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Joe Barnes
R. W. Haynes
Joe Barnes’ poetry appeared in The Weight of Addition: an anthology of Texas Poetry (2007) and in TimeSlice: Houston Poetry 2005, (both published by Mutabilis Press), as well as in several  other journals.  He has been a juried poet at the Houston Poetry Fest, and a featured poet in Houston’s First Friday Poetry Reading Series.  Barnes is also a playwright.    Barnes is a research fellow at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.  Prior to moving to Houston in 1995, he was a career diplomat with the U.S. State Department, serving in Saudi Arabia, Germany, Sudan, Sri Lanka, and Washington, DC.  Barnes is a graduate of Princeton University.  
 
 Joe Barnes, Houston, Texas

R. W. Haynes is an Associate Professor of English at
Texas A&M International University, and writes regularly in his academic life, including encyclopedia articles and book reviews.  He has current projects under way on Horton Foote and Shakespeare, several of his poems have been published in
Ampersand Poetry Journal, and two more will appear soon in Cause and Effect.  He recently published a short story  in Muscadine Lines. Haynes lives in Laredo, Texas, and he walks his dog each morning by the Rio Grande.

R. W. Haynes, Laredo, Texas