Martiny - A companion to poetic genre

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Hlne Aji is Professor of American poetry at the Universit du Maine (France). In addition to a number of articles on modernist and contemporary American poetry, she is the author of Ezra Pound et William Carlos Williams: pour une potique amricaine (LHarmattan, 2001), William Carlos Williams: un plan daction (Belin, 2004) and a book-length essay on Ford Madox Fords The Good Soldier (Armand Colin, 2005). Recently she edited LImpersonnel en littrature (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2008) and, with Helen M. Dennis, an issue of the European Journal of English Studies on Reading the Modernist Past.

Andy Brown is a lyric poet, editor, and a critic. He is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. His poetry books include Goose Music (Salt, 2008, co-written with John Burnside); The Storm Berm (Tall Lighthouse, 2008); Fall of the Rebel Angels: Poems 1996-2006 (Salt, 2006); and five previous volumes of poetry. His forthcoming book of poems is On the Threshold . He has also edited two collections of correspondences with contemporary writers, Binary Myths 1&2 (Stride, 2004). His criticism has most recently appeared in The Salt Companion to Lee Harwood .

Stephen Burt is Professor of English at Harvard. His most recent books include The Art of the Sonnet , with David Mikics (Harvard University Press, 2010), Close Calls with Nonsense (Graywolf, 2009), and Parallel Play , a collection of poems (Graywolf, 2006): he is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books , the Boston Review , and other journals in the US and UK.

David Caplan is Associate Professor of English at Ohio Wesleyan University and the author of Questions of Possibility: Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form (Oxford University Press, 2004), Poetic Form: An Introduction (Longman, 2006), and In the World He Created According to His Will (poems) (University of Georgia Press, 2010). He serves as a contributing editor to the Virginia Quarterly Review and Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing , and is an affiliated researcher at the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Potique Applique at the University of Lige. His essays on poetry and poetics have appeared widely in America and Europe. His current project is Rhymes Challenge (Oxford University Press).

Jennifer Clarvoe is Professor of English at Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio. Her first book of poems, Invisible Tender , won the Poets Out Loud Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. In 20022003, she held the Rome Prize in Literature at the American Academy in Rome. Her second book of poems, Counter-Amores , is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in 2011.