Richard Deming is a poet and critic whose poems have appeared in Field, Sulfur, Mirage Period(ical) #4, Quarter After Eight, Indiana Review, Word for Word and other magazines, as well as in the anthology Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present, edited by David Lehman. He is the author of Somewhere Hereabouts, published in the A.bacus series by Potes and Poets Press. His first full-lenght collection of poetry, Let's Not Call it Consequence, will be published in 2008 by Shearsman Books. He is also the author of Listening on All Sides: Towards an Emersonian Ethics of Reading, forthcoming in 2007 from Stanford University Press. Currently he is a lecturer for the English Department at Yale University. A conversation between Deming and Roberto Tejada on poetics is available as part of the Rust Talks series at http://epc.buffalo.edu/ezines/rust/rustIII.pdf.See his personal website at http://www.phylumpress.com/richarddeming.

Nancy Kuhl is the author of the full-length poetry collection The Wife of the Left Hand (Shearsman Books, 2007). Her chapbook, In the Arbor, was winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize and was published by Kent State University Press. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Verse, Fence, Phoebe, Puerto del Sol, Cream City Review, The Journal and other magazines. She is Associate Curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series, and author of two exhibition catalogs published in 2003 by the library and distributed by the University Press of New England: Intimate Circles: American Women in the Arts (http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/awia/) and Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van Vechten’s Portraits of Women (http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/cvvpw/). See her personal website at http://www.phylumpress.com/nancykuhl.htm.