ABOUT THE POETS:
Jill Bialosky is the author of the poetry collections The End of Desire, Subterranean, and Intruder, and her poems have appeared in journals such as The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic Monthly. Bialosky is also the author of two novels, House Under Snow and The Life Room, and an editor at W. W. Norton. She lives in New York City.

Peter Cole’s most recent book of poems is Things on Which I’ve Stumbled. His many volumes of translations include The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950–1492, Aharon Shabtai’s J’accuse, Taha Muhammad Ali’s So What: New & Selected Poems, and Hebrew Writers on Writing. Cole, who lives in Jerusalem, was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2007.

Robert Polito’s most recent poetry collection is Hollywood & God. He received the National Book Critics Circle Award and an Edgar Award for Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson. Polito directs the Graduate Writing Program at the New School.

UPCOMING EVENTS:
Tuesday, December 1st, 6:30-7:30PM: Ron Padgett and Katha Pollitt