Situations, Sings

Born in Chicago, Collom began birdwatching at the age of 11. He graduated from Fraser (Colorado) High School, then attended Forestry School at State A&M. He joined the U.S. Air Force and wrote his first poems in Libya. Having earned an M.A. in English on the GI Bill, Collom has been a free-lance teacher (mostly as Poet, essayist, and translator Hejinian was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives in Berkeley. Her books include Writing is An Aid to Memory, My Life, Oxota: A Short Russian Novel, Leningrad, The Cell, The Cold of Poetry, and A Border Comedy; the University of California Press published a collection of her essays entitled The Language of Inquiry.