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Roy Bentley is the author of Walking with Eve in the Loved City, a finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, and Starlight Taxi, which won the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize. His other books include The Trouble with a Short Horse in Montana, Any One Man, and Boy in a Boat. He has received fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, the Ohio Arts Council, and the NEA.

Yuri Izdryk was born in western Ukraine, in Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk region, in 1962. One of Ukraine¿s most original and playful voices, Izdryk is a writer, musician, and visual and performance artist. He is the author of several books of prose and received wide critical acclaim for his 1997 experimental novel Wozzeck. In the past decade, Izdryk has primarily focused on poetry, which he featured in his livejournal blog ¿The Dead Diary.¿

Shann Ray grew up in Montana and Alaska and spent part of his childhood on the Northern Cheyenne reservation. He is the author of American Masculine, Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity, American Copper, and Balefire. A systems psychologist focusing on the psychology of men, he lives in Spokane with his wife and three daughters and teaches leadership and forgiveness studies at Gonzaga University.

Philip Memmer is the author of four previous collections of poems, including The Storehouses of the Snow: Psalms, Parables, and Dreams; Lucifer: A Hagiography, winner of the 2008 Idaho Prize for Poetry; Threat of Pleasure, winner of the 2008 Adirondack Literary Award; and Sweetheart, Baby, Darling. Twice a Hawthornden Fellow, he is executive director of the YMCA¿s Downtown Writers Center in Syracuse, New York, and also serves as associate editor for Tiger Bark Press.

Jason Gray is the author of Photographing Eden, winner of the 2008 Hollis Summers Prize. He has also published two chapbooks, How to Paint the Savior Dead and Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, Poetry Ireland Review, and many other places. Besides writing, he spends time taking pictures of things.

Julian Kornhauser, born in 1946 in Gliwice, is a Polish poet, prose writer, literary critic, essayist, translator, and professor emeritus of Slavic languages and literatures at the Jagiellonian University. One of the most prominent representatives of the New Wave or Generation ¿68 literary movement, he was active in underground political activities during the Communist period and signed the ¿Letter of 59¿ against changes to the Constitution of the People's Republic of Poland that would see the country align closer with USSR. He lives in Krak¿w. Piotr Florczyk¿s most recent books are East & West, a volume of poems, and two volumes of translations, My People & Other Poems by Wojciech Bonowicz, and Building the Barricade by Anna Swirszczynska. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California.

Yuri Andrukhovych is a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, essayist, and translator. His book-length works translated into English include the novels Recreations, The Moscoviad, Perverzion, and Twelve Rings, as well as a collection of essays My Final Territory. He lives in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. Vitaly Chernetsky is associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and director of the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Globalization and coeditor of Crossing Centuries: The New Generation in Russian Poetry. Ostap Kin is the editor of New York Elegies: Ukrainian Poetry on the City. Kin lives in Brooklyn, New York.

An anthology of poems from women who proudly celebrate their own nastiness and that of other women who have served as nasty role models; poems by and about women defying limitations and lady-like expectations; women refusing to be ΓÇ£nice girls;ΓÇ¥ women embracing their inner bitch when the situation demands it; women being formidable and funny; women speaking to power and singing for the good of their souls; women being strong, sexy, strident, super-smart, and stupendous; women who want to encourage little girls to keep dreaming.

The Way Summer Ends, Thomas MitchellΓÇÖs new full-length book of poems, takes us to places imagined and unimagined, on a quiet, powerful journey characterized by the poetΓÇÖs deftness of craft, strong imagery, and lyricism. These poems examine everyday people, places, and situations, where the reader discovers their uniqueness in ΓÇ£the dark moon shimmering in an empty whiskey glass,ΓÇ¥ ΓÇ£an empty chair, a dismantled clock, itΓÇÖs wheels and teeth forever disconnected,ΓÇ¥ or a soldier ΓÇ£listening to the song of an automatic, the staccato of a submachine gun." The authorΓÇÖs unwavering voiceΓÇöconfident, generous, and authenticΓÇöguides us every step of the way, and we understand this experience will endure with us.

Resonates with the theme of landscape as integral to the self, how our outer landscapes shape and reveal our inner landscapes

Offers the reader unique refreshment and perspective