Join us as we celebrate the launch of the new spring issue of American Poet, the journal of the Academy of American Poets. Contributors to the new issue, Sabrina Orah Mark, Danielle Pafunda, and James Tate will read from their work.

Sabrina Orah Mark is the author of two books or poetry. Her first book is The Babies (Saturnalia, 2004), a collection of prose poems; and her second collection, Tsim Tsum, was published by Saturnalia in 2009.

James Tate is the author of, most recently, Ghost Soldiers (Ecco Press, 2008); Return to the City of White Donkeys (2004); and Memoir of a Hawk (2002). Tate's honors include a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Poetry, the Wallace Stevens Award, a 1995 Tanning Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2001, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Danielle Pafunda is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Iatrogenic: Their Testimonies (Noemi Press, 2010), and her other works include My Zorba (Bloof Books, 2008) and Pretty Young Thing (Soft Skull Press, 2005). Her poems have been anthologized in numerous publications, including three editions of Best American Poetry, Gurlesque (Saturnalia Books 2010), and Not for Mothers Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing (Fence Books 2007). She is an assistant professor of gender and women's studies and English at the University of Wyoming.