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Herman de Coninck (1944–1977) was a Flemish poet and essayist. In 2006, Oberlin College Press released a selection of his poems titled The Plural of Happiness, translated into English by Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Kurt Brown.

Kurt Brown is founding director of the Aspen Writers’ Conference, now in its thirtieth year, and of Writers’ Conferences & Centers, a national association of directors now in its sixteenth year. His poems have appeared in many literary periodicals. He is the editor of several anthologies of poetry and critical prose, including the forthcoming Conversation Pieces: Poems that Talk to Other Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets, 2007), co-edited with Harold Schechter. His poetry collections are Return of the Prodigals (Four Way Books, 1999), More Things in Heaven and Earth (Four Way Books, 2002), Fables from the Ark (WordTech, 2003), which won the Custom Words Prize, and Future Ship (Story Line Press, forthcoming in 2006). (updated 4/2006)

Laure-Anne Bosselaar is the author of three collections of poetry: The Hour Between Dog and Wolf (BOA, 1997), Small Gods of Grief (BOA, 2001), and A New Hunger (Ausable, 2007). (updated 6/2010)