The Face Also Has Bruised Dignity

Bei Ling is a poet and essayist, as well as the founder and editor of the exile literary journal Tendency. He was awarded the PEN-U.S. West Freedom of Writing Award in 2000, the same year he was arrested in China for publishing and printing a literary journal and was expelled to the United States. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Republic, Chicago Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, AGNI, Southern Indiana Review, and Manoa. (2001)

Tony Barnstone is the son of prolific writer Willis Barnstone. His most recent book is Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki (BkMk Press, 2009), which won the John Cairdi Prize for Poetry. (updated 7/2010)

Willis Barnstone is a poet and distinguished professor of comparative literature at Indiana University. A former Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Professor, and Pulitzer Prize Finalist in poetry, he is the author of The Poetics of Translation: History, Theory, Practice (Yale University Press, 1993) and Algebra of the Night: New & Selected Poems, 1948–1998 (Sheep Meadow Press, 1999). His literary translation of the New Testament is forthcoming from Penguin Putnam. (updated 2001)

Xi Chuan is a Chinese poet who since 1985 has published poetry, essays, and translations and now works as an editor at the New China News Agency. (2001)