Mark Bibbins was a founding editor of the journal LIT and teaches in The New School’s MFA program. Individual poems have appeared in Boston Review, Colorado Review, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Yale Review and elsewhere, including the anthologies The Best American Poetry 2004 and Great American Prose Poems. Bibbins received a Lambda Literary Award for his collection of poems Sky Lounge (Graywolf, 2003), and was awarded a 2005 Poetry Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. His most recent poetry collection, The Dance of No Hard Feelings (Copper Canyon Press), came out last year.
Mary Jo Bang is the author of six collections of poetry, including The Bride of E: Poems, The Eye Like a Strange Balloon, The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of the Swans, Louise in Love, Apology for Want and Elegy, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named a 2008 New York Times Notable Book. Individual poems have appeared in such journals as The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Volt, Fence, Denver Quarterly, Best American Poetry and elsewhere. Among other honors, she has received a “Discovery”/The Nation award, a Pushcart Prize, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University and a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where she is a Professor of English and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Washington University.
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