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Paris has a special attraction for American and British writers who bring with them the influence of their own traditions but cannot escape for long the influence of French and other European styles of poetry. Evidence of Paris' exciting and vibrant poetry scene can be found in the packed events calender of the Paris Readings website, in the innovative Rewords collaborative poetry blog and in the pages of Parisian anglophone literary magazines such as Upstairs at Duroc.

	Jonathan Wonham is a British poet who has been living in Paris since 2003. His poetry has been published in Faber's Poetry Introduction 7 and a number of other anthologies including Future Welcome, New Writing Scotland, Radio Waves and the Tabla Book of New Verse. Magazine publications include: New Statesman, London Magazine, The Dark Horse, Thumbscrew, The North, nthposition and Pushing Out the Boat. He works as a geologist.
	Michelle Noteboom was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. After completing a BA from the University of Michigan in 1991, she moved to Paris where she continued her education at the Sorbonne, completing a French Masters and a DEA. Michelle co-curates the Paris-based Ivy Writers Reading Series along with Jennifer K. Dick, and also translates French poetry. Her poems have appeared in Aufgabe, Boston Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Verse, Fence, Sentence, Tears in the Fence, Van Gogh's Ear, Pharos, Upstairs at Duroc, and the Moosehead anthology. Her first collection Edging was published by Cracked Slab Books in 2006. She works as a freelance translator in the audiovisual field.
	Joe Ross is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently, Strati, bilingual Italian/English (La Camera Verde Press) and EQUATIONS = equals (Green Integer Press, 2004). Former Literary Editor of the arts bi-monthly The Washington Review from 1991-1997, and co-founder of both the In Your Ear reading series in Washington, D.C. and the Beyond the Page reading series in San Diego, CA, he received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award for his poetry in 1997 and the Gertrude Stein Poetry Award, 2003. He presently resides in Paris.
	Rufo Quintavalle is a British poet with an Italian name who lives in Paris. He was born in London, studied English at Oxford University and then at the University of Iowa. His poetry has been published in The Wolf, Upstairs at Duroc, Barrow Street, nthposition, Smiths Knoll and elimae.