KGB Bar

Douglas Kearney’s poetry has appeared in Callaloo, nocturnes, and Jubilat. A featured performer at the New York Public Theater among other venues, Kearney has received a fellowship from Cave Canem and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. His collection, Fear, some was published by Red Hen Press in 2006.

Jim Peterson’s fourth poetry collection, The Owning Stone, won The Benjamin Saltman Award and was published in 2000 by Red Hen Press.  His poetry has been widely published in such journals as Poetry, Georgia Review, Shenandoah, and Prairie Schooner, and was awarded a 2002-2003 Poetry Fellowship by the Virginia Arts Commission.  His first novel, Paper Crown, was published in 2005 by Red Hen.  He is currently Coordinator of Creative Writing at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College and lives in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Cate Marvin’s first book, World’s Tallest Disaster, was chosen by Robert Pinksy for the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and published by Sarabande Books in 2001. In 2002, she received the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. Her poems have appeared in The New England Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Fence, The Paris Review, The Cincinnati Review, Slate, Verse, Boston Review, and Ninth Letter. She is co-editor with poet Michael Dumanis of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books, 2006). Her second book of poems, Fragment of the Head of a Queen, was published by Sarabande in August 2007. A recent Whiting Award recipient and 2007 NYFA Gregory Millard Fellow, she teaches poetry writing in Lesley University’s Low-Residency M.F.A. Program and is an associate professor in creative writing at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

Eleanor Lerman’s first book of poetry, Armed Love, was published when she was 21. It was nominated for a National Book Award, but when it was reviewed in The New York Times, it was called X-Rated. Two years later she published Come the Sweet By and By. It would be twenty-five years until she wrote another book of poetry, The Mystery of Meteors, which was published by Sarabande Books in 2001. In 2005, Sarabande published her fourth book, Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds.