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Gregory Djanikian directs the creative writing program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Man in the Middle (1984), Falling Deeply into America (1989), About Distance (1995), Years Later (2000) and So I Will Till…

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John Ditsky has had over 1,300 poems published in magazines. His books of poetry include The Katherine Pomes, Scar Tissue and Friend & Lover. He teaches American Literature, Modern Drama…

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Anthony DiMatteo’s poems have appeared in Cordite Poetry Review, Front Porch, Long Island Quarterly, Main Street Rag, miller’s pond poetry magazine and Tar River Poetry; his prose, in College Literature, Early Modern Literary Studies and Renaissance…

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Katy Didden is pursuing her Ph.D. in literature and Creative Writing at the University of Missouri. Her poems appear in Crab Orchard Review, Calyx, Crazyhorse and Hayden’s Ferry Review. Her work appears in Smartish Pace, Issue…

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Max Diamond is a smoking jacket fanatic and coffee drinker. He lives in California with his pet cat, Thurman. He is a local playwright and funster. (2000)Poems: Rule Number 12 (From…

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Danielle Cadena Deulen is the winner of the 2011 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize for her book Lovely Asunder (Arkansas, 2011). She was the 2007-2008 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow…

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E. Michael Desilets was awarded the John M. Corcoran Poetry Prize, sponsored by the Irish Edition of Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in Hayden�s Ferry Review, Blue Collar Review, Steam…

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Carl Dennis is the author of ten books of poems including Practical Gods (Penguin, 2001), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; New and Selected Poems, 1974-2004 (Penguin, 2004); and Unknown Friends (Penguin, 2007). He received a Guggenheim…

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Chard deNiord is Associate Professor of English at Providence College and founder of the low residency MFA program in poetry at New England College. He is the author of Asleep in…

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Mark DeFoe’s eighth book, Weekend Update, was published in 2008 by Main Street Rag Press. He won the 2001 Erskine J. Poetry Prize and the 2005 Chautauqua Literary National Poetry Competition.…

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Thomas Day was born in England and lives in Italy where he is a close friend of Mario Luzi. His translations have appeared in numerous magazines. (2002)

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Erica Dawson’s first collection, Big-Eyed Afraid (Waywiser, 2007), won the 2006 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. She is Assistant Professor of English and Writing at the University of Tampa, and Poetry Editor of Tampa…

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