because they who want it all will get just some.

because they who want a year will get just one good day.

because they who want many people will have just us.

because they who want to say so will just say so.

because they who want to look back will just know.

because they who want to think it over will just go.

because they who want to be new will just be.

To come ...

Jenny Browne is a former James Michener Fellow in Poetry at the University of Texas. She is the author of the chapbook, Glass, and two full collections, At Once, and The Second Reason. Her poems have been recently published or are forthcoming from American Poetry Review, AGNI Online, Bat City Review and Gulf Coast. She lives in downtown San Antonio and teaches at Trinity University.  

Jeff Dolven teaches English at Princeton University. His poems have appeared in the Paris Review, the TLS, the Yale Review, and elsewhere, and he is a co-organizer of Cabinet Magazine's Poetry Lab in Brooklyn.

Timothy Liu is the author of eight books of poems, most recently Polytheogamy and Bending the Mind Around the Dream's Blown Fuse. He lives in Manhattan.

Laura Mullen is a Professor at Louisiana State University. She is the author of three collections of poetry—The Surface, After I Was Dead, and Subject—and two hybrid texts, The Tales of Horror (Kelsey Street Press 1999), and Murmur (futurepoem books 2007). Prizes for her poetry include Ironwood’s Stanford Prize, and she has been awarded a Board of Regents ATLAS grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Award, among other honors. She has had several MacDowell Fellowships and is a frequent visitor at the Summer Writing Program at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa. Her poems have been widely anthologized and have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Octopus, 1913, Bomb, Hotel Amerika, the Corpse, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Her work is included in American Hybrid, just out from Norton. Recent prose has been collected in Civil Disobediences: Poetics & Politics in Action, and in other anthologies, and the Denver Quarterly recently published her essay on the poetry of John Yau. Jason Eckardt’s setting of “The Distance (This)” (from Subject) premiered at the Miller Theater in New York and was performed at the Musica Nova festival in Helsinki. She was invited to participate in the Taipei International Poetry Festival in 2009.

Matthew Rohrer is the author of They All Seemed Asleep (2008), Rise Up (2007) and A Green Light (2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin International Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Satellite (2001), Nice Hat. Thanks (2002, with Joshua Beckman) and A Hummock in the Malookas (W.W. Norton, 1994), a winner of the National Poetry Series.  He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Hopwood Award for Poetry and an M.F.A from the University of Iowa

Wendy S. Walters’ work resides at the intersection of the poem, essay and lyric drama. She is the author of Longer I Wait, More You Love Me (2009) and a chapbook, Birds of Los Angeles (2005), both published by Palm Press (Long Beach, CA).  Walters’ poetry has been recognized with residency fellowships from Breadloaf, MacDowell and Yaddo, and her poems have recently appeared in Callaloo, HOW2, Natural Bridge, Seneca Review and the Yalobusha Review, among several others.  Her lyric and personal essays have been published or are forthcoming in Seneca Review, Seattle Review, and Harper’s Magazine.

Laura Wetherington is a graduate of the University of Michigan's MFA program, and UC Berkeley's Undergraduate English Department. She has poems published in Bombay Gin, 21 Stars Review, Starfish Poetry, and Verse. She teaches at the New England Literature Program and co-edits the online journal textsound. When not thinking about poetry, she is thinking about the mysteries of living in a body.

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