Bios

Mark Blaeuer lives a few miles southwest of Hot Springs, Arkansas. With an MA in anthropology, he worked in the field of archeology, then spent twenty years as an interpretive ranger in the National Park Service. His poems and occasional translations (from Spanish) have appeared in dozens of journals, since the 1970s. Kelsay Books published his collection, Fragments of a Nocturne, in 2014. He is also a baseball historian.

Dan Campion’s poems have appeared previously in Able Muse and in After Hours, Blue Unicorn, Ekphrasis, the Evansville Review, Indefinite Space, Innisfree, Light, Measure, the Midwest Quarterly, the North American Review, Poetry, Rolling Stone, Shenandoah, Think, and others. He is the author of Peter De Vries and Surrealism (Bucknell University Press), coeditor of Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song (Holy Cow!

Ryan Wilson is the editor of Literary Matters and the author of The Stranger World (Measure Press, 2017), winner of the Donald Justice Prize. Recent work has appeared or will appear in Birmingham Poetry Review, Five Points, the Hopkins Review, the New Criterion, the Sewanee Review, the Yale Review, and The Best American Poetry 2018. He teaches at the Catholic University of America, and he lives with his wife north of Baltimore.

Christopher Childers lives in Baltimore, MD, where he continues to work at translating a manuscript of Greek and Latin Lyric Poetry from Archilochus to Martial for Penguin Classics. A recipient of a 2018 Translators’ Fellowship from the NEA, he has published poems, essays, and translations in the Kenyon Review, the Yale Review, the Dark Horse, and elsewhere.

Vincent Yu is an employee at W.W. Norton and a reader at a minuscule press called 7.13 Books. He graduated from Yale University, where he was a staff member of the Yale Literary Magazine. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Adelaide Magazine, the Sierra Nevada Review, Pangyrus, and the Cold Creek Review. He is represented by Natalie Grazian of Martin Literary Management.

Michael Woodson has lived in Houston, Texas, for over forty years. He has a PhD in Shakespeare from the University of Houston. His curiosity inclines to short fiction, critical history, and language theory. His profession is college teaching; in that, he is rewarded with students who care to practice his advice on organizing thought. For fifteen years, he has produced and hosted a radio show, LivingArt, on Houston’s Pacifica Radio Network, KPFT.

Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 BC – 54 BC) was a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic whose work had a profound influence on later Latin poets, including Ovid, Horace, and Virgil. Approximately 116 of Catullus’s often-translated poems have survived.

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.

Arthur Rimbaud (1854 – 1891) was a French poet who wrote some of the most remarkable poetry and prose of the nineteenth century. He prefigured Surrealism and free verse, and was a major figure in Symbolism. Precocious and miserable in provincial France, he ran away to Paris at sixteen, where he read voraciously and lived in alcoholic squalor, sometimes with Paul Verlaine. Widely regarded as a prodigy, he wrote all of his poetry in the space of less than five years. Before age twenty-one, he burned his last manuscripts and is not known to have written other work.