Jared Carter’s most recent book is Cross this Bridge at a Walk from Wind Publications in Kentucky. His work has appeared in Stand, Agenda, Outposts Poetry Quarterly, The Dark Horse, Eyewear, and Nth Position. Additional poems and stories may be found on his web site at http://www.jaredcarter.com

David W. Landrum is professor of Humanities at Cornerstone University, Grand Rapids, Michigan. His poetry and short stories have been published in Contemporary Sonnet, The Barefoot Muse, Measure, The New Formalist, and many other magazines and journals. He edits the on-line poetry journal, Lucid Rhythms.














 

A BETTER INDICTMENT 

THE POET DULY TAKES NOTE OF HIS CRITICS

SALEMI VS. THE STATE OF POETRY

Jared Carter’s first collection of poems, Work, for the Night is Coming, won the Walt Whitman Award for 1980. His second, After the Rain, received the Poets’ Prize for 1994. His third, Les Barricades Mystérieuses, appeared in 1999.  All three volumes are available from Cleveland State University Poetry Center. His fourth book, Cross this Bridge at a Walk, is from Wind Publications in Kentucky.

 David Lee Garrison teaches Spanish, Portuguese, and comparative literature at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.  He has led writing workshops at various other colleges and universities.  His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in a number of literary journals.  His co-edited anthology, O Taste and See: Food Poems (Bottom Dog Press), won the 2004 American Poetry Anthology Award from Pudding House Press.  Two poems from his latest book, Sweeping the Cemetery (Browser Books), were read by Garrison Keillor on his nationally syndicated radio program, The Writer’s Almanac.