W. F. Lantry, native of San Diego, is a widely published prize winning poet who has been featured in poetry journals and readings nationally and internationally. He currently lives in Washington, DC. Lantry worked with Carolyn Forch� in California, where he founded and edited Eye Prayers, a small press journal of poetry. He taught for eight years at L�Universit� de Nice in France earning his License and Ma�trise in English Literature, Linguistics and Translation. During this time, he won the Paris/Atlantic Young Writers Award. Boston University awarded him a Fellowship to study with Derek Walcott and George Starbuck, who together directed his thesis. There he received an M.A. in… English and Creative Writing. He holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston where he worked with Donald Barthelme, Ed Hirsch, Mary Robison, James Robison and Adam Zagajewski. He was the first in the program to be awarded a double PhD, one in Fiction, one in Poetry. He has taught at 12 different Universities on two continents in a variety of fields, most often Literature and Rhetoric, but also in History, Library Science, World Civilizations, and Information Technology. He served as Director of Academic Technology at a national research university in Washington, DC for 15 years.
Jean-Yves was born in Algeria, of French parents, moving to Morocco as a babe in his mother's arms when his father was transferred to Sal�: practically across from the Kasbah des Udayas of Rabat. Thereafter, he spent an idyllic youth between Morocco and Southern France. Upon settling in America with his family, at the age of 15, he soon began writing poetry as a teenager: being first published in A Letter Among Friends along with John Norman of New London, CT. After leaving College, Jean-Yves began a successful career in teaching and lecturing. He holds a doctorate in French on the representation of the Maghrebian [North African] landscape found in the texts by Pierre Loti, Andr� Gide,… Albert Camus and Jean-Marie Le Cl�zio.Since his retirement he has published several books of poetry: Clair-Obscur of the Soul (2008), Clair-obscur de l'�me [in French] (2008), In the Shade of a Flower (2009), Landscape of Envies (2010), Words Made of Silk (2011), Impressions of Reality (2013). His books offer a singularly unique view of mankind's reflection through the prism of the lyrical language and the quasi impressionist imagery of his poetry. "At times, some passages are examples of the translation of the human condition into pure thought" writes Michael Linnard.