Invited Guest

David Rigsbee is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Language and Literature at Mount Olive College, and the author of six collections of poetry and critical works on Joseph Brodsky and Carolyn Kizer. Steven Ford Brown is the editor of Astonishing World: The Selected Poems of Angel Gonzalez, 1956-1986.

Invited Guest, as is the case with really good anthologies, significantly shapes the history of the literature it surveys.-Mary Ellis Gibson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, editor of Homeplaces: Stories of the South by Women Writers; ""Rigsbee and Brown have selected not only the well-known or signature poems but also poems that are not often anthologized, making Invited Guest fresh and interesting. This work is enjoyable and informative, incisive and insightful.""-Joanne V. Gabbin, James Madison University, editor of The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry