David Young's most recent books are Seasoning: A Poet's Year, with Seasonal Recipes (1999), and At the White Window (2000). His current translation project is a complete contemporary version of Petrarch's Canzonieri. He is a professor of poetry at Oberlin College, where he edits Field.

About Meridian:
Poets in this issue: Stephen Graham Jones, James Kimbrell, Lainee Frizzo, Larissa Szporluk, David Young, Eric Pankey, Neil Shepard, David Roderick, Kelly Whiddon, Lex Runciman, Kevin Stein, Bruce Beasley, R. T. Smith, Laura-Gray Street, Eduardo C. Corral