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Jerry Harp
Jerry Harp's books of poems are Creature (Salt Publishing 2003), Gatherings (Ashland Poetry Press 2004), and Urban Flowers, Concrete Plains (Salt Publishing 2006). He is co-editor of A Poetry Criticism Reader (University of Iowa Press 2006). His study of cognition in the Renaissance, "Constant Motion": Ongian Hermeneutics and the Shifting Ground of Early Modern Understanding, is forthcoming from Hampton Press. He is currently at work on a book-length study of the poetry of Donald Justice. He teaches at Lewis & Clark College.
Víctor Rodríguez Núñez
Víctor Rodríguez Núñez is one of Cuba's most noteworthy contemporary writers. He has published eleven books of poetry, many of them recipients of literary awards, including the David Prize (Cuba, 1980), the Plural Prize (Mexico, 1983), the EDUCA Prize (Costa Rica, 1995), the Renacimiento Prize (Spain, 2000), and most recently the Fray Luis de León Prize (Spain, 2005) and the Leonor Poetry Prize (Spain, 2006). His poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, Mid-American Review, Chelsea, New York Quarterly, The Literary Review, New England Review, Circumference, Salt Hill, and many others nationally and internationally. He currently teaches Spanish at Kenyon College.