Bearing the Mask: Southwestern Persona Poems: 2 (Poetry of American Southwest, 2) - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Scott Wiggerman's Leaf and Beak: Sonnets, a finalist for the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Best Book of Poetry with the Texas Institute of Letters, is preceded by two previous collections - Presence, and Vegetables and Other Relationships. Wiggerman has served as editor of several books, including Wingbeats: Exercises & Practice in Poetry, Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku & Haiga, and Wingbeats II. Recent poems have appeared in Chrysanthemum, Red Earth Review, Frogpond, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Naugatuck River Review, and many other publications. He is co-founder and chief editor for Dos Gatos Press.

Cindy Huyser's chapbook, Burning Number Five: Power Plant Poems, was a co-winner of the 2014 Blue Horse Press Poetry Chapbook contest. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, her poetry has been published in a variety of journals and anthologies, most recently Untameable City, Blue Hole, and the anthology of the 2015 Houston Poetry Festival. Huyser co-edited the Texas Poetry Calendar from 2009 to 2014.

Carmen Tafolla, 2015 State Poet Laureate of Texas, is the author of more than twenty books and a Professor of Transformative Children's Literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Tafolla's work has been published in English, Spanish, German, French, and Bengali, and has been recognized by the National Association for Chicano Studies for "giving voice to the peoples and cultures of this land." She has received many recognitions, including the Américas Award, five International Latino Book Awards, and the Art of Peace, for work which contributes to peace, justice, and human understanding.