Eratosphere - Moderator Announcement

Dear Erastophereans,

It is my pleasure to announce an encore performance from a popular Eratospherean, co-moderating the Deep End with Stephen who's been going it solo there for a while, and doing it with commendable dedication and expertise. Drum rolls for the much welcome return of Catherine Chandler as co-moderator of the Metrical Poetry - Deep End forum.

I am equally pleased to announce a brand new moderator to co-moderate Metrical with Lance Levens. Lance has also been going at it solo for a while and keeps doing an outstanding job there. Drum rolls now for W. F. Lantry, our new co-moderator for the Metrical Poetry forum.

As you can see from the following, both of our new moderators are emininently qualified in terms of critical and writing skills:

~~~~~~~~~~

Catherine Chandler is an American poet, teacher and translator. Her poems and translations have been published in numerous journals and anthologies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. A multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee and twice finalist in the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Competition, Catherine is the author of two chapbooks, For No Good Reason and All or Nothing, and is co-editor of Passages (The Greenwood Centre for Living History, 2010). Her first full-length collection of poetry, Lines of Flight, is forthcoming from Able Muse Press in 2011.

~~~~~~~~~~

W.F. Lantry is a native of San Diego, California, where he worked with Carolyn Forché, and later founded and edited Eye Prayers, a small press journal of poetry. After leaving California, he taught at L'Université de Nice in France where he was awarded his License and Maîtrise. While in Nice, he participated in Interspace, a project seeking to unify Poetry, Philosophy, Music and Visual Art. As part of the Interspace project, he gave poetry readings in Nice, Paris, Rome and Monte Carlo. During this time, he won the Paris/Atlantic Young Writers Award.

On returning to the United States, he received a Fellowship to study at Boston University, where he worked with Derek Walcott and George Starbuck. After receiving his M.A. in English and Creative Writing, he began studies at the University of Houston where he worked with Donald Barthelme, James Robison, Ed Hirsch, Mary Robison and Adam Zagajewski. He was the first in the program to be awarded a double Ph. D, one in the writing of fiction, and one in poetry.

He has taught at 12 different Universities on two continents in a variety of fields, most often Literature and Rhetoric, but also in History, Library Science, World Civilizations and Information Technology. Beginning in 1997, he served as Director of Academic Technology at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.

He has been widely published abroad, including journals in England, France, Germany, Sweden, India, China, Syria, Israel and Texas. His work has been translated into French, Arabic and Italian. He was a finalist for the 2009 Premio Mundial Fernando Rielo de Poesía Mística, and in 2010 won the Lindberg Foundation International Poetry for Peace Prize (in Israel), Crucible Editors' Poetry Prize, Comment Magazine Poetry Prize, and the CutBank Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry. The UMB William Joiner Center named him a runner-up for the Ellen LaForge Poetry Prize. He was also selected in 2010 as a finalist in more than 20 competitions, including the Southwestern Review Morton Marr Prize, Hunger Mountain Ruth Stone Prize, Arts & Letters Rumi Prize, Southeast Review Poetry Award, River Styx International Poetry Prize and the Permafrost Midnight Sun Poetry Chapbook Competition. The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine at the University of Warwick (UK) commended his entry into the Open International Competition, he received an Honorable Mention for the Prairie Fire Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award (Canada), and he was a finalist for the Hong Kong University Poetry Book Prize (China) and the Aesthetica Creative Works Competition (UK).

He has given readings of his poetry in California, Massachusetts, Texas, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, DC. He was the founding featured author of Eclectica, an early contributor to Gulf Coast, and recently his work has appeared in numerous journals both online and in print, including Prairie Fire, Ellipsis, Unsplendid, Kritya Journal of Poetry, protestpoems.org: Writing for Human Rights, Poets for Living Waters, Soundzine, The Lyric, Sixty-Six, Poesia, Damazine, The French Literary Review, The Literary Bohemian, Istanbul Literary Review, Verse Wisconsin, Interrobang Magazine, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Now Culture, Literal Latté, The Texas Poetry Calendar, Permafrost, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Blip (formerly Mississippi Review online) and is forthcoming in Kestrel, The James Dickey Review, SOL: English Writing in Mexico, Poetry Salzburg Review (Austria) and Blood & Honey Review (Bosnia). His first collection of poetry, The Language of Birds, will be published by Finishing Line Press in the Fall.

~~~~~~~~~~

Please join me in giving a hearty Eratosphere welcome to Caty and Bill!

Cheers,

...Alex