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Fred Marchant is the author of four poetry collections. His most recent book, *The Looking House*, was selected by the Barnes and Noble Review as one of the five best books of poetry in 2009. He is also the editor of *Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford 1937-1947*, and the co-translator, with Nguyen Ba Chung, of *From a Corner of My Yard* by Vietnamese poet Tran Dang Khoa. A 2009 co-recipient of the May Sarton Award from the NEPC, he is the director of the Creative Writing Program and the Poetry Center at Suffolk University. Photo credit to Michelle DeBakey.

Rosanna Warren is the Emma Ann MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities and a Professor of English and Romance Studies at Boston University. She received the 92nd Street YMHA/YWHA The Nation Discovery Award in poetry (1980), the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award for Poetry (1993), the Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets for her book Stained Glass (1993), the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1993), and the May Sarton Award from the New England Poetry Club (1995). In 1997 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2004 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded Professor Warren the 2004 Award of Merit of Poetry, given once every six years to an outstanding poet. In 2005 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has also received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Professor Warren served as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1999-2005. In the fall of 2000 she was *The New York Times* Resident in Literature at the American Academy in Rome. Her other books are *Snow Day* (1981), *Each Leaf Shines Separate* (1985), *The Art of Translation: Voices From the Field* (1989), for which she was editor and contributor, and a translation of Euripides' *Suppliant Women* (with Stephen Scully, 1995). She has edited two volumes of William Arrowsmith's translation of the poems of Eugenio Montale (Cuttlefish Bones, 1992 and Satura 1998), and three anthologies of verse by prison inmates (*In Time* with Teresa Iverson, 1995; *From This Distance* with Meg Tyler, 1996; and *Springshine* with Meg Tyler, 1998). Other publications include *The Notes of Andre Derain*, an edited translation and essay, and articles on John Ashbery, Giacomo Leopardi, Gerard de Nerval, Stephen Spender, Derek Walcott, Apollinaire, and Umberto Saba. Her most recent book of poems is *Departure* (2003). In 2008 she published a book of literary criticism, *Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry*. Photo credit to Michelle DeBakey. In 2004 Professor Warren received the Boston University Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2006 Professor Warren received the Ellen Maria Gorrissen Berlin Prize at the American Academy in Berlin.

Marshall Moriarty became a partner in 1977, concentrating his practice in civil litigation. He retired on December 31, 2007, although he continues to do some client work. Marshall joined the firm in 1972 after having worked for two years as special assistant, and later executive assistant, to the Honorable Elliot L. Richardson, Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare.

Stanley Katz is President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, the leading organization in humanistic scholarship and education in the United States. Mr. Katz graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1955 with a major in English History and Literature. He received his M.A. from Harvard in American History in 1959 and his Ph.D. in the same field from Harvard in 1961. He attended Harvard Law School in 1969-70. His recent research focuses upon the relationship of civil society and constitutionalism to democracy, and upon the relationship of the United States to the international human rights regime. Formerly Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University, Mr. Katz is a leading expert on American legal and constitutional history, and on philanthropy and non-profit institutions.

Neal Gabler is the author of six books, including four biographies: Catching the Wind, An Empire of Their Own, Winchell, and Walt Disney. He has been the recipient of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Shorenstein Fellowship, and a Woodrow Wilson Public Policy scholarship, and was the chief nonfiction judge of the National Book Awards. Image credit : Jason Longo

Research interests include: modern propaganda, history and tactics of advertising, American film, and media ownership. Books include Boxed In: The Culture of TV; Seeing Through Movies, ed.; Mad Scientists: The Secret History of Modern Propaganda; Spectacle: Operation Desert Storm and the Triumph of Illusion; and The Bush Dyslexicon. His newest book is Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order.

James P. Breeden was born October 14, 1934, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and graduated from Dartmouth in 1956. He attended Union Theological Seminary in New York and was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in 1960. He received his doctorate from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1972. Dean Breeden's career has spanned civil rights activism, education, and the ministry; this collection of his papers places heavy emphasis on his activities in two of these areas, civil rights and education. He was appointed Dean of the Tucker Foundation in 1984. James Breeden's interest in civil rights activism began in 1961, when he was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi while seeking restaurant service in a local bus terminal. He has worked with several civil rights organizations, including the Episcopal Society for Racial and Cultural Unity (ESCRU) to fight racial discrimination within the Episcopal Church. Breeden's role as Executive Director of the Citywide Coordinating Council in Boston brought him into the heart of the turbulent struggle over desegregation of the public schools in that city. Since coming to the College, Dean Breeden has been active and outspoken in the anti-apartheid movement on the campus and in the nation.

Dr. David J. Helfand is professor of Astronomy at Columbia University, where he has taught for over 30 years. Professor Helfand's research has covered many areas of modern astrophysics, including radio, optical, and X-ray observations of celestial sources ranging from nearby stars to the most distant quasars. He is involved in a major project to survey our galaxy with a sensitivity and resolution a hundred times greater than what is currently available. The goal is to obtain a complete picture of stellar birth and death in the Milky Way. Professor Helfand received a Presidential Teaching Award and a Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates. At Columbia, he realized a long-term goal to introduce a science course into the university's famed core curriculum. In addition to his teaching duties, Professor Helfand lectures extensively on science to the general public, has appeared on the Discovery Channel's *Science News*, and is featured in the National Geographic Channel's *Known Universe*.