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Vol. 3, No. 1

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Eastern Washington University Press A SELECTION OF POETS Naveed Alam was born and raised in Pakistan. He attended college at Macalester and the University of Oregon. He now lives in Spanish Harlem and teaches English and creative writing at the City University of New York. A Queen of No Ordinary Realms, his first collection of poetry(Eastern University Press) won the Spokane Prize for Poetry. TWO POEMS. Robert Bly is a groundbreaking poet, editor, translator, storyteller and father of what he has called "the expressive men's movement". He lives in Minneapolis. Turkish Pears in August has just been published by Eastern University Press. TWO POEMS Emma Howell published her first poems at fifteen. She took writing workshops at Portland State University and was a creative writng major at Oberlin College, where she studied literature, language, folklore and African dance. She has studied in Spain and Brazil, where she died at the age of twenty. Slim Night of Recognition(Eastern University Press) is her first collection. THREE POEMS Veronique Tadjo, poet, novelist, painter, was born in Paris and raised in the Ivory Coast. She has written a series of reflections on the Rwanda genocide, The Sahdow of Imana (2000) and received a Prix UNICEF for her chidrens literature and a Grand Prix Litteraire d'Afrique Noire. She currently lives in Johannesburg. (Translator: Peter S.Thompson) SIX POEMS Carolyne Wright, author of Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire, is the winner of a Blue Lynx Prize for poetry and an Oklahoma Book Award. She has also published three volumes of poetry in translation from Spanish and Bengali. TWO POEMS Perry Higman, translator of Suenan. Lloran. Cantan. (They Dream.They Cry. They Sing): Poems for Children from Spain and Spanish America, is a professor of Spanish and Director of the Honors Program at Eastern Washington University. He has also published translations with City Lights and Takarajima Press. VIDEO