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Eric Pankey is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently The Pear as One Example (Ausable, 2008). His work has been supported by fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the NEA…

Mrinal Pande earned an MA in English from Allahabad University. She edited Vama, a women’s magazine, and Saptahik Hindustan, a weekly news magazine, and currently co-edits the daily newspaper, Hindustan…

Stella Padnos received her B.A. from SUNY-Binghamton. Her poems have recently appeared, or are forthcoming, in Anthology, Common Ground Review and Southern Poetry Review. She won 3rd Place in the…

Judith Pacht won the Georgia Poetry Society’s 2005 Edgar Bowers competition, received the 2006 Margaret Reid High Distinction Award and was a finalist in the Tupelo Press open submission competition.…

Mary Quade’s Guide to Native Beasts won the 2003 Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize. In 2006 she was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. She is an…

F. Daniel Rzicznek, whose poems have appeared in Luna Negra and Artemis, lives in Auburn, Ohio. (2003)

Patrick Ryan Frank’s first collection of poems, How the Losers Love What’s Lost, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in the spring of 2012. His poetry has appeared in Best New Poets…

R.M. Ryan is the author of Goldilocks in Later Life (poems, LSU, 1980) and of The Golden Rules (novel, Four Walls Eight Windows/No Exit, 2002) which is currently being translated…

Stan Sanvel Rubin directs the Rainier Writing Workshop low-residency MFA at Pacific Lutheran University. His third poetry collection, Hidden Sequel (Barrow Street, 2006), won the Barrow Street Press Book Contest. His work…

Kathleen Rooney received a Ruth Lilly Fellowship in 2003. She is the author of Reading With Oprah (Arkansas, 2005). Her poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 13. [bio updated 2006]

Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585) was born in Couture-sur-Loir, France. He was the leader of the Pléiade, French humanists who were inspired by classical culture, but sought to create a French…

Matthew Rohrer is the author of eight books, including A Hummock in the Malookas (W.W. Norton, 1995), Nice Hat. Thanks. (with Joshua Beckman; Wave, 2002) and A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling, 2009). He has received…