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Coleman Barks is the author of four books of poetry including, most recently, Gourd Seed (Maypop, 1993). He has also translated sixteen volumes of Jelaluddin Rumi into English, culminating in…

Walter Bargen is the author of eight books of poetry, including Harmonic Balance (Timberline, 2001). In 1997 he won the Chester H. Jones Foundation poetry prize. (2002)

Poems: Speech is Designed to Persuade (From Issue 4)

Barry Ballard’s most recent collections of poetry are First Probe to Antarctica (Bright Hill, 2001) and Plowing to the End of the Road (Finishing Line, 2002). He won 3rd Place…

JoAnn Balingit’s poems have most recently appeared in Salt Hill, Pearl, can we have our ball back? and DIAGRAM’s second print anthology (Del Sol Press, 2006). She has received a…

Aaron Baker received an MFA from the University of Virginia in 2001 and completed a two-year Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. He lives in Charlottesville, VA, and teaches in…

Benjamin Aleshire is based in New Orleans and travels the world as a poet-for-hire. His work has appeared in Boston Review, El Mundo, Iowa Review and NEON Magazine. A recipient…

Dilruba Ahmed’s debut book, Dhaka Dust (Graywolf, 2011), won the Bakeless Literary Prize.  Her poems have been anthologized in Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (U. of…

Clarissa Adkins is an MFA candidate in poetry with Lesley University’s low-residency program. Recently, her work appeared in Parentheses Journal, Plath Poetry Project and Poems2Go. She is a reader for…

Betty Adcock is the author of five books of poems from LSU, most recently Intervale: New and Selected Poems, which was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize and winner of…