David Lehman is Poetry Coordinator of the New School Writing Program in New York City. His most recent books of poetry are
The Evening Sun and When a Woman Loves a Man and he has written five books of critical prose, including
The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets and
The Perfect Murder: A Study in Detection. He founded
The Best American Poetry series in 1988 and continues to serve as general editor of this prestigious anthology. He also edited
Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present and co-edited
The KGB Bar Book of Poems, based on the reading series he directed with Star Black in New York's East Village.
John Brehm (Associate Editor) is a poet and free-lance writer. His works include The Way Water Moves and Sea of Faith, which won a Brittingham Prize for Poetry. He lives in New York City.