Forrest Gander is the author of Torn Awake (New Directions, 2001), from which “Facing In All Directions” was taken, Science and Steepleflower (1998), Deeds of Utmost Kindness (1994), Lynchburg (1993), and Rush to the Lake (1988). His poetry has won the Whiting Award and two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative American Writing. He is the editor of Mouth to Mouth: Poems by Twelve Contemporary Mexican Women, a bilingual anthology, translator of No Shelter: The Selected Poems of Pura Lopez-Colome, and co-translator of Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Saenz. With his wife, poet C. D. Wright, he edits Lost Roads Publishers and currently directs the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Russian Lee Ann Brown Marilyn Kallet Patrick Bizzaro Hungarian Jack Hirschman Michael Harper Bill Knott R. T. Smith Robert Bly Gearóid Mac Lochlainn Keith Flynn Emmanuel Moses Sally Buckner Jonathan Greene Phebe Davidson Review Emöke Z. B’Racz Newton Smith Kathryn Stripling Byer Al Maginnes Stella Vinitchi Radulescu Jonathan Williams Gaylord Brewer Essay Quincy Troupe Luke Hankins Ron Rash Robert Creeley William Matthews Thomas Rain Crowe Marilyn Hacker Rene Char Patricia Smith Spanish Eugenio Montale Jeffery Beam J. W. Bonner Thomas P. Feeny Dede Wilson Ryan G. Van Cleave Janice Moore Fuller Lyn Lifshin Welsh Simon Perchik