In this installment, Illya Kaminsky performs “The Tyger” by William Blake. Kaminsky was born in Odessa, formerly of the Soviet Union, in 1977, and arrived to the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the American government. He is the author of Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004) which won the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, and the 2005 Poetry Book of the Year from ForeWord Magazine. Ilya has served as a Writer In Residence at Phillips Exeter Academy and worked as a Law Clerk at Bay Area Legal Aid, and National Immigration Law Center. He lives in Berkeley, California. For more information, please visit his website at: http://www.ilyakaminsky.com/

In this installment, Geoffrey Brock reads “To Sleep” by John Keats. Brock is the author of Weighing Light (Ivan R. Dee, 2005) and the translator of books by Cesare Pavese, Roberto Calasso, and Umberto Eco. He has held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and he is on the faculty of the Programs in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas. His website is www.geoffreybrock.com.

In this installment, Robert Cording reads “To Autumn” by John Keats. Cording teaches English and creative writing at Holy Cross College. His fifth collection of poems, Common Life, is forthcoming in April 2006 from CavanKerry Press.

In this installment, Rigoberto González reads “Thoughts on my sick-bed” by Dorothy Wordsworth. González is the author of four books, So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water until It Breaks, a 1998 National Poetry Series selection; two bilingual children's books, Soledad Sigh-Sighs / Soledad Suspiros and Antonio's Card / La Tarjeta de Antonio; and a novel, Crossing Vines. He has three titles forthcoming: Butterfly Boy, a memoir; Other Fugitives and Other Strangers, poetry; and a biography of Chicano writer Tomas Rivera. He is Associate Professor of English and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and is Contributing Editor to Poets & Writers magazine.

In this installment, Caroline Bergvall reads Percy Bysshe Shelly’s “Mont Blanc,” accompanied with music by Mario Diaz de León, “Pervaded with that Ceaseless Motion.” Bergvall is a poet and performance artist based in London, England. Her most recent collection of poetic and performance pieces, FIG (Goan Atom 2) has recently been published by Salt Publishing. Her CD of readings and audiotexts, Via: Poems 1994-2004 (Rockdrill 8 ) is available through Carcanet. She develops live readings, performances, collaborative pieces, both in Europe and in North America. She is Research Fellow at Dartington College of Arts (Devon) and co-Chair of the MFA Writing Faculty, Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard College (NY). For more information about Bergvall click here. Mario Diaz de León is a composer currently living in Brooklyn, NY, where he writes chamber music for instruments and electronics, collaborates with Jay King in the audiovisual duo King/Diaz de León, and plays improvised music. He holds a B.M. in TIMARA (Technology in Music and Related Arts) from the Oberlin Conservatory, and is a recipient of the 2005 Meet the Composer / Van Lier Fellowship.