Amy Newlove Schroeder’s book The Sleep Hotel (Oberlin College P) won the Field Prize. A founding editor of Pool, Schroeder has published poetry and prose in The Boston Review, Ploughshares, Colorado Review, Seneca Review, American Poetry Review and Denver Quarterly. Her work appears in both Turkish and English in the Turkish journal Cevrem Edebiyati. She earned her Ph.D. from USC, after which she lived and taught in Istanbul for a year. A Los Angeles native, she currently teaches at the University of La Verne.
Tony Barnstone
Tony Barnstone is The Albert Upton Professor of English at Whittier College and the author of twelve books. His books of poetry include Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki, winner of the John Ciardi Prize in Poetry (BKMK P); The Golem of Los Angeles, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award in Poetry (Red Hen P); Sad Jazz: Sonnets (Sheep Meadow P); and Impure: Poems by Tony Barnstone (UP of Florida). He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and is also a distinguished translator of Chinese poetry and literary prose and an editor of literary textbooks, including The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry (Anchor) and The Art of Writing: Teachings of the Chinese Masters (Shambhala).
Stephanie Brown
Stephanie Brown is the author of two books, Domestic Interior (U of Pittsburgh P) and Allegory of the Supermarket (U of Georgia P). Her poems have appeared in four annual editions of The Best American Poetry (Scribner) and her poetry and essays have been anthologized in American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon), Great American Prose Poems (Scribner), and others. She has been awarded an NEA Fellowship and the Margaret Bridgman Fellowship in Poetry at the Breadloaf Writers' Conference. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she has taught creative writing but has primarily made her living as a librarian and library manager. She is the book review editor for Connotation Press and poetry editor for Zócalo Public Square.
Tom Zoellner
Tom Zoellner’s forthcoming book is A Safeway in Arizona: What the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Tells Us About the Grand Canyon State and Life in America (Viking). He is also the author of Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World, which won the Science Writing Award of the American Institute of Physics, and The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit and Desire. He has worked as a contributing editor for Men’s Health magazine and as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. Tom Zoellner, a creative nonfiction writer and journalist, joins the English Department of Chapman University this year.
FALL 2010 VISITING POETS
Patty Seyburn
Patty Seyburn’s third book of poems, Hilarity, won the Green Rose Prize given by New Issues Press (Western Michigan University, 2009). Her two previous books of poems are Mechanical Cluster (Ohio State University Press, 2002) and Diasporadic (Helicon Nine Editions, 1998) which won the 1997 Marianne Moore Poetry Prize and the American Library Association’s Notable Book Award for 2000. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including The Paris Review, Poetry, New England Review, Field, Slate, Crazyhorse, Cutbank, Quarterly West, Bellingham Review, Boston Review, Cimarron Review, Third Coast, and Western Humanities Review. Seyburn grew up in Detroit. She earned a BS and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern University, an MFA in Poetry from University of California, Irvine, and a Ph.D. in Poetry and Literature from the University of Houston. She is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Long Beach and co-editor of POOL: A Journal of Poetry (www.poolpoetry.com).
Lynne Thompson published two chapbooks—We Arrive By Accumulation and Through A Window—before her first full-length manuscript, Beg No Pardon, won the 2007 Perugia Press First Book Award as well as the 2008 Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Thompson’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the Indiana Review, Crab Orchard Review, Margie, Ploughshares, Sou’Wester, and numerous online e-zines. In 2009 and 2010, Emory University and Scripps College commissioned her to write poems to accompany a dance recital and the installation of Harriet Tubman, respectively. A lawyer by training, Thompson is the Director of Employee & Labor Relations at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Rae Armantrout is this year’s winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in poetry for Versed. A Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry, Armantrout is a native Californian, educated at UC Berkeley, where she studied with Denise Levertov, and San Francisco State University. She was at the center of the first generation of Language Poets, the group in the U.S. most often credited with introducing poetry to postmodernity. Armantrout has published ten books of poems, including Next Life, Up to Speed, and Veil: New and Selected Poems. Her poems are well anthologized: Best American Poetry 2002, 2005, 2007, and 2009; American Hybrid; Poems of the Women's Movement, The Oxford Book of American Poetry, and Postmodern American Poetry, a Norton Anthology. She continues to publish in diverse journals such as The New Yorker, Poetry, Conjunctions, Partisan Review, and the LA Times. In 2000, A Wild Salience, a collection of critical writings on the work of Rae Armantrout, was published. She has directed the New Writing Series at the UCSD since 1989.
