DICK ALLEN
Poetic Line

Dick Allen’s seventh collection of poetry, Present Vanishing, will be published by Sarabande Books in October, 2008.  Sarabande also published his two previous works, The Day Before: New Poems and Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected.  His poetry has been included in The Best American Poetry series five times, in The Best American Spiritual Writing twice, and in scores of other national poetry anthologies.  He has received a Pushcart Prize and NEA, Ingram Merrill, and Robert Frost Poetry Writing Fellowships, among many other honors, including awards for his college teaching.  His poetry, split almost evenly between formal and free verse, has appeared in hundreds of periodicals, including The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, New Criterion, Poetry, Hudson Review, Georgia Review, APR, Triquarterly. 

MOIRA EGAN: Co-leader
Poetry in the Classroom

Moira Egan has an MFA from Columbia University, where James Merrill chose her manuscript for the Austin Prize.  Her first book, Cleave (WWPH, 2004), was nominated for the National Book Award and was a finalist for ForeWord Book of the Year.  Poems have been included in several anthologies, including Kindled Terraces; Lofty Dogmas; Discovering Genre: Poetry; and Best American Poetry (forthcoming, 2008).  Work has appeared in translation in Nuovi Argomenti and Lo Straniero (Italy) and in Hbula Stirati (Malta). She was a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2004), as well as the Writer-in-Residence at the St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity in Valletta, Malta (2006). She lives in Rome.

RHINA ESPAILLAT: Co-leader
Poetry in the Classroom
Rhina P. Espaillat has published seven full-length books and three chapbooks. She is the recipient of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, the Wilbur Award, the Nemerov Prize, three of the yearly awards given by the Poetry Society of America, several awards from the New England Poetry Club, and the “Tree at My Window” Award from the Robert Frost Foundation, as well as awards from the Dominican Republic's Ministry of Culture. In addition to her poems, short stories and essays in English, Espaillat writes in her native Spanish, and has published translations in both languages, notably of Robert Frost and Saint John of the Cross. Her two most recent books are a bilingual collection of poems and essays, Agua de dos rios, published in 2006, and El olor de la memoria: cuentos/The Scent of Memory: Short Stories, a bilingual collection of stories published in 2007 by the Dominican Center for Bibliographical Studies, Inc.

RACHEL HADAS

Master Class
Rachel Hadas is Board of Governors Professor of English at the Newark campus of Rutgers University, where she has taught for many years. Her honors include an Award in Literature from the American Academy-Institute of Arts and Letters and the O.B. Hardison Poetry Prize, and she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her most recent books are The River of Forgetfulness, poetry, 2006, and Classics, selected prose, 2007. She is currently coediting an anthology of Greek poetry in translation from Homer to the present, due out from Norton in 2009-2010.

H.L. HIX
Experimental Form
H. L. Hix teaches at the University of Wyoming. His recent books from Etruscan Press include a collection of essays on poetry, As Easy As Lying, an anthology, Wild and Whirling Words, a poetry collection, Chromatic, that was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award, and God Bless, a “political/poetic discourse” built around sonnets and sestinas and villanelles composed of quotations from George W. Bush.

ANDREW HUDGINS
Narrative
Andrew Hudgins has published six books of poetry, and one critical book, The Glass Hammer, in the University of Michigan’s Poets on Poetry series.  His most recent book of poems is Ecstatic in the Poison (Overlook Press, 2003).  He is Humanities Distinguished Professor in English at The Ohio State University. 

MARK JARMAN
Master Class

Mark Jarman's most recent collections of poetry include Epistles, To the Green Man, Unholy Sonnets and Questions for Ecclesiastes, which won the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.   He has published two collections of his essays, The Secret of Poetry and Body and Soul:  Essays on Poetry.  With David Mason, he edited Rebel Angels:  25 Poets of the New Formalism.  With Robert McDowell, he wrote The Reaper Essays.

