Contributors' Notes

Joshua Adams works on the editorial staff of Chicago Review.

Affonso Ávila was born in Belo Horizonte MG in 1928. He served as an Cabinet Undersecretary in the government of Governor Juscelino Kubitschek. He later served in the presidential campaign. His first book O Açude. Sonetos da Descoberta was published in 1953. He won the Jabuti Prize in 1996.

Josely Vianna Baptista is the author of several poetry books and one children’s book, which received the VI Prémio Internacional del Libro Ilustrado Infantil y Juvenil del Gobierno de México. She is one of Brazil’s most widely read poets.

Kacpar Bartczak is an assistant professor of American Literature at the University of Lodz, Poland. In 2000-2001 he was a Fulbright scholar at Stanford University. His publications include articles on Polish and American poetry and literary theory. In 2006 Peter Lang published his book on John Ashbery.He also has two books of poetry published in Polish.

Raymond L. Bianchi is the publisher of Cracked Slab Books and poet-editor of Chicagopostmodernpoetry.com. For most of the 1990’s he lived in Bolivia and Brazil. Ray has published two collections of poetry, Circular Descent from Blaze Vox Press and American Master from Moria Books. His work has also appeared in many journals.

With ten books of poetry and many translations, Régis Bonvicino is one of Brazil’s most accomplished poets. A great editor and public intellectual, he has been called one of Brazil’s greatest poetic innovators.

Beth Bretl teaches writing and literature at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in How?, Free Verse, North American Review and American Book Review.

Paulo Henriques Britto was born in Rio de Janiero. He is a poet, translator and professor. He debuted as a poet in 1982 with the ground-breaking books, Liturgia da Materia and Minima Lirica. His book Troval Claro won the Alphonsus de Guimaraes prize. He has also won the Portugal Telecom Prize.

Wilson Bueno is a poet from Curitiba. He has published multiple collections and was a book editor for many Brazilian newspapers, including O Estado de São Paulo, Brazil’s leading daily.

Steve Butterman teaches Portuguese and Brazilian Literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and Queer Studies in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Miami. He is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship and a winner of the Brazilian International Press Award.

Joel Calahan works on the editorial staff of Chicago Review.

Augusto de Campos was born in 1951 in São Paulo and is the most important of Brazil’s living Concrete Poets. His work has been published in over 40 nations and 35 languages.

Journalist and writer Fabrico Carpinejar was born in Caxias do Sul and lived for much of his life in São Leopoldo. He is the author of As Solas do Sol (Escrituras Editora, 2001) which won the National CeciliaMeireles Prize in 2001, and Biografia de uma árvore (Escrituras Editora, 2005).

Odile Cisneros is a critic, writer and translator born in Mexico. Her translations and essays have been published in Sibila (São Paulo, Brazil), Poesía y poética (Mexico City, Mexico), Sibila (Seville, Spain), Ecopoetics (Buffalo, NY), Chain (Philadelphia), Circumference (New York), Tse-tsé (Buenos Aires), Literatura mexicana (Mexico City), Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas (New York). She has translated the poetry of Régis Bonvicino, Haroldo de Campos, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, and the Nobel laureate Jaroslav Seifert, among others. She co-edited the volume Novas: Selected Writings of Haroldo de Campos (Northwestern University Press, 2005). She also teaches Latin American Literature and Culture and translation at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Rob Cook is a social dropout trapped in New York City. He is not much of a self-promoter but has work in current issues of The Bitter Oleander, Ur Vox, Massachusetts Review, and Indefinite Space. His book Songs For The Extinction Of Winter is available from Rain Mountain Press.

LaÍs Corrêa de Aújo ra died in December of 2006. She was one of Brazil’s leading poets in the Modernismo movement, as well as an influential critic, poet, and activist, along with her husband, Affonzo Ávila.

Bruce Covey is Lecturer of Creative Writing at Emory University and author of The Greek Gods as Telephone Wires and the forthcoming Ten Pins, Ten Frames and Elapsing Speedway Organism. His recent poems also appear or are forthcoming in Verse, LIT, Bombay Gin, Boog City, Cannibal, 580 Split, and other journals. He edits the web-based poetry magazine Coconut and curates the What’s New in Poetry reading series in Atlanta, Georgia.

Claudio Daniel is from the Bexiga neighborhood of São Paulo. His first book Sutra was published in 1992. He was the poetry editor of the magazine Diario Popular. He has published three more collections, Yume (Ciencia do Acidente Press, 1999), Sombra do Leopardo (Azougue Editorial, 2001), and Figuras Metalicas Perspectiva (2005).

