Bell, the Flannery O'Connor Professor of Letters at the UI, has held senior Fulbright appointments in Australia and Yugoslavia. His awards include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Award in Literature.
History is held and pondered.
Violence shimmers, desires are silhouetted against the light of love and death. His tone is at once erotic and mystical, hushed and compelling. Hejinian is the co-editor and publisher, with Barrett Watten, of Poetics Journal. She is a member of the Poetics Faculty at New College of California, and a lecturer in the University of California-Berkeley's Department of English. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, The Nation, The Georgia Review, the Atlantic, Antaeus, the Paris Review and others.