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is a poet from Sonora, Mexico where she has taught literature in the secondary school system for 35 years. She has received a variety of

is the author of four poetry collections, Vanishing Act, Entering Earthquake Country, Red Horses, and The Calamity Jane Poems. (The latter two

practiced cardiology in Portland, Maine for thirty years after receiving degrees at Yale University and Tufts University Medical School. He is

is the author of two books: Ghost Fargo (selected by Franz Wright for the Nightboat Prize and forthcoming early 2010) and Upon Arrival (Black

by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc After a quiet flash: a second sun rose and fell and flattened four square miles — half–grown potatoes cooked in the

by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc She led me in among the voiceless things. A long hallway, of course, and locked doors. She asked me to describe their pins

by Simon Pettet Two oranges, incense, a little fire water Some tastefully–wilted flowers, A perpetually shining bowl Two cups

by Simon Pettet Each portion of perfect beauty is acutely noted, deftly remarked upon and not at all dismissed Clap hands mouth clichés. When did

by Simon Pettet lizard sits on a rock lizard sits sun’s hot sun refracted to lizard through the spotlessly–clean high–rise

by Paula Cisewski But if he was hungry the thief or his children were hungry who said he has children better if he has the thief stealing the

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