Poetry: Best American Erotic Poems

Marc Cohen, Janice Erlbaum, Jennifer L. Knox, Ross Martin, Cate Marvin, Noah Michelson, Rachel Shukert, Maggie Wells, and editor David Lehman

Janice Erlbaum is the author of GIRLBOMB: A Halfway Homeless Memoir, and HAVE YOU FOUND HER: A Memoir. A former columnist for BUST magazine (that'sa magazine about feminism, not about boobs), she lives in her native New York City with her domestic partner and three fairly domestic cats.

Jennifer L. Knox was born in Lancaster, California-where absolutely anything can be made into a bong. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies The Best American Poetry (1997, 2003 and 2006), Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to Present, Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books, and The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present. She has taught poetry writing at New York University and Hunter College, and is available for children's parties, seances, and tradeshow booth demonstrations. For even more specious information, see www.jenniferlknox.com.

Cate Marvin's first book, World's Tallest Disaster, was chosen by Robert Pinksy for the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and published by Sarabande Books in 2001. In 2002, she received the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. Her poems have appeared in The New England Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Fence, The Paris Review, The Cincinnati Review, Slate, Verse, Boston Review, Ninth Letter and TriQuarterly. She is co-editor with poet Michael Dumanis of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books, 2006). Her second book of poems, Fragment of the Head of a Queen, was published by Sarabande in August 2007. A recent Whiting Award recipient and 2007 NYFA Gregory Millard Fellow, she teaches poetry writing in Lesley University's Low-Residency M.F.A. Program and is an associate professor in creative writing at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

Noah Michelson received his MFA from New York University.  He has published work in or has work forthcoming from The New Republic, Hunger Mountain, Cincinnati Review, National Poetry Review, and Cimmaron Review among others. He lives and works in New York City.