Charles Martin’s most recent book of poems, Signs & Wonders, was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 2011. A former Poet in Residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, his next collection, Future Perfect, was published by Hopkins in the spring of 2018.
Barbara Haas’s nonfiction interrogates Russia, the actual Place, a real and tangible country which occupies physical coordinates on the map—and also examines Russia, the archetypal Threat, as conceived by us in the West and nurtured in our fears. She synthesizes history, culture, data, politics and propaganda into high-impact micro-sagas whose goal is to shed light on crucial truths about our Cold War-era frenemy as well as about ourselves—what we prize, what we scorn, what we dream about, what we fear.