Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Jane Hirshfield, author, Women in Praise of the Sacred (1994) and Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry: Essays (1997); Steve Kowit, professor of English language and humanities, Southwestern College; author, The Maverick Poets: An Anthology (1988) and Pranks (1990); Jack Miles, visiting fellow, California Institute of Technology; author, God: A Biography (1995) and co-author, Hiding (1997); Blanford Parker, adjunct associate professor of English, Claremont Graduate University; author, forthcoming The Triumph of Augustan Poetics: English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson (1998); Al Zolynas, professor of literature, United States International University; co-editor, Men of Our Time: An Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary America (1992) and The New Physics (1979); "Poetry and the Sacred" (10:30 a.m.)