Wind Lynn is the pen name of Taiwanese poet Nicholas Lin. He has studied traditional Chinese poems since childhood, and began to write Chinese modern style poems 10 years ago. A selection of his short poems was published in Hong Kong in 2004. A graduate of Michigan State University, he has taught Chinese language and […]
Willis Barnstone, born in Lewiston, Maine, and educated at Bowdoin, the Sorbonne, SOAS, Columbia and Yale, taught in Greece at the end of the civil war (1949-51), in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War, and during the Cultural Revolution he went to China where he was later a Fulbright Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University […]
Vikas K. Menon is a poet and playwright whose poems have appeared or are forthcoming in publications such as Lantern Review, burntdistrict, diode, and The Literary Review, among others. His poetry manuscript godfleshwas a finalist for the 2010 Kinereth Gensler Award and semifinalist for the Beatrice Hawley award, both from Alice James Books. His poetry has been featured in Indivisible: An […]
Vievee Francis has had work published in Callaloo, Margie, Crab Orchard Review, and Detroit’s Metro Times among other journals. She is the author of Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State University Press, 2006). A Callaloo Workshop participant, and Cave Canem fellow, she is married to Kundiman fellow Matthew Olzmann.
Victoria Chang’s second collection of poetry, Salvinia Molesta, was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2008 as part of the VQR Poetry Series. Her first book of poems, Circle, won the Crab Orchard Open Competition and was published by Illinois University Press in 2005, and she also edited Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation (Illinois, 2004). She lives in […]
V. Penelope Pelizzon is the author of two poetry collections, Whose Flesh is Flame, Whose Bone is time (Waywiser Press, 2014); and Nostos (Ohio University Press, 2000), which won the Hollis Summers Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. She is also co-author of Tabloid, Inc: Crimes, Newspapers, Narratives (Ohio State University Press, 2010), […]
Tyehimba Jess’s latest book of poetry, Olio (Wave Books, 2016), was a finalist for The 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award and received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His first book, leadbelly (Verse Press, now Wave Books, 2005), is a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. He won the 2001 Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Poetry Award, an […]
Tracy K. Smith is the author of four collections of poetry: Wade in the Water (Graywolf Press, 2018); Life on Mars (Graywolf, 2011), winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Duende (Graywolf, 2007), winner of the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets; and The Body’s Question (Graywolf, 2003), winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Her work […]