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Contending With the Dark /
Against That Time
Jeffrey Schwartz & Ron Schreiber
Jeffrey Schwartz holds degrees from Boston University, the University of Massachusetts and Carnegie-Mellon University. He currently teaches English at Greenwich Academy in Connecticut.
Ron Schreiber's collections of poetry include Moving to a New Place (1974, available from Alice James Books), John (1988), and False Clues (2000).
The Hardness Scale
Joyce Peseroff
Joyce Peseroff grew up in New York City and currently lives in Massachusetts. Her other books include A Dog in the Lifeboat, Robert Bly: When Sleepers Awake, and The Ploughshares Poetry Reader. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, as well as grants from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has taught in the MFA program at Emerson College and has been a Visiting Professor and Poet-in-Residence at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. In 2000, The Hardness Scale was republished by the Carnegie Mellon Univerisity Press Classic Contemporary series. Joyce Peseroff's fourth book of poems, Eastern Mountain Time, will be published by Carnegie Mellon Univesity Press in January 2006. She is currently editing a collection of essays, memoirs, poems and other material about Jane Kenyon for Graywolf Press.
Home Country
Cheryl Savageau
Cheryl Savageau's work has appeared widely in magazines, journals and anthologies including AGNI, River Styx, Sojourner, and The Boston Review. She is the author of Home Country and Dirt Road Home (Curbstone Press). In recognition of her work she has received grants for writing from The National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. She currently resides in New Hampshire.
Impossible Dreams
Pati Hill
Pati Hill was born in Kentucky.
"Pati Hill is always doing extraordinary things, quite unlike anything anyoneelse is doing, full of wit and ingenuity and imagination. Impossible Dreams combines all of these..." –George Plimpton
Permanent Address
Ruth Whitman
During her lifetime, Ruth Whitman was the author of eight books of poetry, including Laughing Gas: Poems New and Selected 1963 – 1990 and Tamsen Donner (available from Alice James Books), and translator of the Yiddish poetry of Abraham Sutzkever. She was a recipient of a Senior Fulbright Writer-in-Residence Fellowship to Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a Bunting Institute Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Grant.
Riding With the Fireworks
Ann Darr
Ann Darr has published eight poetry collections, including Love In The Past Tense (2000) and Gussie, Mad Hannah & Me (1999). Riding With the Fireworks is about her travels with the American Waterways Symphony. Her poetry has appeared in The New Virginia Review, Moznayim (Israel), The Dolphin's Arc, and others.
Shrunken Planets
Robert Louthan
Robert Louthan was born in 1951 and raised on Long Island, New York. He was educated at Empire State College (B.A., 1976) and Goddard College (M.F.A., 1978). His books include Living in Code (University of Pittsburgh, 1983). His poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review, as well as in dozens of other magazines. He is anthologized in Anthology of Magazine Verse (Monitor Book Company, 1980) and Pioneer Letter: The Letter As Literature (Northwest Review Books, 1981), and is published as an interviewer in The Weather For Poetry, edited by Donald Hall (University of Michigan Press, 1982).
Streets After Rain
Elizabeth Knies
Elizabeth Knies is the author of five collections of poetry, including The New Year & Other Poems (1975); From the Window (1985); The Unstopped Heart (1992); and White Peonies (2001). Three Some Poems, by Elizabeth Knies, Kinereth Gensler & Jeannine Dobbs, is available from Alice James Books. A native of Pennsylvania, she won the Sarah Homer Prize for Creative Writing from Allegheny College, her undergraduate alma mater. After completing a master's degree in English Language and Linguistics at the University of New Hampshire, she taught for two and a half years at Shoin Women's University in Kobe, Japan. Subsequent teaching positions took her to Missouri and Colorado. Her reviews of film, drama, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in The Boston Globe, Kirkus Reviews, The Missouri Review, and Portfolio. In 1998 – 99, as a teaching fellow in the Creative Writing Program at Boston University, she earned a master's degree in Creative Writing. She now lives in Kingston, New Hampshire, where she intends to stay "for good."
