James Bland received a B.A. from Vassar and an M.F.A. from Cornell, and is completing a doctorate in English at Harvard. He has received an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Bread Loaf Writers Workshop scholarship, and MacDowell Colony residency. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Praxis, Callaloo, Key West Review, The Windless Orchard, Kenyon Review, and Columbia. (updated 1993)