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

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

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

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

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

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

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

by B.Z. Niditch Into your creaking office with ivy toned wisdom carrying Catullus but fearing thirst and hell you were defenseless in a wizened

by B.Z. Niditch Night travels the field among a hundred days, your bed enters darkness on a bridge of departure from a poor man working dreams

by Patrick Dillon I see they’ve put a new McSorley in the ground along with all the McBrides and Hanrahans the Smiths and Smythes, as though in

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