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J.T. Barbarese is the author of four books of poetry and a translation of Euripides’ The Children of Heracles. His latest collection, The Black Beach, was published in April 2005 by the University of North Texas Press. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Boulevard, The Georgia Review, The Denver Quarterly, The Cortland Review, Poetry Northwest, and Poetry, and have been anthologized in The Italian-American Reader (Morrow, 2003) and Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana; he has published translations (from French or Italian) in The Denver Quarterly and Boulevard, short fiction in Narrative and The North American Review, and critical essays and literary journalism in Tri-Quarterly, The Sewanee Review, Studies in English Literature, The Journal of Modern Literature, The New York Times, and The Columbia History of American Poetry (Columbia University Press, 1999). Beginning this year he will assume the position of editor of Story Quarterly, now headquartered at Rutgers University's Campus at Camden, New Jersey.