Gabriella Bedetti is a translator, literary scholar, and professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Iowa and has worked on the writing of Henri Meschonnic since the 1970s. After introducing him at the 1988 MLA Convention and working with him on translations of his prose, her translations, essay, and interview appeared in New Literary History, Critical Inquiry, and Diacritics. Along with being engaged with Meschonnic’s writing for the last half-century, she has been examining the work of his French and American contemporaries and the historical context, political currents and artistic influences that flowed into and out of his work. Thanks to her collaboration with the author, Régine Blaig, Meschonnic’s widow, has granted permission to include a remembrance in The Butterfly Tree: Selected Poems of Henri Meschonnic. With Don Boes, she published a recent essay on Meschonnic’s poetry in The Collidescope.

Don Boes received an M.F.A. from Indiana University in 1985, in Creative Writing and a B.A. (With Distinction) from Centre College in 1980, in English, Phi Beta Kappa. A three-time recipient of a Kentucky Arts Council Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship, he served on the poetry staff at Indiana Review and has been a resident at the Ragdale Foundation and the MacDowell Colony. He is the author of Good Luck With That, Railroad Crossing, and The Eighth Continent, selected by A. R. Ammons for the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The Louisville Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, CutBank, Zone 3, Southern Indiana Review, and The Cincinnati Review. His co-translations appear in Asymptote, Puerto del Sol, RHINO, The Southern Review, World Literature Today, and elsewhere.