Laurence Lieberman
Laurence Lieberman is professor emeritus of English, University of Illinois.
He serves as advisory editor for the Caribbean Writer magazine. He founded
the Illinois Poetry Series in 1971 and has served as the poetry editor of the
University of Illinois Press since that time. He has published l4 books of
poetry and three books of criticism, most recently Carib’s Leap: Selected
and New Poems of the Caribbean (Peepal Tree Press, Leeds, England, 2005), Hour
of the Mango Black Moon (Peepal Tree, 2004), Flight from the Mother
Stone (University
of Arkansas Press, 2000), The Regatta in the Skies: Selected Long Poems (University
of Georgia Press, l999), and Beyond the Muse of Memory: Essays on Contemporary
American Poetry (University of Missouri Press, l995). His poems have appeared
in such journals as The Atlantic Monthly, The American Poetry Review, The
Kenyon Review, The South Carolina Review, The New Republic, Sewanee Review,
Colorado Review, Five Points, and Shenandoah, as well as in anthologies such as The
Body Electric (Norton, 2000), American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement (University
of Iowa Press, 200l), Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad (Ninebark
Press, 2007), and The Best American Poetry.
Fall
2009