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2007-2008 Park University Ethnic Voices Poetry Series Financial Assistance for this project has been provided by the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.
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Mark Turcotte grew up on North Dakota's Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation
and in migrant camps, living on the road for nearly 15 years. In spring
of 1993, he joined the Chicago poetry scene. He won the First Gwendolyn Brooks
Open-mic Poetry Award and was named a Significant Illinois Poet, and to the
Illinois Authors Poster. He received a Residency from National Writer's Voice;
the 1997 Josephine Gates Kelly Memorial Fellowship from the Wordcraft Circle
of Native Writers and Storytellers; a Lannan Foundation Literary Completion
Grant; and two Literary Fellowships by the Wisconsin Arts Board. He authored
The Feathered Heart (Michigan State UP, revised, 1998); Songs of Our
Ancestors (Children's Press, 1995); Road Noise (Mesilla Press, 1998);
and Le Chant de la Route (bilingual, La Vague Verte, 2001). His collection
Exploding Chippewas (Northwestern UP, 2002) is in its third printing.
He has published in TriQuarterly, POETRY, Prairie Schooner,
Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, and The Laurel Review.
His poem The Flower On was part of the Poetry Society of America's Poetry
In Motion project, and he recently published short stories in Rosebud
and Hunger Mountain. 
Brenda Cárdenas' chapbook of poetry From the Tongues of Brick and
Stone was published by Momotombo Press (Institute for Latino/a Studies,
University of Notre Dame) in 2005, and her full-length book Boomerang is forthcoming
from Bilingual Review Press. She also co-edited Between the Heart and the
Land: Latina Poets in the Midwest (MARCH/Abrazo Press, 2001). Cardenas'
work has appeared in a range of publications, including Poetic Voices Without
Borders; U.S. Latino Literature Today; Prairie Schooner; RATTLE;
Bum Rush the Page:A Def Poetry Jam; and the Poetry Daily
web site, among others. Cárdenas also has a special chapter in the 
Stanley E. Banks has written four books of poetry: Blue Beat Syncopation
(BkMk Press, 2002), Rhythm and Guts (Georgia A.B.Press, 1992), Coming
from a Funky Time and Place (Georgia A.B.Press, 1988), and On 10th Alley
Way (BkMk Press, 1981). His awards include The Langston Hughes Prize for
Poetry and the N. E. A. Fellowship. He is an Assistant Professor and Artist-in-Residence
at Avila University in Kansas City, Missouri since 1997.