Chris Daniels was born in New York City in 1956. He dropped out of high school to become a dishwasher, never bothered with college, and now lives, works, and translates in the San Francisco Bay Area, where, for reasons still unclear to him, he passed the GED and received a high school diploma in 1996. His translations of Lusophone poetry have appeared all over the place.

Shira Dentz’s poems, stories, and reviews have appeared in various journals and anthologies including Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Field, American Letters & Commentary, LIT, Electronic Poetry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Chelsea, Seneca Review, Salt Hill Journal, Barrow Street, How?, The Journal, Diner, Web del Sol, Big Bridge, Tarpaulin Sky, and can we have our ball back?. She has received fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, the Ragdale Foundation, Squaw Valley Writers’ Community, and the MacDowell Arts Colony.

Albert Flynn DeSilver's recent poems have or are soon to appear in Jubilat, New American Writing, 5 Fingers Review, ISM, 26, Van Gogh’s Ear, Coconut, Bombay Gin, and elsewhere. A new book, Letters to Early Street, is due out Spring 2007 from La Alameda Press. He is editor/publisher of The Owl Press in Woodacre, California.

Julie Doxsee, born in London, Ontario, holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is now a PhD student at the University of Denver. Other recent work appears or is forthcoming in Retort Magazine, 42opus, Spork, La Petite Zine, H_NGM_N, Slope, Eratio Postmodern Poetry, Word For/Word, can we have our ball back, Elimae, Coconut Poetry, Conduit, Typo, Fourteen Hills, Shampoo, Action Yes, and other journals.

Steffi Drewes lives in Oakland, California and received her MFA from California College of the Arts. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Shampoo, Traffic, and Mirage #4/Period(ical), among others.

Werner Dürrson was born in 1932, studied music and literature and taught at the universities of Poitiers and Zürich. He has published in all genres. Some recent poetry titles are Gegenflut (2003), Wasserspiele (2002), and Aufgehobene Zeit (2002). He has also translated Mallarmé, Michaux, and Rimbaud into German.

kari edwards (1954-2006) received New Langton Arts Bay Area Award in literature (2002). edwards is author of obedience (Factory School, 2005), iduna (O Books, 2003), a day in the life of p. (subpress collective, 2002), a diary of lies ¯ Belladonna #27 (Belladonna Books, 2002), and post/(pink) (Scarlet Press, 2000). edwards’ work can also be found in Scribner’s The Best American Poetry, 2004, Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006), Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action (Coffee House Press, 2004), Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative (Coach House, 2004), Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others (Haworth Press, Inc., 2004), Experimental Theology (Seattle Research Institute, 2003), and Blood and Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard (Painted Leaf Press, 2000).

Laura Erber is from Rio de Janiero. She is a poet and artist and has published the book of poems Insones (7 Letras, 2002) and Os Corpos e os Dias Merz Solitude (2006). She was an artist in residence at the Center of Contemporary Art in Le Fresnoy France and also at the Akademie Schoss Solitude in Germany. Her works have appeared in museums and galleries in Brazil, Spain, Russia and France.

An American expatriate resident in England since 2001, Carrie Etter has published a chapbook, Subterfuge for the Unrequitable, with Potes & Poets in 1998, and her poems have appeared in Jacket, The New Republic, Poetry Review, Rhizome, Shearsman, Slope, The Times Literary Supplement, and other journals in the UK and US.

Michael Farrell has recent poems in Jacket and Verse. He is a postgraduate student at Deakin University in Melbourne. He is the author of ode ode (Salt Publishing, 2003). His reading-project blog is here.

Angelica Freitas was born in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul. Her work has appeared in the recent anthology 4 Younger Poets from Brazil. She blogs here.

Marcello Frixione teaches cognitive science at the University of Salerno.

Gabriel Gudding is the author of two books, A Defense of Poetry (Pitt Poetry Series, 2002) and Rhode Island Notebook (Dalkey Archive Press, 2008), a book he wrote in his car. His work appears in such anthologies as Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner, 2003) and as translator in such anthologies as Poems for the Millennium and The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University of California Press).

Gordon Hadfield's work has appeared in Fence, Colorado Review, Chain, Denver Quarterly, Ribot, and other journals. His translations of the Moroccan poet Abdellatif Laâbi have appeared in Circumference, Fascicle, and Blaze Vox. He lives in Northern Colorado.

Rob Halpern is the author of Rumored Place (Krupskaya, 2004) and Disaster Suite (Vigilance Society, 2006). Currently, he’s co-editing the poems of the late Frances Jaffer together with Kathleen Fraser, working on a collaborative project with Taylor Brady for Atticus / Finch, and translating the early essays of Georges Perec, the first of which is forthcoming in Chicago Review. He lives in San Francisco, California.

