Bruce Bennett is Professor of English, Director of Creative Writing and Director of the Wells College Book Arts Center at Wells College. A co-founder and former Editor of both Ploughshares and Field, and now a Associate Editor at State Street Press, he has reviewed contemporary poetry for the New York Times Book Review, The Nation and Harvard Review. He is the author of nineteen collections of poetry with Separations (Clandestine Press) and Bruce Bennett: Greatest Hits 1962-2000 (Pudding House Publishing) forthcoming in 2001. Navigating the Distances (Orchises Press, 1999) was selected by Booklist as one of the �Top 10 Poetry Books� of 1999. He lives in Aurora, New York. (2001)
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The Publisher Calls It Quits (From Issue 10)