Allison Joseph lives, writes and teaches in Carbondale, Illinois, where she directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She also serves as editor and poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review, a national journal of literary works, and director of the Young Writers Workshop, a coed residential creative writing summer workshop for high-school writers. She also serves as moderator of the Creative Writers Opportunities List, an online list- serve that distributes calls for submissions and literary contest information to writers free of charge. She is the author of six books of poems: What Keeps Us Here (winner of the Ampersand Press Women Poets Series Prize and the John C. Zacharis Prize from Ploughshares and Emerson College, 1992), Soul Train (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1997), In Every Seam (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997), Imitation of Life (Carnegie Mellon UP, 2003), and Worldly Pleasures (winner of the Word Press Poetry Prize, 2004), and most recently My Father's Kites (Steel Toe Books, 2010). She is also the author of the chapbook, Voice: Poems (Mayapple Press, 2009). She has received fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Sewanee Writers Conference, and the Illinois Arts Council.
Allison Benis White is the author of Self-Portrait with Crayon, winner of the 2008 Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Competition. Her poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, and Pleiades, among other journals. Her honors include the Indiana Review Poetry Prize, the Bernice Slote Award from Prairie Schooner, and a Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers. She is currently at work on a second manuscript, "Small Porcelain Head," which received the 2008 James D. Phelan Award for a work-in-progress from The San Francisco Foundation. She teaches at the University of California, Irvine.
Karen An-hwei Lee's most recent book is Ardor (Tupelo Press, 2008), and her new collection, Erythropoiesis, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. Her earlier collection In Medias Res (Sarabande, 2004) won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize selected by Heather McHugh and the Norma Farber First Book Award chosen by Cole Swensen. Her chapbook, God's One Hundred Promises, received the Swan Scythe Press Prize awarded by Sandra McPherson. She has held residencies at the MacDowell Colonoy of the Arts and the Millay Arts Colony. She lives and teaches in Southern California.
Kate Greenstreet's second book, The Last 4 Things, is new from Ahsahta Press and includes a DVD containing two short films. Ahsahta published Greenstreet'scase sensitive in 2006. She is also the author of three chapbooks, most recently This is why I hurt you (Lame House Press, 2008). Find her new work in current or forthcoming issues of jubilat, Fence, VOLT, the Denver Quarterly, Court Green, and other journals.
Linh Dinh was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1963, came to the US in 1975, and has also lived in Italy and England. He is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House (2000) and Blood and Soap (2004); four books of poems, All Around What Empties Out (2003), American Tatts (2005), Borderless Bodies (2006) and Jam Alerts (2007); and the novel Love Like Hate, scheduled to be released in 2009 by Seven Stories Press. Blood and Soap was chosen by the Village Voice as one of the best books of 2004. His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, 2004, 2007 and Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, among many other places. Linh Dinh is also the editor of the anthologies Night, Again: ContemporaryFiction from Vietnam (1996) and Three Vietnamese Poets (2001), and translator of Night, Fish and Charlie Parker, the poetry of Phan Nhien Hao (2006). His poems and stories have been translated into Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Arabic, Icelandic and Finnish, and he has been invited to read his works all over the United States and in London, Cambridge, Paris, Berlin and Reykjavik. He has also published widely in Vietnamese.
Poet and visual artist Jen Bervin has published The Desert (Granary Books, 2008), A Non-Breaking Space and Nets (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005 and 2004), and Under What Is Not Under (Potes & Poets Press, 2001). The book Her Gallant Note is forthcoming. Her large-scale, sewn composites of Emily Dickinson's fascicle marks have been internationally exhibited. Bervin is a Contributing Editor for jubilat and lives in Brooklyn. Discover more about Jen Bervin's work at http://www.jenbervin.com/.
Richard Deming is a poet and a theorist who works on the philosophy of literature. His poems have appeared in such places as Sulfur, Field, Indiana Review, and The Nation, as well as Great American Prose Poems:From Poe to the Present. He is the author of Let's Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman), about which Susan Howe has written, "Deming restlessly calculates the split between promised and actual experience. The poems in his impressive new collection balance at an edge of danger syntax can only shadow." With Nancy Kuhl, he edits Phylum Press (http://www.phylumpress.com/). Currently a lecturer at Yale University, he is also the author of Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading (Stanford University Press).
Nancy Kuhl's first full-length collection of poems, The Wife of the Left Hand, was published in 2007 by Shearsman Books. She is the author of The Nocturnal Factory, a chapbook published in 2008 by Ugly Duckling Presse. Another chapbook, Means of Securing Houses &c. from Mischief by Thunder and Lightning, is forthcoming from Propolis Press. She is co-editor of Phylum Press, a small poetry publisher. She is Curator of Poetry of the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the author of two exhibition catalogs: Intimate Circles: American Women in the Arts and Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van Vechten's Portraits of Women. You can find out more about Nancy Kuhl at www.phylumpress.com/nancykuhl.htm.
Amy Newlove Schroeder
Tony Barnstone
Stephanie Brown 
Tom Zoellner 
Patty Seyburn 
Read "On the Writing Biz and the Writing Itself: An interview with Patty Seyburn"
Lynne Thompson 
Rae Armantrout 
Allison Joseph 
Allison Benis White 
Karen An-hwei Lee
Kate Greenstreet
Linh Dinh
Jen Bervin
Richard Deming
Nancy Kuhl