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James Tate is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the William Carlos Williams Award. His books include Ghost Soldiers, Return to the City of White Donkeys, and Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee: 44 Stories. His first volume, The Lost Pilot, was selected for The Yale Series of Younger Poets. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Alex Phillips was born in Concord, Massachusetts, in l977. He is poet in residence in Cushman Village, Amherst, and is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts. His book of poems, Crash Dome, is just out from Factory Hollow Press.

Star Black’s poems have been anthologized in The Penguin Book of The Sonnet, 110 Stories: New York Writers After September 11, and The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1880 to The Present. Her collages and hand-made books were recently shown at The Center for Book Arts. Her sixth volume of poetry,Velleity’s Shade, is scheduled for release in 2010.

Last reading of the series until 2011.