DAVID MASON
Master Class
David Mason's books of poems include The Buried Houses, The Country I Remember, Arrivals, and the verse novel, Ludlow. His essays, The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry, appeared in 2000. He has also co-edited several textbooks and anthologies, including Western Wind, with John Frederick Nims, Twentieth Century American Poetry, and Twentieth Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry, with Dana Gioia and Meg Schoerke. Mason teaches at the Colorado College and lives in the mountains outside Colorado Springs with his wife, photographer Annie Lennox.

ERIC MCHENRY
Rhyme
Eric McHenry is the author of Potscrubber Lullabies (Waywiser Press), which won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. His poems, essays and reviews have appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, Slate, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, The Boston Globe, The Baffler, Harvard Review, The Independent (London) and other publications. He lives with his wife and two children in Seattle.

J. ALLYN ROSSER
French Forms

J. Allyn Rosser’s new collection, Foiled Again, won the 2007 New Criterion Poetry Prize and was published this Fall by Ivan R. Dee.  Her previous books are Misery Prefigured, and Bright Moves. She has received numerous other awards for her work, among them the Peter I.B. Lavan Award for Younger Poets from the Academy of American Poets, the J. Howard and Barbara M.J.Wood and Frederick Bock prizes from Poetry, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, Bread Loaf, the Ohio Arts Council and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Her work has appeared recently in Slate, Poetry, The Hudson Review, The Georgia Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The Kenyon Review, and Best American Poetry 2006. Rosser has taught at the University of Houston, the University of Michigan, and Vermont College, and currently teaches at Ohio University.

ROBERT SHAW
Blank Verse
Robert B. Shaw, who as an undergraduate studied poetry writing with Robert Fitzgerald and Robert Lowell, is the author of five collections of poems, including most recently Below the Surface (Copper Beech) and Solving for X (Ohio University Press), which won the Hollis Summers Prize. His new book Blank Verse: A Guide to Its History and Use (Ohio University Press) is the first comprehensive work on its subject since 1895. He is Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College.

A.E. STALLINGS
Sonnet
A.E. Stallings has published two collections of poetry: Archaic Smile , which won the Richard Wilbur Award, and Hapax (2006). Her poetry has been awarded a Pushcart prize, the Frederick Bock prize, and the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award, among others. Her work has also been included in the Best American Poetry Series (1994 and 2000). She studied Classics in Athens, Georgia, and now lives in Athens, Greece, with her husband, John Psaropoulos, and their son, Jason. Her new verse translation of Lucretius, The Nature of Things, is recently out from Penguin Classics.
 

TIMOTHY STEELE
Meter
Timothy Steele's most recent book of poems is Toward the Winter Solstice. His previous collections include The Color Wheel and Sapphics and Uncertainties: Poems 1970—1986. He is also the author of two books of literary criticism, Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and The Revolt Against Meter and All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets, and a Commonwealth Club of California Medal for Poetry. He lives in Los Angeles where he teaches at California State University.

DIANE THIEL
Dramatic Monologue

Diane Thiel is the author of seven books of poetry, nonfiction and creative writing pedagogy:  Echolocations (Nicholas Roerich Prize), Writing Your Rhythm, The White Horse: A Colombian Journey, Resistance Fantasies, Crossroads: Creative Writing Exercises in Four Genres, Open Roads: Exercises in Writing Poetry, and Winding Roads: Exercises in Writing Creative Nonfiction.  Her translation of Alexis Stamatis’s American Fugue (Etruscan Press, 2008) recently received an NEA International Literature Award.  Thiel’s work appears in Poetry, The Hudson Review, Best American Poetry 1999 and is re-printed in over 25 major anthologies.  A recipient of the Robert Frost and Robinson Jeffers Awards, and a recent Fulbright Scholar, she is Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico.

CATHERINE TUFARIELLO
Writing and Revising in Form
Catherine Tufariello received her Ph.D. in English literature from Cornell University, where she specialized in American poetry.  Annunciations , her first book of verse, was published by Aralia Press in 2001. Her first full-length collection, Keeping My Name , was a Booklist Editor's Choice selection for 2004, a finalist for the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, and the winner of the 2006 Poets' Prize. An associate director of the Project on Civic Reflection, she lives in Valparaiso, Indiana with her husband, Jeremy Telman, and their daughter Sophia Rose.