<strong>Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Diaz teaches at Arizona State University, and her first poetry collection is <em>When My Brother Was an Aztec</em>. [Photo by Cybele Knowles.]</strong>

Natalie Diaz

A Lexicon of the Indigenous Body: Images of Autonomy and Desire

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">— Fernando Pessoa, <em>The Book of Disquiet</em></p>

Around the World

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Art &amp; Architecture

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

<h4>Sam Hamill is an American poet and the co-founder of Copper Canyon Press along with Bill O’Daly and Tree Swenson. He is the initiator of the Poets Against War movement, which he set up in response to the Iraq War, and has been awarded the Stanley Lindberg Lifetime Achievement Award for Editing and the Washington Poets Association Lifetime Achievement Award.</h4>

Sam Hamill

<h4>Ada Limón is the author of three books of poetry, <em>Lucky Wreck,</em> <em>This Big Fake World,</em> and<em>Sharks in the Rivers</em>. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from New York University where she studied with Philip Levine, Sharon Olds, Mark Doty, and Marie Howe among others. Limón has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and was one of the judges for the 2013 National Book Award in Poetry.</h4>

Ada Limón

<h4>Robert Wrigley is an American poet. From 1987 to 1988 he served as writer-in-residence for the state of Idaho, and he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Idaho State Commission on the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. His most recent book is <em>Anatomy of Melancholy &amp; Other Poems</em>.</h4>

Robert Wrigley

<h4>Jennifer L. Knox is an American poet. She received her BA from the University of Iowa, and her MFA in poetry writing from New York University. She has taught poetry writing at Hunter College and New York University. Her new book of poems, <em>Days of Shame and Failure</em>, will be published by Bloof Books in 2015.</h4>

Jennifer L. Knox

<h4>C. Dale Young practices medicine full-time, serves as Poetry Editor of the <i>New England Review</i>, and teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He is the author of <i>The Day Underneath the Day</i> (TriQuarterlyBooks, 2001), <i>The Second Person</i> (Four Way Books, 2007), and <i>Torn </i>(Four Way Books, 2011).</h4>

C. Dale Young

<h4><strong>Dana Levin is the author of <em>In the Surgical Theatre</em>, <em>Wedding Day</em>, and <em>Sky Burial</em>, which was noted for 2011 year-end honors by <em>The New Yorker</em>, the <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em>, <em>Library Journal</em>, and <em>Coldfront</em> <em>Magazine</em>. A recipient of fellowships from the Rona Jaffe, Whiting and Guggenheim Foundations, Levin chairs the Creative Writing and Literature Department at Santa Fe University of Art and Design.</strong></h4>

Dana Levin

<h4><strong>Lytton Smith is Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Plymouth University. He is the author of a book of poems, <em>The All-Purpose Magical Tent</em>, and two translated novels from the Icelandic.</strong></h4>

Lytton Smith

On Galway Kinnell 

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

A World Carved from Words: The First Navajo Poet Laureate

<strong>Alex Dimitrov</strong> <strong>is the author of <em>Love and Other Poems</em>, which will be published in February of 2021, <em>Together and by Ourselves</em>, and <em>Begging for It</em>. With Dorothea Lasky he is the co-author of <em>Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac</em>. He lives in New York.</strong>

Alex Dimitrov

<h4>Sean Hill is the author of two poetry collections, <em>Blood Ties &amp; Brown Liquor</em> (UGA Press, 2008) and Dangerous Goods, which is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in early 2014. More information can be found at <a href="http://www.seanhillpoetry.com">www.seanhillpoetry.com</a>.</h4>

Sean Hill

John Murillo

<h4>Matthew Zapruder is an American poet, editor, and teacher. He<strong>&nbsp;is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently <em>Father’s Day</em>, from Copper Canyon in Fall 2019, as well as <em>Why Poetry</em>, a book of prose. He is editor at large at Wave Books, and teaches in the MFA and English Department at Saint Mary’s College of California.</strong></h4>
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Matthew Zapruder

