BESMILR BRIGHAM was born in some eighty years ago in Pace, Mississippi and until recently lived in Horatio, Arkansas with her husband and fifty or so cats. Winner of an NEA Fellowship, a student of Robert Duncan, New Directions published her only book, Heaved from the Earth, in 1971. A well-traveled bohemian, a hard-edged poet of death and life, she appeared in numerous anthologies in the 60s and 70s but is at this point she has become a forgotten voice. She currently lives in New Mexico with her daughter Heloise and her son-in-law, the poet Keith Wilson.