Erika Howsare lives in Virginia and holds an MFA from Brown University. A collaboration with Jen Tynes, The Ohio System, has just been published as a chapbook by Octopus Books. Other work has appeared in Fence, Chain, The New Orleans Review, Encyclopedia, the Denver Quarterly and CutBank, among others. Her most recent project is a fictional account of traveling with the 19th-century writer Isabella Bird.

Jibade-Khalil Huffman’s fiction and poetry have appeared in Bat City Review, NOON, and the Boston Review. He is at work on a novel.

Evelyn Ibarra was born and raised in Minnesota. She is currently a PEN USA Rosenthal Fellow for Emerging Voices. She lives in Los Angeles, California where she works as an architect.

Gabrielle Jesiolowski currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she makes poems and paintings of birds, fences, and vessels in her small studio. Her recent poems have showed up in places such as So To Speak, Sonora Review, Touchstone and On The Cut Sail. She will soon move west to begin her second MFA in sculpture after receiving her first MFA in poetry. She will like the oceans but not the highways.

Rodney Koeneke is the author of Musee Mechanique (BlazeVOX, 2006) and Rouge State (Pavement Saw, 2003). His work has been read or performed at Small Press Traffic, The Poetry Center at SFSU, the Pacific Film Archive, The Poetry Project and the 2006 Flarf Festival in New York City. He lives in Portland, Oregon with Lesley Poirier and their young son, Auden.

Drew Kunz is editor of g o n g press and Track & Field and is co-editor of the journal traverse. Recent writing has appeared in 26 Bird Dog, Denver Quarterly, POM2. He is also an artist and provided monoprints for Stacy Szymaszek’s book Emptied of All Ships (Litmus Press, 2005). He currently lives on Bainbridge Island in the Puget Sound.

Cyana Leahy is from the Brazilian city of Niteroi. Her work has appeared in England and the USA. She is the translator of Rose Marie Muraro, Olga Savary, and many other poets.

Juliana Leslie is the author of the chapbook Pie in the Sky, published by Braincase Press in 2003. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.

Maria Esther Maciel is a professor of letters at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Tris, from (Orobo Edicoes) and Dos Heveres de Corpo, (Belo Horizonte: Editora Terra, 1985).

Matias Mariani is a poet and filmmaker from São Paulo who is now studying film production at New York University. He is co-editor of the poetry magazine Sebastião.

Glauco Mattoso is the pseudonym for poet Pedro Jose Ferreira da Silva. Born in São Paulo, he is a poet and translator.

Sérgio Medeiros is a poet who fuses much of this dynamism into a new poetics with Guarani, Portuguese, Spanish influences. Medeiros is a professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianopolis.

Christina Mengert holds an MFA from Brown University and is pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing at Denver University. Her poems can be seen in Salt, Phoebe, Versal, Typo, The Canary, and other journals. Her first manuscript has twice been a National Poetry Series Finalist.

Edric Mesmer studied at the State University of New York at Geneseo and The University of Manchester. A resident of Brooklyn for the years between, he currently lives in Buffalo, New York and rides the bus that picks him up along Forest Lawn Cemetery.

Sandra Miller’s first book, Oriflamme, was published by Ahsahta Press in 2005. Her new work-entitled Chora-also currently appears in Crowd, Forklift, and Order + Decorum. Sandra will be teaching at Hollins University for the year 2006-2007, living near the ponies with her husband, the poet Ben Doyle, and their pup.

James Mulholland is a translator and professor working and living in England.

Denise Nico Leto is a San Francisco Bay Area poet and editor. Her poetry, reviews and essays have most recently appeared in 26: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics, Xantippe, Seneca Review, MELUS, and Passing Twice. Formerly an editor of the journal Sinister Wisdom and at Three Guineas Press, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2004.

Akira Nishimara is from Osaka, Japan. He is a well-known musician and translator.

Idra Novey’s poetry and translations have appeared in various journals, including Washington Square, Circumference, Poetry International, The Literary Review, and Rattapallax, where she is an editor. A recent recipient of a grant from the PEN Translation Fund, she is at work on a translated collection of poems by Brazilian writer Paulo Henriques Britto. Novey currently teaches writing at Columbia University.

Martha Oatis teaches poetry writing in New York City’s public schools. Excerpts from her long poem, "Two Percept," were published as a chapbook by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs in the fall of 2006.

Dora Ribeiro was born in Mato Grosso in 1960. Her debut collection Ladrilhos de Palavras was published in 1990. She has lived in Lisbon since 1985.

Charles A. Perrone is a faculty member in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He has published extensively on Brazilian poetry and is the official translator of poet Augusto de Campos.

Claudia Roque Pinto worked as a professional photographer, graduated from San Francisco State University in American Studies and, after graduating in translation from the Universidade Pontificia Universidade Catolica, worked as editor of the magazine Verve. She has published two books of poetry, Os Dias Gagos and Saxifragas.

