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Jay Wright is a poet and playwright whose work focuses largely on personal biography, African American historical experience, and spiritual quests. Mr. Wright has been praised by critic Harold Bloom as "an authentic poet of the Sublime…laboring to make us forsake easier pleasures for more difficult pleasures." Mr. Wright was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and played semi-professional baseball before studying literature at the University of California at Berkeley and Rutgers University. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, his poetry books include Boleros, The Double Invention of Komo, Dimensions of History, and Soothsayers and Omens.

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Greg Glazner was born in Anson, Texas. After earning a B.A. from Hardin-Simmons University, he attended the University of Montana, where he received both an M.A. and M.F.A. He is the author of two books of poetry, Singularity (W.W. Norton, 1996) and From the Iron Chair (1992), which was chosen by Charles Wright for the 1991 Walt Whitman Award. His chapbook, Walking Two Landscapes, was published in 1984. A recipient of the Bess Hokin Award from Poetry, his poems have appeared in Ironwood, The Laurel Review, New England Journal, Pequod, Quarterly West, The Southern Poetry Review, and The Texas Review. Glazner is an associate professor and co-director of the creative writing program at the College of Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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