Contributors

Coleman Barks teaches poetry at the University of Georgia.

Yaël Bethiem lives in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Though bedridden, she teaches Re-Evaluation Counseling and leads support groups for survivors of child abuse.

Beth Bosk is the editor of New Settler Interview. She lives in Mendocino, California.

Louis Jenkins is the author of An Almost Human Gesture (Eighties/Ally Press). He lives in Duluth, Minnesota.

David Koteen lives in Eugene, Oregon. He writes: “I’m slow to move. Job, zero. What Ph.D. program would even consider me? Too much to risk. 11:30 a.m. I’m bare out of bed. This day hasn’t got a chance to change. My interview for a male go-go dancer promised, didn’t deliver. Little flabby, fella. Nice thought, though.”

John Moyne is a Persian scholar and professor of linguistics at the City University of New York.

Polly Nicole Passonneau, formerly an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, New York, lives, writes, and practices law in New York City.

Jalaluddin Rumi was a thirteenth-century poet and Sufi mystic.

Sy Safransky is editor of The Sun.