The poetry faculty of the 2009 Napa Valley Writers’ Conference will be:

• Jane Hirshfield (our every-other-year headliner and treasured F.O.C.–Friend of the Conference)
• Elizabeth Alexander (taught brilliantly for us in 2007)
• Carl Dennis (for the first time ever!)
• David St. John (taught smashingly for us in 2007 and one or more times pre-2002, where my institutional memory stops)

The conference website will be updated soon with the 2009 application deadline and other information.