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SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 2006, 3 PM

Steve Turtell is a native New Yorker.He has been 
He earned his MFA at Brooklyn College where he 
was editor of Brooklyn Review. His chapbook 
Letter to Frank O'Hara is available from P&Q 
Press. His work has been featured in the 
anthologies Blood & Tears: Poems for Matthew 
Shepard and This New Breed: Gents, Bad Boys & 
Barbarians 2, from Windstorm Press, and in other publications

Robert Viscusi has published a long poem, An 
Oration upon the Most Recent Death 
of  Christopher Columbus (VIA Folios, 1993), a 
novel entitled Astoria (Guernica, 1995; American 
Book Award 1996), a collection of poems entitled 
A New Geography of Time (Guernica, 2004) and a 
critical history entitled Buried Caesars, And 
Other Secrets of  Italian.American Writing  (SUNY 
Press, 2006).  He is professor of English and 
director of The Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College.

Mark Weiss is the author of six books of poetry, 
most recently Figures: 32 Poems (Tucson: Chax 
Press, 2001) and the e-book Different Birds 
(Exeter, UK: Shearsman Books 2004; 
http//www.shearsman.com/pages/books/ebooks/ebooks_pdfs/weiss_db.pdf). 
He is the editor, with Harry Polkinhorn, of the 
bilinguial anthology Across the Line / Al otro 
lado: The Poetry of Baja California (San Diego: 
Junction Press, 2002) and the translator of 
Cuaderno de San Antonio / The San Antonio 
Notebook, by Javier Manriquez (La Paz, Mexico: 
Editorial Praxis, 2005). Forthcoming are, as 
coeditor, with Marc Kaminsky, Stories as 
Equipment for Living: Late Talks and Tales of 
Barbara Myerhoff (Ann Arbor: University of 
Michigan Press, 2006), and as editor and 
translator, The Whole Island: Six Decades of 
Cuban Poetry (Berkeley: University of California 
Press, 2008) and Stet: Selected Poems of Jose 
Kozer (New York: Junction Press, 2006).

Robert Harding—To Be Provided


HOST  Michael Graves  is the author of two books 
of poems, Outside St. Jude’s, which was re-issued 
as an ebook by Rattapallax; his second book, ADAM 
AND CAIN, is forthcoming from Black Buzzard Press 
(2006). Graves is the recipient of a grant of 
$4,500 from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation for 
two thousand four. He has published thirteen 
poems in the James Joyce Quarterly and read a 
selection of his poems to a meeting of the James 
Joyce Society at the Gotham Book Mart in New York 
City. His poem “Apollo to Daphne” appears in Gods 
and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical 
Myths  (Oxford University Press, 2001) . He has 
published widely in journals and magazines, some 
of which include The Classical Outlook, European 
Judaism, The Journal of Irish Literature (4), 
Writer’s Forum, Rattapallax (5), The Hurricane 
Review, The Hollins Critic (11), Archipelago, and 
Salonika (4). He has had two editorial positions 
at Rattapallax and been an editor for R. E.M. 
Press and The Poetry News Letter and a 
Contributing Editor to the Aeraiocht Press. He 
sponsored and organized the conference “Baptism 
of Fire: The Work of James Wright”, which took 
place at Poets. House in New York City, Saturday, March 27, 2004

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