Leonard Schwartz & Barbara Henning November 9, 2005

Leonard Schwartz is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including The Tower of Diverse Shores, Words Before The Articulate, and most recently, Ear and Ethos, all from Talisman House. He is also the author of a collection of essays on poetics A Flicker At The edge Of Things: Essays on Poetics (Spuyten Duyvil). In recent years he has read from his work at international festivals, conferences and universities in China, Australia, Turkey, France, Belgium, Portugal, Russia, Argentina, and Peru, as well as at numerous venues in the US. He also hosts the radio program Cross Cultural Poetics. After living in New York City for 23 years, Barbara Henning has recently relocated to New Mexico. Her most recent book is a novel, You, Me and the Insects, published by Spuyten Duyvil in 2005. She is also the author of3 collections of poetry, Smoking in the Twilight Bar (United Artists,1988), Love Makes Thinking Dark (United Artists, 1995), Detective Sentences (Spuyten Duyvil, 2001); another novel Black Lace (Spuyten Duyvil, 2001); and three artist book collaborations, Words and Pictures (with Sally Young), The Passion of Signs (with Georgia Marsh, Leave Books), and How to Read and Write in the Dark (with Miranda Maher). She has had numerous poems and stories published in literary magazines and journals, including Poetry International, Fiction International, Shiny, The World, Talisman, and The Paris Review.