Alex Jovanovich is an artist and critic who lives in the Bronx. A selection of his work was recently featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. He currently has work in "Tomorrow's Man," a group exhibition curated by Jack Pierson at Galerie Thaddeus Ropac in Salzburg. He is a regular contributor to Artforum.

Alex Jovanovich is Guest Editor of Edition: Charm School

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Alex Jovanovich is a Nominator in NOMINATOR/NOMINEE

Amrita Pritam was born in 1919 in Pakistan. She is considered one of the first and most prominent female Punjabi poets, novelists, and essayists. In her career of over 60 years, she wrote 28 novels, 18 anthologies of prose, five short stories, and 16 miscellaneous prose volumes. She has been awarded the Bhartiya Jnanpith, one of India’s highest literary award, in 1982; the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, in 1969; the Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award and the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest literary award, both in 2004.

D.H. Tracy is the author of Janet’s Cottage, forthcoming from St. Augustine’s Press. He lives in Illinois. Mohan Tracy is D.H. Tracy’s mother. Punjabi is her mother tongue. She learned Gurmukhi (a script for Punjabi in which Amrita Pritam wrote) from her grandmother when growing up in Malaysia.

Their translations of Amrita Pritam’s “A Letter” and “Empty Space” first appeared in the June 2011 issue of "Poetry Magazine".

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Antoine de Chandieu was born near Macon, France, in 1534. He was a pastor, theologian, polemicist, community organizer, and occasional poet who played a key role in the establishment of the Protestant Church in France.

Nate Klug was born in Minnesota and grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He attended Roxbury Latin in West Roxbury, MA (graduated 2004), and went on to study English at the University of Chicago (graduated 2008). He is currently a Master of Divinity student at Yale Divinity School and is a candidate for ordained ministry in the United Church of Christ. His poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in the Christian Century, Literary Imagination, Poetry, the Yale Review, and Zoland Poetry Annual.

From "Octonaires on the World's Vanity and Inconstancy" first appeared in the June 2011 issue of "Poetry Magazine".

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Azealia Banks was born in 1991 in Harlem, New York. She was recently named #1 on NME’s 2011 Cool List. She has just signed to Universal Records and “212” featuring Lazy Jay is her debut single. She also collaborated with Scissor Sisters and Alex Ridha from Boys Noize on Scissor Sister’s latest release “Shady Love”.

www.azealiabanksforever.com

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Broadcast was formed in 1995 in Birmingham, England and originally consisted of Trish Keenan, Roj Stevens, Tim Felton, and James Cargill. They have released three albums, several EPs, two singles and EP collections. Trish Keenan suddenly and tragically passed away from pneumonia on January 14, 2011 at the age of 42. These songs are featured as a tribute to her and the entire Broadcast band.

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Carlo Betocchi was born in Turin in 1899. He founded the Catholic-oriented magazine Il Frontespizio with Piero Bargellini in 1929. Betocchi is the author of several poetry collections including "L’Estate di San Martino (Summer of Saint Martino)", "Un Passo un altro passo (A Step, Another Step)", "Prime e Ultimissime (First and Last Ones)", and "Poesie del Sabato (Sabbath Poems)". His collected works, Tutte Le Poesie, was published in 1984. Betocchi died in Bordighera in 1986 and is considered to be one of the major Italian poets of the twentieth century.

Brock's first book of poetry, "Weighing Light", appeared in late 2005. His poems have appeared in journals including Poetry, Paris Review, and Hudson Review. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford from 2002–2004 and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library during the 2010–2011 academic year. Brock is currently working on a second collection of poems and editing "The FSG Book of 20th-century Italian Poetry". He teaches at The University of Arkansas Programs in Creative Writing and Translation in Fayetteville, where he lives with his wife, the writer Padma Viswanathan, and their children, Ravi and Mira. (Courtesy of the translator.)

www.geoffreybrock.com

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Joseph Campbell was born in 1904 in New York. He received his Bachelors Degree from Columbia University in 1925 and his Masters Degree in 1927. He was then awarded a Proudfit Traveling Fellowship to continue his studies at the University of Paris. He was best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His philosophy is often summarized by the phrase: “Follow your bliss.” He passed away in 1987.

