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is the author of several volumes of poetry, including Roll Deep, Hoops, and Leaving Saturn, which was awarded the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was

has poems that have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Ploughshares, Green Mountains Review, and Passages North, among other publications. Her

is the author of a letterpress chapbook, The Work at Hand, and a full-length collection, The Next Unknown. She has published poems and

is a schoolteacher. He divides his time between the nine-year-old children and the dogs, cats, woman, and parrots with whom he shares a house.

is a former college professor and poet living in Burlington, Vermont. His work has appeared in the anthology Onion River: Six Vermont Poets and

is the current Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine. She is the author of four poetry collections, including When We Invented Water (Moon Pie Press,

has published five books, including two poetry collections, The Occasions of Paradise (U. Tampa Press, 2012) and The Green Girls (Pleiades Press,

has had recent work in Prairie Schooner and Cutthroat and work forthcoming in the Massachusetts Review. His most recent book, Keep Your Head

by G. H. Smith This is not a poem about the inevitability Of old age, decrepitude, and death. You won’t find a single Reference to lost

by Didi Jackson The blade came too close to my own throat. I walk as far away as I can from the home of your hands. Here, in the dark, I

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