Poet and Editor Jane Sprague is a poet and editor of Palm Press. Her poems, essays and reviews of contemporary poetry have been published in many print and online journals including Columbia Poetry Review, Kiosk, Tarpaulin Sky, How2, Jacket and others. She is the author of THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES (Chax Press, 2009) and Extreme Global: La Ciudad sin Extremo/Los Angeles, forthcoming from ChainLinks. She is the recipient of a NYFA grant as an Artist in the School Community at Cornell University and NYSCA grants for her curatorial and performance work. She has taught writing in public school classrooms as a teaching artist for Lincoln Center's Institute for Aesthetic Education, at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women (in conjunction with Bank Street College), and at several colleges in Southern California. She is recently edited the collection IMAGINARY SYLLABI (Palm Press, 2011), a pedagogical project documenting and exploring the potential and actual work of innovative and radical strategies for teaching writing.