Jan Lee Ande lives in La Jolla, California, and teaches at The Union Institute. Her poetry has appeared in New Letters, Image, Mississippi Review, and Nimrod-for which she was a Pablo Neruda Prize finalist. Poems are forthcoming in the anthology The Community of Saints (Story Line Press). Neil Azevedo lives in New York City with his wife, Holly and their two boys, Myles and Owen. Sean Brendan-Brown is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a former poetry editor for the Georgetown Review. He received an NEA in '97 and has published with The Madison Review, Confrontation, Barnabe Mountain Review, Maryland Review, Nightsun, Poetry Ireland Review, and the anthology Community of Saints (to be released by Texas A&M Press). Yanbing Chen obtained his MFA in fiction writing at Notre Dame. In recent years he has become well known as a translator of Bei Dao and other contemporary Chinese poets. He is now a graduate student in the translation program at the University of Iowa. Sharon Cournoyer is a graduate student at Villanova University, living in Pennsylvania. This is her first appearance in print. Robert Crawford's collections of poems include A Scottish Assembly (Chatto, 1990), Talkies (Chatto, 1992), Masculinity (Cape, 1 996), and Spirit Machines (Cape, 1999). With Simon Armitage he co-edited The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945 (1998). He is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Kevin Di Camillo is doctoral research fellow in English literature at Saint John's University, New York City. His books of poetry Why I Drive Alfa Romeos & Other Excuses and Of The Hours were both published in 1997. He lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. John Engels' latest collections are Big Waters (1994) and Sinking Creek (1997), both by Lyons Books. New work is forthcoming in Kenyon Review and Sewanee Review. A new collection, Exiles, is in progress and includes "Heron" and "The Orders." Rob Faivre is a graduate of the University of Vermont and Syracuse University. He has taught in the English Division and the Developmental Studies and College Survival programs at Adirondack Community College since 1993. Ed Falco's most recent collection of stories won the Richard Sullivan Prize from the University of Notre Dame. His stories have been included in the Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize annuals, and have been published widely in journals including The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy and Triquarterly. Robert Hahn is the author of All Clear (University of South Carolina Press, 1997) and is president of Johnson State College in Vermont. His poetry appears widely and may also be found in recent or forthcoming issues of Shenandoah, Southwest Review, Partisan Review, and Yale Review. Corrinne Clegg Hales teaches creative writing and American literature in the MFA program at California State University, Fresno. Recent poems have appeared in The North American Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner. Samuel Hazo is the author of books of poetry, fiction, essays and plays, as well as the Director of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he is also McAnutly Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Duquesne University. His latest books are The Holy Surprise Of Right Now (poetry), The Rest Is Prose (essays), Stills (fiction), and Feather (play). He has been a National Book Award finalist and was chosen the first State Poet of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by Govenor Robert Casey in 1993, a position he still holds. George Held frequently publishes book reviews and poems in literary journals, including American Book Review, Confrontation, and The Wallace Stevens Journal. His poetry chapbooks include Winged (1995) and Salamander Love and Others (1998). He teaches English at Queens College and co-edits The Ledge. Christie Hodgen lives in Louisville, Kentucky. Her fiction has appeared in Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops 1999 and The Texas Review, and was awarded first prize in the 1995 Ernest Hemingway Days Festival Short Story Contest. "Raised Arms" is the first in a collection of related stories. Teresa Iverson's poems and translations (from the poetry of German author Gottfried Benn) have appeared in AGNI, Boston Review, Partisan Review, Delos, The New Criterion, Orion Magazine and elsewhere; also in Katherine Washburne's anthology World Poetry. In 1995 she co-edited the anthology In Time: Women's Poetry from Prison. Alison Jarvis is a psychotherapist in private practice who lives and works in Manhattan. She received the 1998 Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America. Diane Mehta's work is appearing this spring in Agni, the Harvard Review, and Open City. She is a New York-based poet and critic. Harriet McBryde Johnson is a lawyer in Charleston, South Carolina. She has published articles and essays in legal and disability-rights periodicals and is working on a novel about growing up with a disability. This is her first published work of fiction. David