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German poetry, guest edited by Rosmarie Waldrop
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Mexican poetry, guest edited by Jen Hofer
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Japanese poetry, guest edited by Sawako Nakayasu
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Aufgabe # 4 | Table of Contents | Contributor's Notes

Contributor's Notes

Brenda Iijima is the author of Around Sea (O Books, 2004). She runs Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs in Brooklyn, NY. yoyolabs@hotmail.com

Andrew Joron is author of Fathom (Black Square Editions), named by the Village Voice as one of the "top 25 books of 2003." He resides in Berkeley.

Ange Mlinko's second book, Starred Wire, was a National Poetry Series winner in 2004 and is now available from Coffee House Press. She lives in Brooklyn.

Mark Tardi is from Chicago, Illinois. His first book, Euclid Shudders, was published by Litmus Press. A chapbook from his new manuscript, Airport music, was recently published by Bronze Skull Press; a chapbook on Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin called Part First-----Chopin's Feet is forthcoming from G-O-N-G.

Anne Tardos is working on a new series of poems and continues to maintain the web sites www.annetardos.com and www.jacksonmaclow.com whenever she has a free minute.

Rosmarie Waldrop's most recent books of poetry are Blindsight (New Directions) and Love, Like Pronouns (Omnidawn). The memoir, Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabés, was published by Wesleyan University Press, and a book of essays, Dissonance (if you are interested), is just out from University of Alabama Press.

Craig Watson is the author of True News (Instance Press, 2002), Free Will (Roof, 2000), Reason (Zasterle, 1998) and other books. With Michael Gizzi he publishes QUA Books. He lives in Rhode Island, where he works in a professional theater. These are the first of his "action" poems to appear.

Elizabeth Willis is the author of three books of poetry, including Turneresque (Burning Deck, 2003) and The Human Abstract (Penguin, 1995). A fourth collection is forthcoming in 2006. She teaches at Wesleyan University.