This year's guest is the poet Janice N. Harrington, recent winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and Professor in the Department of English here at the University of Illinois. Prof. Harrington has published several books of poetry and several children's books, in addition to publishing poems in, among others,The African American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Barrow Street, Beloit Poetry Journal, Black Renaissance / Renaissance Noire, Callaloo, Cimarron Review, Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Crab Orchard Review, crazyhorse, FIELD, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, New England Review, New Ohio Review, Orion, PANK, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, River Styx, Southern Humanities Review, The Southern Review, and West Branch.