Alan Gilbert and Cole Swensen

Introduced by Ethan Nosowsky (Consultant for Literature at Creative Capital and Editor at Large for Graywolf Press)
Alan Gilbert is the author of Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight (Wesleyan University Press, 2006), a collection of writings on contemporary poetry and visual art. His reviews have appeared in a variety of publications, including Artforum, Bookforum, The Believer, Modern Painters, and the Village Voice; his poems have appeared in BOMB, Boston Review, Chicago Review, and The Nation, among other places.

Cole Swensen’s books of poetry include The Book of a Hundred Hands, Goest, Noon and New Math. Her awards include a PEN Literary Award for Translation, a Pushcart Prize, an Iowa Prize for Poetry and a San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award. Her book Greensward is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse.