In my Advanced Poetry Workshop, I’ve prefaced the current semester with an examination of several critical essays in the hope that my students and I might gain something like a grip on what our current period’s fashionable style looks and acts like, and why. 
T.R. Hummer is the author of 11 books of poetry and prose, most recently The Infinity Sessions: Poems 
James Richardson's most recent book, Interglacial: New and Selected Poems and Aphorisms, was a finalist for the 
Ellen Doré Watson is a poet and translator and the author of four books of poetry, most recently, This Sharpening, 
Anna Journey is the author of the collection, If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting (University of Georgia Press, 2009), 
Gabrielle Piedad Ponce received her M.F.A. from The Johns Hopkins University, where she is currently a doctoral
Rhett Iseman Trull's first book of poetry, The Real Warnings (Anhinga Press, 2009), received the 2008 Anhinga 
A. E. Stringer is the author of Channel Markers. A new collection, Human Costume, is out from Salmon Poetry (2009). 
Laura McCullough has four collections of poetry, Panic, winner of the 2009 Kinereth Gensler Award and forthcoming 
Steve Scafidi is the author of two collections from LSU Press: For Love of Common Words and Sparks From a Nine-Pound 
Dan Stryk lives among the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia, in Bristol. He has published a number of 
David Rigsbee is the author of seven previous full-length collections of poems, and his The Red Tower: New & 
dawn lonsinger received her MFA at Cornell University. She is now pursuing a doctorate at the University of Utah, 