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Barbara K. Bodine

Barbara K. Bodine  the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative and lectures at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She was the ambassador to Yemen from 1997 to 2001 and was the coordinator for post-conflict reconstruction for Baghdad and the central region of Iraq in 2003.

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Barry R. Posen

Barry R. Posen is the Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT and is director emeritus of MIT’s Security Studies Program. He is the author of Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy, Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear Risks and The Sources of Military Doctrine.

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Ben Doyle

Ben Doyle is the author of Radio, Radio. He will live in Granville, Ohio, for the next few months.

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Jenny Boully

Jenny Boully is the author of The Body and the forthcoming Book of Beginnings and Endings and [one love affair]. She lives in Brooklyn.

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Hugh Steinberg

Hugh Steinberg teaches at California College of the Arts and is the editor of Freehand, a new journal devoted to handwritten work. His poems have been published in Crowd, Cue, Dirt, Fence, Slope, Swerve, and the Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel.

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Kathy Nilsson

Kathy Nilsson's poems have been published in Ploughshares, Post Road, Volt, and elsewhere. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Shane Book

Shane Book is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. His poems have appeared in 1913, American Letters & Commentary, The Iowa Review, and Volt.

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William Kulik

William Kulik's most recent book of translations from French poetry is The Selected Poems of Robert Desnos.

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Robert Desnos

Robert Desnos was born in Paris in 1900 and died of typhus in 1945 in the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. One of the founders of Surrealism in literature, he gradually broke from the movement to pursue a broader range of expression. He worked in radio and underground publishing and also served in the French Resistance.

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Sandra Lim

Sandra Lim's first book of poems, Loveliest Grotesque, won the 2005 Kore Press First Book Award. She has taught literature and writing at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Iowa. She lives in San Francisco.

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Frank Bidart

Frank Bidart's most recent book is Star Dust, a finalist for the National Book Award.

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Mark Levine

Mark Levine is the author of Debt, Enola Gay, and, most recently, The Wilds. He teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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Mark McMorris

Mark McMorris's most recent books of poetry are The Blaze of the Poui and The Café at Light. He teaches at Georgetown University.

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Anna Rabinowitz

Anna Rabinowitz's most recent book of poetry is The Wanton Sublime. Others include Darkling, which has been adapted into a multimedia theater work by American Opera Projects, and At the Site of Inside Out.

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Sarah Rosenthal

Sarah Rosenthal's poetry has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Fence, 26, and Poetry Salzburg Review. Her interviews with Bay Area writers have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Jacket, and Rain Taxi.

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Michelle Noteboom

Michelle Noteboom's first book, Edging, received the Heartland Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Fence, Verse, Sentence, and The Columbia Poetry Review.

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Barbara K. Fischer

Barbara K. Fischer is a poet and critic. She was a poetry editor at Boston Review between 2012 and 2018.

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James Wagner

James Wagner has published poetry in BlazeVOX, Typo Magazine, and Parakeet. He is the author of Trilce.

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Robert Hahn

Robert Hahn's most recent poetry collections are All Clear and No Messages. His essays and translations of Italian poetry have recently appreared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, and The Literary Review.

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Ernest Larsen

Ernest Larsen is a video maker, novelist, and media critic who lives in New York City. His work has appeared in Art in America, The Independent, The Nation, and The Village Voice.

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Kurt Brown

Kurt Brown is the founding director of the Aspen Writer's Conference, now in its 30th year, and the author of Return of the Prodigals, More Things in Heaven and Earth, and Fables of the Ark. His fourth poetry collection, Future Ship, will be published later this year.

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James Hynes

James Hynes lives in Austin, Texas. His most recent novel is Kings of Infinite Space.

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Emily Barton

Emily Barton is the author of two novels, Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron. She teaches at Eugene Lang College and lives in Brooklyn.

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Deb Olin Unferth

Deb Olin Unferth's work has appeared in Harper's, Conjunctions, McSweeney's, NOON, StoryQuarterly, and the Pushcart Prize anthologies. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

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