Spring 2007

David Caplan is the author of four books of poetry criticism and poetry, most recently Rhyme’s Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture (Oxford, 2014). The Charles M. Weis Chair in English at Ohio Wesleyan University, he serves as a contributing editor to VQR and received the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry.

Philip Caputo served in the US Marine Corps from 1964–67 as a member of the first ground combat unit to fight in Vietnam–a time described in his classic memoir A Rumor of War. From 1968–1977, he served as a reporter and foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, sharing the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1972. His first novel, Horn of Africa, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1980. He is the author of more than thirteen books of fiction and nonfiction, including Acts of Faith (Knopf, 2005), set in war-torn Sudan.