Katz's poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Southwest Review, Shenandoah, The New Republic, and other publications. He is the author of The Warrior in the Forest (House of Keys), a book of poems. He lives in New York and works as a journalist. Linda A. Kinnahan lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and daughter, where she teaches at Duquesne University. Her other publications include Poetics of the Feminine: Literary Tradition and Authority in William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Denise Levertov, and Kathleen Fraser, and numerous articles on twentieth-century American and British poetry. John Latta's poetry appears or is forthcoming in Chicago Review, The Iowa Review, Gettysburg Review, The Paris Review, Seneca Review, American Letters & Commentary, Lingo, Sulfur, Mike & Dale's Younger Poets, and elsewhere. The poems that appear in this issue of the Notre Dame Review are from a manuscript titled Breeze. Kelly Le Fave is currently a student in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her poems have appeared in the Salt Hill Journal and Southwestern Review. Orlando Ricardo Menes teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Illinois in Chicago. His poems have appeared, or will appear, in such magazines as Ploughshares, Callaloo, The Antioch Review, and Chelsea. The poem published in this issue is part of a new manuscript entitled Rumba Atop the Stones. G.E. Murray's last two books of poetry are Walking the Blind Dog (University of Illinois Press) and Oils of Evening: Journeys in the Art Trade (Lake Shore Press). He is co-editing Illinois Voices: An Anthology of 20th Century Poetry from Illinois, due in 2000 from University of Illinois Press. John Peck published M and Other Poems with TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern U.P. in 1996, his sixth book. Don Pollack is represented by galleries through out the United States and Canada. He teaches design at the Illinois Institute of Art in Chicago. Kevin Prufer is the author of Strange Wood, winner of the Winthrop Poetry Series Award, now available through LSU Press. He is also editor of Imperfect Paradise: New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000) and Pleiades: The Journal of New Writing. His newest poems appear in Boulevard, Antioch Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. Kelly Ritter received her MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and her PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work has appeared in Bloomsbury Review, CutBank, Greensboro Review, Hawaii Review, No Roses Review, Northwest Review and others, and is forthcoming in Karamu. She teaches writing and film studies at the University of Michigan, and lives in Ann Arbor with her husband. Peter Robinson has published four books of poetry, the most recent being Lost and Found (Carcanet Press, 1997). A volume of his critical writings, In the Circumstances: About Poems and Poets, appeared from OUP in 1992. With John Kerrigan, he has edited The Thing About Roy Fisher: Critical Studies (Liverpool University Press, 1999). Jason Salavon's work has been highlighted most recently at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Arts and in Art in America. David Sanders is the director of Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. A limited edition of his poetry, Time in Transit, appeared in 1995 from The Literary House Press. Melita Schaum teaches modern literature and creative writing at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her poetry has appeared in such journals as The Denver Quarterly, The Literary Review, The New York Quarterly, and Prism International. She is the author of two books of criticism on Wallace Stevens and two books on women's studies. Tom Smith has a wife, two sons, three grandsons, a flower garden, and many publications. These are his passions in a pumpkin shell. David Starkey teaches at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, and will be a Fulbright Senior Scholar in American Literature at the University of Oulu, Finland, in Fall 1999. He is the editor and author of several books, most recently a textbook entitled Poetry Writing: Theme and Variations. Lee Upton's third book of poems, Approximate Darling, was published by the University of Georgia Press. Her third critical study, The Muse of Abandonment, appeared in fall 1998 from Bucknell University Press. Eugene Wildman teaches in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A recipient of three Illinois Arts Council awards for fiction, his work has appeared in various magazines and several anthologies. He is the author of two experimental novels, Montezuma's Ball and Nuclear Love, and is the editor of Anthology of Concretism, the first collection of visual poetry to appear in this country. He is a former editor of the Chicago Review. "Atlantis" is part of a just-completed collection of related stores, Todd in Venice. Baron Wormser's fourth book of poetry, WHEN, was published in 1997 by Sarabande Books. He is a Guggenheim Fellow for 1998-1999.