<strong>Dan Beachy-Quick&nbsp;is the author of six books of poetry, six chapbooks (two in collaboration with Srikanth Reddy), and two prose collections, as well as criticism and fiction. His work has won the Colorado Book Award, and has been a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Prize, and the PEN/USA Literary Award in Poetry, and included on the&nbsp;<em>Best American Poetry</em>&nbsp;anthology. He is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation residency, and has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He was one of two Monfort Professors at CSU for 2013–2015, and his work has been supported by the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University, where he serves as assistant chair of the English Department and teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing.</strong>

Dan Beachy-Quick

<h4>Eloise Klein Healy is the author of seven books of poetry and three spoken word recordings. &nbsp;She is the founding editor of Arktoi Books, an imprint of Red Hen Press specializing in the work of lesbian authors. Her latest collection of poems is<em> A Wild Surmise: New &amp; Selected Poems &amp; Recordings</em>. Healy was recently appointed the first Poet Laureate of The City of Los Angeles.</h4>

Eloise Klein Healy

<h4>Reginald Dwayne Betts is a husband and father of two sons. The author of the memoir, <em>A Question of Freedom </em>(Avery/Penguin 2009) and the collection of poetry, <em>Shahid Reads His Own Palm </em>(Alice James Books, 2010), Betts has been awarded fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, the Open Society Institute, Bread Loaf Writers&rsquo; Workshop and Warren Wilson College. As a poet, essayist and national spokesperson for the Campaign for Youth Justice, Betts writes and lectures about the impact of mass incarceration on American society.</h4>
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Reginald Dwayne Betts

<h4><span>Adrian Matejka is an American poet. His most recent book, <em>Mixology</em>, was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series. He graduated from Southern Illinois University Carbondale with an MFA in Creative Writing.</span></h4>

Adrian Matejka

<h4><span>Brett Fletcher Lauer is the deputy director of the Poetry Society of&nbsp;</span><span>America and the poetry editor of <em>A Public Space</em>. His first book, <em>A&nbsp;</em></span><span><em>Hotel in Belgium</em>, is forthcoming from Four Way Books.</span></h4>

Brett Fletcher Lauer

<h4>Sarah Vap is the author of four collections of poetry. The most recent,<em> Arco Iris </em>(Saturnalia Books) was named a Library Journal Book Best Book of 2012. She is a recipient of a 2013 National Endowment of the Arts Grant for poetry. Her first collection, <em>Dummy Fire</em>, received the Saturnalia Poetry Prize. Her second collection, <em>American Spikenard</em>, received the Iowa Poetry Prize. She lives in Santa Monica and is pursuing her PhD at University of Southern California.</h4>

Sarah Vap

<h4>Jill McDonough's books of poems include&nbsp;<em>Habeas Corpus </em>(Salt, 2008), <em>Oh, James!</em> (Seven Kitchens, 2012), and <em>Where You Live</em> (Salt, 2012). The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, and Stanford&rsquo;s Stegner program, she taught incarcerated college students through Boston University&rsquo;s Prison Education Program for thirteen years.&nbsp; She teaches poetry at UMass-Boston and directs 24PearlStreet, the online writing program at the Fine Arts Work Center. &nbsp;</h4>

Jill McDonough

<h4>Jessica Piazza is the author of the poetry collection <em>Interrobang&nbsp;</em>(Red Hen Press, 2013) and the chapbook&nbsp;<em>This is not a sky&nbsp;</em>(Black Lawrence Press, forthcoming 2014). Born&nbsp;and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she is currently a PhD candidate in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. She is a co-founder of&nbsp;<em>Bat City Review </em>and&nbsp;Gold Line Press and a contributing editor at&nbsp;<em>The Offending Adam</em>.</h4>

Jessica Piazza

<h4>Lynn Melnick’s first collection of poetry, <em>If I Should Say I Have Hope</em>, was published by YesYes Books in 2012.</h4>

Lynn Melnick

<h4><strong>Meghan O'Rourke is the author of the poetry collections <em>Halflife</em> and <em>Once</em>, and the memoir <em>The Long Goodbye</em>.</strong></h4>

Meghan O'Rourke

Heart-Shaped Box: LARB Poetry Valentine Edition

Federico García Lorca, Valentine

Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Diaz teaches at Arizona State University, and her first poetry collection is <em>When My Brother Was an Aztec</em>. [Photo by Cybele Knowles.]