Gordon Osing has taught at the University of Memphis
since 1973. He founded there The River City Writers
Series, now in its twenty-second year. He is the author
of From the Boundary Waters and A Town Down-River.
He has also translated widely from the Chinese. His
travels to China inform his other verse and journal
collection, The Water Radical. “The Center is everywhere
attention gathers,” he has said of his work in verse, prose,
and translation.