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met Shahid when they were both on staff at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in the 1980s. The first line of Woody’s poem alludes to “Mending

is a professor at the Santa Fe Institute, where he studies theoretical evolutionary biology. His poems have appeared in the Colorado Review,

has published poetry in Runes, Cream City Review, The Dublin Quarterly, International Poetry Review, Nimrod, and other journals. Her show,

has completed a book – length collection of ghazals to be called In Which We See Our Selves: American Ghazals. His two poems entitled “Of

is a member of the English Department at the University of Massachusetts — Amherst. She formerly taught at Trinity College, Dublin. She has

is the author of the chapbook Faith (Finishing Line Press, 2008). Her writing has appeared in Gulf Coast, Cimarron Review, Indiana Review, and

has published four collections of poetry, including Brilliant Water and Watch Fire, for which he received the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets

earned an MFA at the University of Massachusetts — Amherst when Shahid ruled poetry. Lack of poetic – DNA led to a Pushcart nomination and

has recently had poems published in Boulevard, The Southern Review, and I Go To The Ruined Places, a human rights anthology. His poems have also

has published in Barrow Street Boulevard, Chelsea, Cimarron Review, The Cincinnati Review, Southwest Review, Western Humanities Review, among

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