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ParticipantsBilly CollinsBilly Collins has published 7 collections of poetry, including Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. In the Spring of 2000, Picador in the UK published a collection of poems, Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes. Random House has since published 2 collections of poems, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New & Selected Poems and Nine Horses.In the Spring of 2003, Random House published Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, an anthology of poems selected and with an introduction by Collins. A second anthology will be published by Random House in Spring 2005 and is titled 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. In June, 2001, Billy Collins was appointed United States Poet Laureate 2001-2003. In January, 2004, Collins was named New York State Poet Laureate 2004-2006. In October, 2004, Collins was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Poetry Foundation's Mark Twain Award for humorous poetry. Martín EspadaMartín Espada, widely considered "the Latino poet of his generation", was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1957. His 7th collection, Alabanza: New and Selected Poems (1982-2002), published by Norton in 2003, received the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement and was named an American Library Association Notable Book of the Year. An earlier collection, Imagine the Angels of Bread (Norton), won an American Book Award and was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Other awards include the Robert Creeley Award, the Antonia Pantoja Award and 2 NEA Fellowships. He is the editor of Poetry Like Bread: Poets of the Political Imagination from Curbstone Press. Espada is a professor in the English Department at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he teaches Creative Writing, Latino Poetry and the work of Pablo Neruda.Karen KarbienerKaren Karbiener received her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 2001 and teaches at New York University. A scholar of Romanticism and radical cultural legacies, she is general editor of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of American Counterculture (M.E. Sharpe, 2006). The American poet Walt Whitman is her critical focus; her edition of Leaves of Grass was published by Barnes and Noble in January, 2005 and her 14-lecture series entitled "Whitman and the Beginnings of Modern American Poetry" will be available on CD, as part of Recorded Books' "Modern Scholars" series, later in 2005. Karen is curating an exhibit for the 150th anniversary of Leaves of Grass, entitled "Walt Whitman and the Promise of America, 1855-2005", to open July 4th at the South Street Seaport Museum.Jerome LovingJerome Loving is Distinguished Professor of English at Texas A&M University and the author of Walt Whitman's Champion (1978), Emerson, Whitman and the American Muse (1982), Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself (1999) [Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography, 2000], Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Story (1986), and Lost in the Customhouse: Authorship in the American Renaissance (1993).His new book, The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser will be out this March. David S. ReynoldsDavid S. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography (1995) [Winner of the Bancroft Prize 1996; Finalist the National Book Critics Circle Award, 1996], Walt Whitman (2004; Oxford University Press "Lives and Legacies" Series), and Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville (1988), among numerous other books.He is the editor of Leaves of Grass: The 150th Anniversary Edition
(Oxford University Press, 2005) and A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman
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