Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda served as Virginia’s Poet Laureate from 2006-2008.  She is also a painter, sculptor and educator. In 1969, she graduated from Mary Washington College (now the University of Mary Washington) with a BA in English. She holds two masters degrees and a Ph.D. from George Mason University, where she …

Mook has produced the first English translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s third book of poems, Dream-Crowned,published in German in 1896 when Rilke was 21. Mook’s poems and translations have also appeared in Poet Lore, Literary Imagination, Poetry International, International Poetry Review, Unsplendid, and Rowboat, as well as in his book Travelers without Maps. He is Associate Professor …