Category: Published Issues

Brad Davis
earned an MFA from Vermont College. Jack Myers was one of his four advisors. A poem he began while working with Jack won an AWP Intro Journal

Mark Cox
professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, has received many prominent honors and awards. He is the author

Paul Christensen
his latest book of poems, On Being Human, is due from Wings Press this spring. He has published seven other collections, and the memoirs, West

W.E. Butts
is the 2009 –2014 New Hampshire Poet Laureate, and the author of Sunday Evening at the Stardust Café, winner of the 2006 Iowa Source

Andrea Blancas
Beltran: graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2003 with a BA in Sociology and a Minor in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis.

Robin Behn
is the author of three books of poetry, Paper Bird (Texas Tech), which won the AWP Award Series in Poetry, The Red Hour (HarperCollins), and

Ralph Angel
books include Neither World, winner of the 1995 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, and Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems

Marian Aitches
teaches in the History Department at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her first collection of poems, Fishing for Light, won the Wings

Appetizers—for Jack Myers, 1988
by Mark Cox What I’d pay to see, the man says, is a bull elephant fighting a rhinoceros, and reaching for the smothered nachos, adds, now that

Stars—for Jack Myers, 1984
by Mark Cox Last night, like a match tossed off onto the lawn, it bloomed and disappeared. I kept smoking. And my dog kept nosing the damp