text Projects</span></font></i></em><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>, </span></font></span><em><i><font
size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Perturbation</span></font></i></em><span
class=apple-style-span><font size=1><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>, </span></font></span><em><i><font
size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>My Sister</span></font></i></em><span
class=apple-style-span><font size=1><span style='font-size:9.0pt'> and </span></font></span><em><i><font
size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Shadow
Evidence Intelligence</span></font></i></em><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=1><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>. Her collaboration with the musician
Esfand Poumand is featured on Bowery Poetry Club Records Live! She received a
2007 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in poetry.</span></font></span><font
size=1><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:
small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Corinne Robins</span></font></b><font size=1><span
style='font-size:9.0pt'> is an art critic, poet, and art historian. She is the
author of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Pluralist Era: American Art
1968-81</span></i> and of five previous poetry collections, most recently <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Facing It Again: New and Selected Poems</span></i>.
She teaches art criticism at Pratt Institute and is a professor emeritus at the
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Visual Arts</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>. She runs the Poets For
Choice reading series at Ceres Gallery NYC. </span></font><i><font size=1><span
style='font-size:3.0pt;font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:
bold'>Ken Ronkowitz</span></font></b><font size=1 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> is the owner/editor of
poetsonline.org, a monthly online poetry magazine and web site for poets. His
own work has been published in magazines including English Journal, Beloit
Poetry Journal, Roadmap, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Prague</st1:City></st1:place>
and the anthology, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Paradelle</span></i>.
He is currently the Director of Writing at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Passaic</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Community College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> and an
adjunct professor at NJIT.</span></font><font size=1 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:3.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:
small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Ravi Shankar</span></font></b><font size=1><span
style='font-size:9.0pt'> is Associate Professor and Poet-in-Residence at <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Central</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Connecticut</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">State</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> and founding
editor of the international online journal of the arts, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Drunken Boat</span></i>. His poetry collection, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Instrumentality</span></i>, was named a finalist for
the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards. He has also published a collaborative
chapbook, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Wanton Textiles</span></i>, with
Reb Livingston, and is the co-editor of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Language
for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the <st1:place w:st="on">Middle
East</st1:place> and Beyond. </span></i></span></font><i><font size=1><span
style='font-size:3.0pt;font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=1 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:3.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:
bold'>Paul Sohar</span></font></b><font size=1 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> has added nine books of
translations, poetry (“Homing Poems,” Iniquity Press 2005) and
prose (“True Tales of a Fictitious Spy,” Synergebooks, 2006) to his
numerous magazine credits (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Chelsea</span></i></st1:City></st1:place><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>, Grain, Kenyon Review, Poem, Rattle, etc.).</span></i>
He collaborated with Michael Sawyer on a musical “G-d Is Something
Gorgeous” as the lyricist (produced in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Scranton</st1:City> <st1:State w:st="on">PA</st1:State></st1:place>,
2004). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:3.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:
bold'>Madeline Tiger</span></font></b><font size=1 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>‘s recent collections of
poetry are <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Water Has No Color, Mary of
Migdal</span></i>, and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>My Father's Harmonica</span></i>.
Recent poems appear in <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Journal of NJ
Poets, Anti-Lawn, </span></i>and the forthcoming anthology, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The XY Files</span></i>. She teaches in the New
Jersey State Council on the Arts Writers-in-the-Schools program and in the
Dodge Foundation poetry programs. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:3.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;
font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;line-height:normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Mark Tursi</span></font></b><font
size=1><span style='font-size:9.0pt'> is the author of <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Shiftless Days</span></i> and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The Impossible Picnic</span></i>. He is one of the
founding editors of the literary journal <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Double
Room</span></i>, as well as Apostrophe Books, an innovative press devoted to
publishing poetry that intersects philosophy and cultural theory. He is an
Assistant Professor of literature and creative writing at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">New Jersey</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">City</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;line-height:normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Bj Ward</span></font></b><font
size=1><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>‘s books include <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Gravedigger’s Birthday </span></i>and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Landing in New Jersey with Soft Hands</span></i>,
both published by North Atlantic Books. His work has been featured on National
Public Radio, New Jersey Network, and the web site, <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Poetry Daily</span></i>, as well as in publications such as <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Poetry, TriQuarterly</span></i>, and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The Literary Review.</span></i> He has been awarded a
Pushcart Prize and two Distinguished Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey
State Council on the Arts. He teaches at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Warren</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Community College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:
small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Mark Weiss</span></font></b><font size=1><span
style='font-size:9.0pt'> has published six books of poetry, most recently <em><i><font
face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>As Landscape</span></font></i></em>.
He edited <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Whole Island: Six Decades of
Cuban Poetry</span></i> and, with Harry Polkinhorn, the bilingual<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> </span></i>Anthology<i><span style='font-style:italic'>
Across the Line</span></i>/<i><span style='font-style:italic'> Al otro lado:
The Poetry of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Baja California</st1:State></st1:place></span></i>.
His translations include <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Stet: Selected
Poems of José Kozer; The San Antonio Notebook</span></i>, by Javier Manríquez;
and Gaspar Orozco’s <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Notes from the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Land</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Z<span style='font-style:normal'>.</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span
style='font-style:normal'> Among his current projects are translations of a
booklength poem by Luis Cortes Bargalló and a collection of the short stories
of Eliseo Diego. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></font></p>
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normal'><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:3.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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normal'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:
small-caps;font-weight:bold'>Tiphanie Yanique</span></font></b><font size=1><span
style='font-size:9.0pt'>‘s story collection "How to Escape from a
Leper Colony" will be published by Graywolf Press in March 2010. Tiphanie
is a fiction writer, poet and essayist. She is the winner of a Pushcart Prize,
the Kore Press Fiction Prize, The Academy of American Poets Prize, a Fulbright
Scholarship in writing and the Boston Review Fiction Prize. She is a professor
of Creative Writing and Caribbean Literature at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Drew</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.
She is from the Virgin Islands and commutes between <st1:City w:st="on">St.
Thomas</st1:City> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Brooklyn</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">New York</st1:State></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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