Elizabeth Robinson is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Apostrophe from Apogee Press. She lives in Boulder and teaches at the University of Colorado. She is also a co-editor of 26 Magazine, EtherDome Chapbooks, and Instance Press.

Trey Sager is the author of O New York published by Ugly Duckling Presse, and is working on a book called The Weeds with artist Munro Galloway.

Brandon Shimoda was born in Tarzana, California. Poems and prose can be seen in Xantippe, Cannibal, Wildlife, GutCult, TYPO, and elsewhere, as well as in The Pines Volume Three: The Knights of Columbus, the latest in an ongoing collaboration with Phil Cordelli. He currently lives in Missoula, Montana, where he curates the New Lakes reading and performance series, and helps to edit for the Missoula Writing Collaborative and CutBank Literary Magazine.

Pontius Silas is a native of Lubbock, Texas, and an MFA candidate at Texas Tech University.

Marcos Siscar is a poet and translator at the University of São Paulo in São Jose do Rio Preto. He has published four collections of poetry and a book of criticism on the work of Jacques Derrida.

Michael Slosek lives in Chicago. His first book of poetry, Each In Neither, was released in May 2006 by House Press. He was the editor for the poetry magazine Drill from 2002-2006, and is now the co-editor of string of small machines with Eric Unger and Luke Daly. His poetry has appeared in Drill, Small Town and Plantarchy.

Sasha Steensen is the author of A Magic Book (Fence Books). She is currently working on a new manuscript, The Method, which takes its title from a collection of proofs by the Greek mathematician Archimedes. She teaches Creative Writing at Colorado State University.

Anne Tardos is a poet and visual artist. She has published five books of poetry and the multimedia performance work and radio play Among Men. She is the editor of Thing of Beauty: New and Selected Works, by Jackson Mac Low, forthcoming from the University of California Press in the fall of 2007. Her and Mac Low’s new CD can be listened to online at xtina.org/tarmac.htm.

Virna Teixeira is a poet and translator. She was born in Fortaleza, Brazil and has lived in São Paulo for many years where she works as a neurologist. She has published two books with 7 Letras press, Visita (2000) and Distancia (2005).

The poems "A-F" are from Matt Turner’s manuscript Poems of Value/For the Authentic. He has just finished another manuscipt called Wolves’ Poems. He has published in Wherever We Put Our Hats, Antennae, Onedit, and other journals. He lives in Beijing, where he teaches literature at the University of Chinese Medicine.

Jen Tynes edits Horse Less Press and is the author of The End Of Rude Handles (Red Morning Press, 2006), See Also Electric Light (Dancing Girl Press, 2007) and, with Erika Howsare, The Ohio System (Octopus Books, 2007). Her writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Lit, Denver Quarterly, Typo and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel: Second Floor.

Nico Vassilakis: This contortion self-recalls storm tainting sprays of robust mid collapse and blanketed affirmation. In its absent description portions of denuded poems remain vibrant. Nico lives in Seattle, Washington, home of the space needle. Momentarily never long enough.

Lina Ramona Vitkauskas co-edits the online literary/visual arts magazine milk. Poetry chapbooks include Failed Star Spawns Planet/ Star (Dancing Girl Press, 2006) and Shooting Dead Films with Poets (Fractal Edge Press, 2004). In 1994 she won Honorable Mention for Story magazine’s Carson McCullers Award. Her spoken-word CD, Opaque Lunacy, is due out this fall.

Rosmarie Waldrop's trilogy (The Reproduction of Profiles, Lawn of Excluded Middle, and Reluctant Gravities) is being reprinted by New Directions under the title Curves to the Apple (2006). A book of essays, Dissonance (if you are interested), is out from University of Alabama Press.

G.C. Waldrep’s books of poems are Goldbeater’s Skin (Colorado Prize, 2007), Disclamor (BOA Editions, 2007), and two chapbooks, The Batteries and One Way No Exit (New Michigan Press and Narwhal, respectively, 2006). Most of the poems in this suite are from a new book-length manuscript, Archicembalo.

Max Winter’s The Pictures was just published by Tarpaulin Sky Press. His poems have recently appeared in Free Verse, New American Writing, Ploughshares, The Paris Review, Colorado Review, Volt, The Yale Review, The Canary, Denver Quarterly, First Intensity, GutCult, TYPO, and New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois, 2000). He has published reviews in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, and BOMB, among other periodicals.

Devon Wootten is currently on a Fulbright fellowship to Aarhus, Denmark, where he translates the poems of Sophus Claussen. He is a contributing editor to CutBank Literary Magazine.