Spring 2012

David Baker’s latest book of poems, Never-Ending Birds (2009), was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize and won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize. He has received fellowships and awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Pushcart Foundation. He is poetry editor of The Kenyon Review and holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair of Creative Writing at Denison University.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Antiquarian Society. Her most recent book of poetry is Red Clay Suite (Southern Illinois, 2007). She won the Goodheart Award in Fiction from Shenandoah. She is an associate professor of English at University of Oklahoma.

Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University and editor in chief of the Southwest Review. The author of several books on poetry, his recent work includes How Poets See the World: The Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry (Oxford, 2005) and Love, Amy: The Selected Letters of Amy Clampitt (Columbia, 2005).