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Sidney W. Mintz

Sidney W. Mintz (1922–2015) was an anthropologist and author of many books, including Caribbean Transformations, Sweetness and Power and Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations.

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Anthony Madrid

Anthony Madrid lives in Chicago. His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2013, BODYFenceLana Turner, LIT, and Poetry. His first book is called I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say.

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Isaac M. Mbiti

Isaac M. Mbiti is Assistant Professor of Economics at Southern Methodist University.

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Jenny C. Aker

Jenny C. Aker is Assistant Professor of Economics at Tufts University and Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development.

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Leon Weinmann

Leon Weinmann’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird, Long Poem Magazine, Boxcar Poetry Review, and Antioch Review. “After Visiting Hours” first appeared in the U.K. magazine Mimesis.

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Christine Garren

Christine Garren is a Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist and author of three books of poetry. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, and AGNI Online.

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Ben Lerner

Ben Lerner’s books include The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path.

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Lynn Xu

Lynn Xu’s poems have appeared in 6×6, Best American Poetry 2008, Effing Magazine, Eoagh, Tinfish, Octopus, The Walrus, Zoland Poetry, and elsewhere. She co-edits Canarium Books.

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Charles Stewart III

Charles Stewart III is Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor and Head of Political Science at MIT.

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Peter Balakian

Peter Balakian directs the Creative Writing program at Colgate University and is author of Ozone Journal, which won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

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Jason Tandon

Jason Tandon, a lecturer at Boston University’s Writing Program, is author of Give over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt and Wee Hour Martyrdom.

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Dave Lucas

Dave Lucas, a doctoral student in English at the University of Michigan, is author of the poetry collection Weather.

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John Deming

John Deming, co-editor of Coldfront Magazine, teaches at Baruch College and LIM College.

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Gustaf Sobin

Gustaf Sobin (1935–2005) posthumous books are Collected Poems, Ladder of Shadows, Aura, and translations of René Char’s The Brittle Age and Returning Upland.

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Nicole Walker

Nicole Walker, author of the poetry collection This Noisy Egg, is a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona State University.

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Steve Healey

Steve Healey is the author of two books of poetry, Earthling and 10 Mississippi, both on Coffee House Press.  

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Michael Scharf

Michael Scharf, author of For Kid Rock / Total Freedom and two other collections of poems, was poetry reviews editor at Publishers Weekly from 1997 to 2006.

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Mary Austin Speaker

Mary Austin Speaker is author of Abandoning the Firmament. Her work has appeared in H_NGM_N, Iowa Review, Sentence, and Failbetter.

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Sophie Cabot Black

Sophie Cabot Black is author of The Misunderstanding of Nature and The Descent. Her poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Poetry.

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Dan Pinkerton

Dan Pinkerton’s poems have appeared in Diagram, Crazyhorse, and Fourteen Hills.

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Amanda Nadelberg

Amanda Nadelberg is author of Isa the Truck Named Isadore.

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Caitlin Doyle

Caitlin Doyle’s poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2009, Black Warrior Review, and The Warwick Review.

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G.C. Waldrep

G.C. Waldrep, author of Archicembalo, teaches creative writing at Bucknell University.

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Jason W. Selby

Jason W. Selby’s poems have appeared in North American Review, War, and The Midwest Quarterly.

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