Poetry. Issue number 124, World News, features poetry by Dan Featherston. His work is political and uncompromising, voicing the plight of real humans in the crushing wake of modern war and industry. Poetry cannot block a bullet/ but it can bear witness/ to brutality/ thereby cultivating/ a flower in a graveyard. Dan Featherston will become the editor for ABACUS starting January 1, 2001. Stapled.

Author City: PHILADELPHIA, PA USA

Dan Featherston (Ph.D., University of Arizona) is a scholar of modern and contemporary American literature and a poet whose books include THE RADIANT WORLD (BlazeVox, 2009), THE CLOCK MAKER'S MEMOIR (Cuneiform Press, 2007), UNITED STATES (Factory School, 2005), and INTO THE EARTH (Quarry Press, 2005). Featherston's scholarly writing appears in a number of publications, including Modernism/Modernity, Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, Charles Olson: A Poet's Prose, The World in Time & Space: Towards a History of Innovative Poetry in Our Time, and Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century. He also served as assistant editor (2003-2004) of the Arizona Quarterly and editor (2001-2003) of A.BACUS, a journal of experimental poetry and translation. Featherston has taught courses in literature, creative writing, and composition at several universities. He has also guest lectured and given talks and readings throughout the United States. Featherston is currently a visiting assistant professor in the First-Year Writing Program at Temple University. He lives in Philadelphia with Rachel McCrystal and their companion animals Fredo, Mazzy, and Itze.