Excerpted from "A Joseph Campbell Companion", selected and edited by Diane K. Osbon and published by HarperCollins in 1991.

www.jcf.org

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Juhan Liiv was born in 1864 in Estonia. His first and most famous short story, Vari (The Shadow), was published in 1894. A book of 495 of his poems was published in 1909. In 1965, The Juhan Liiv Prize for Poetry was founded and is awarded by the parish of Alatskivi on April 30^th of every year.

These works were translated by Juri Talvet and H.L. Hix.

 “Music” and “Leaves Fell” first appeared in the June 2011 issue of "Poetry Magazine".

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Kit Webster was born in Australia and attended RMIT University in Melbourne. His works have been featured at the Museum of Saint-Breuic and Scopitone Festival in France, Bâtiment d’art Contemporain in Geneva, and the Museum of Image and Sound in Sao Paulo. In 2011, Webster was a sponsored artist at the Fringe Festival Atlas Project.

www.kitwebster.com

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Liang Yue was born in Shanghai in 1979. She has exhibited at the BizArt Center in Shanghai, the Foto Museum Province of Antwerp, Kunstverein in Heidelberg, Germany, PS1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, NY, Chambers Fine Art in New York, and The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo. She is represented by ShangArt Gallery in Shanghai.

Excerpt from Gagarin, Tenth Edition (www.gagarin.be).

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Mark Strand was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1934, and was raised and educated in the United States and South America. He is the author of eleven books of poems, including Dark Harbor (1993), The Continuous Life (1990), The Late Hour (1978), The Story of Our Lives (1973), and Sleeping with One Eye Open (1964). He has also published three books of prose, three volumes of translations, two monographs on contemporary artists, and three books for children. He has edited a number of volumes, including The Making of a Poem (2000), The Golden Ecco Anthology (1994), The Best American Poetry 1991, and Another Republic: 17 European and South American Writers (with Charles Simic, 1976). His honors include the Bollingen Prize, the Bobbit Prize, three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Edgar Allen Poe Prize, a Rockefeller Foundation award, and the Wallace Stevens Prize, as well as fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. He has served as Poet Laureate of the United States and is a former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets.

Exclusive readings recorded for Dream The End on October 19, 2011, from Mark Strand’s upcoming new release Almost Invisible, published by Knopf.

Mark Strand is featured in Edition: Refresh! and Edition: Small Wonder

Nathanael West was born in New York City in 1903. He was an author, famous for “Miss Lonelyhearts (1933)” and “The Day of the Locust (1939)”. He later worked as a screenwriter for Republic studios, collaboratively writing “Five Came Back (1939)” and “I Stole a Million (1939)”. He passed away in 1940.

Excerpted from "Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust", published by New Directions Paperback in 1962.

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Prinzhorn Dance School consists of British artists Tobin Prinz and Suzi Horn, known for their experimental, post-punk sound. The band's name finds inspiration from Dr. Hans Prinzhorn, who collected the art of mentally ill patients under his care. They released their self-recorded and self-produced single in 2006, under the music label DFA. Prinzhorn Dance School is currently working on their second album.

www.prinzhorn-dance-school.com

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Tony Conrad was born in 1940 in New Hampshire. He is recognized as an experimental film maker, composer, musician, and sound artist. He began to work in video and performance in the 1970s as a professor at Antioch College in Ohio. His most famous film is “The Flicker (1966)” and is considered to be a key early work of the structural film movement. His work has been shown at many museums including The Whitney Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and MoMA PS1 in New York. Conrad is also known as being indirectly responsible for the name of The Velvet Underground, although he was not an actual member of the famous group. Lou Reed and John Cale found a book entitled The Velvet Underground, which had belonged to Conrad, after moving into his old apartment on Ludlow Street in New York City.

http://tonyconrad.net

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William Blake was born in London in 1757. He apprenticed under engraver James Basire for seven years and then studied at the Royal Academy. His most popular collection “Songs of Innocence” was published in 1789, in which he combined both text and pictures on one engraved plate. He continued creating books throughout his life and found admirers in the water-colorists of the next generation in 1818. He died in 1827.

Excerpted from "Blake's Poetry and Designs", selected and edited by Mary Lynn Johnson and John E. Grant, published by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. in 1979.

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