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Robin Becker is the author of five books of poetry, including The Horse Fair (Pittsburgh, 2000). Her honors include the 1997 Virginia Faulkner Prize for Excellence in Writing from Prairie…

Jeanne Marie Beaumont�s first book, Placebo Effects (Norton, 1997), was selected for the National Poetry Series by William Matthews. New work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Witness, Double…

Liz Beasley is an MFA student at Bowling Green State University where she teaches English and Creative Writing and works as an Assistant Editor for Mid-American Review. Her poems have…

Claire Bateman lives in Greenville, SC, and teaches at the Fine Arts Center. Clumsy (New Issues, 2003) and Leap (New Issues, 2005) are the most recent of her five books.…

Douglas Basford’s chapbook, Our Humor (2008), will be published by Rager Media. He lives in Baltimore, teaches at The Johns Hopkins University, and edits the online poetry journal, www.unsplendid.com. His work appears in Smartish…

Dorothy Barresi is the author of three books of poetry, including The Post-Rapture Diner (Pittsburgh, 1996), which won the American Book Award, and Rouge Pulp (Pittsburgh, 2002). She is the…

Rick Barot is the author of The Darker Fall (2002) and Want (2008), both from Sarabande. He lives in Tacoma, Washington, and teaches both at Pacific Lutheran University and in the Program for Writers…

Aliki Barnstone is the author of five books of poetry including Blue Earth (Iris, 2004), Wild With It (Sheep Meadow, 2002), a National Books Critics Circle Notable Book, and The…

Coleman Barks is the author of four books of poetry including, most recently, Gourd Seed (Maypop, 1993). He has also translated sixteen volumes of Jelaluddin Rumi into English, culminating in…

Walter Bargen is the author of eight books of poetry, including Harmonic Balance (Timberline, 2001). In 1997 he won the Chester H. Jones Foundation poetry prize. (2002)

Poems: Speech is Designed to Persuade (From Issue 4)

Barry Ballard’s most recent collections of poetry are First Probe to Antarctica (Bright Hill, 2001) and Plowing to the End of the Road (Finishing Line, 2002). He won 3rd Place…