Paul Vangelisti and Dennis Phillips

Paul Vangelisti is the author of some twenty books of poetry, as well as being a noted translator from Italian. His new book of poems, Two, will appear from Talisman this fall. From 1971-1982 he was co-editor, with John McBride, of the literary magazine Invisible City and, from 1993-2002, edited Ribot, the annual report of the College of Neglected Science. He worked as a journalist at the Hollywood Reporter (1972-1974), and as Cultural Affairs Director at KPFK Radio (1974-1982). Currently, with Luigi Ballerini, he is editing a six-volume anthology of U.S. poetry from 1960 to the present, Nuova poesia americana, for Mondadori in Milan. Vangelisti is Founding Chair of the Graduate Writing program at Otis College of Art & Design.

Dennis Phillips is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Arena, Credence, Sand, and most recently Study for the Possibility of Hope (Pie in the Sky Press) and Studies in Fourteen Lines (Echo Park Press) . His work, both poetry and commentary, regularly appears in various national and local poetry journals. In 1998 he edited and wrote the introduction for a book on some of the early essays of James Joyce, Joyce On Ibsen. His novel, Hope, came out in 2007. Phillips was a founding editor of Littoral Books, which published works by authors such as Amiri Baraka, Norma Cole, Ray DiPalma, George Albon, and Stephen Ratcliffe. Besides his work with Littoral, over the years Phillips has contributed in various ways to other literary endeavors, including as the Book Review Editor of Sulfur, as Poetry Editor of the L.A. Weekly, as an enthusiastic staff member of the College of Neglected Science, and as the Director of the Beyond Baroque literary foundation. Most recently, with Martha Ronk, Phillips had been the poetry editor for the New Review of Literature. Phillips is a professor on the Humanities and Design Research faculty of Art Center College of Design, where he has been teaching literature and writing since 1979. Additionally, he is on the faculty of the Graduate Writing Program at Otis College of Art and Design. He lives in Pasadena, California.

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