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Tom
Wayman
is the 2006 Fulbright Visiting
Research Chair in Creative Writing at Arizona
State University. During the past 33 years, more than a dozen
collections of his poems have been published. His latest volume in
the United States is I'll Be Right Back
(1997) and in Canada, My Father's Cup (2002).
Wayman presently teaches at the University
of Calgary, Alberta. When not away teaching, he is the Squire of "Appledore,"
his estate in the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern British
Columbia.
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James Cervantes' poems have appeared recently in Spoon
River Poetry Review, The
Laurel Review, The Boston Review and other magazines. His
latest book of poetry, Temporary Meaning, was published in
March 2006 by Hamilton Stone Editions
and has been nominated for a 2006 "Los Angeles Times" Book
Award. Other books include,
The Headlong Future, The Year Is
Approaching Snow and Changing the Subject,
co-authored with Halvard Johnson. Cervantes is the editor of the
online journal, The Salt River Review.
Presented as part of
Arte es Amor, an annual celebration
of Latino arts and culture throughout Tempe and ASU. |
Alicia Beale’s
first book of poetry, The Manifestation of Orange Poppies is
forthcoming in 2007. Her work has been published in a number of
literary reviews, including The Greensboro Review, Prairie
Schooner, The Beloit Poetry Journal and The Green Mountains
Review. She has a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Eastern
Washington University and a certificate in teaching creative writing
from Antioch University. She currently teaches poetry for Arizona
State University’s Virginia Piper Center for the Arts. |
Christopher Burawa
is a 2007
recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in
Translation. He is translating from the Icelandic selected poems by
Jóhann Hjálmarsson, who received the 2003 Icelandic Parliament Award
in recognition of his outstanding contributions to that nation's
literature. Burawa is the Literature Director at the Arizona
Commission on the Arts. His first collection, The Small Mystery
of Lapses (2006), won the Cleveland State University Poetry
Prize. His chapbook of translations Of the Same Mind (2005)
won the Toad Press International Chapbook Competition. Burawa has
also received MacDowell Colony and Witter Bynner fellowships. He is
a 2003 graduate of Arizona State University’s Masters of Fine Arts’
program. |
