John Koethe’s most recent book of poems ia Sally’s Hair, and a new book, Ninety-Fifth Street, will be published in September by HarperCollins. He is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and last year was the Elliston Poet in Residence at the University of Cincinnati. He will spend the spring semester of 2010 at Princeton as the Bain-Swiggett Professor of Poetry.
Henri Cole’s Blackbird and Wolf contains some of the most truthful poems in modern American poetry. He is this year’s winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
