Contributors Robin Behn is the author of Paper Bird, The Red Hour and Horizon Note, winner of the Brittingham Prize. She is also co-editor of The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach.Her work appears in the Pushcart Prize anthology, Best American Poetry, and many literary journals. Joseph Bradshaw lives in Portland, where he's one of the coordinators of the Spare Room reading series. Some poems have recently been published at No Tell Motel, and are forthcoming in Traverse and Take Out. Michael Broder received his MFA from the Creative Writing Program at New York University in 2005. His work has appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, La Petite Zine, the Brooklyn Review, and the Capilano Review, as well as in the anthology This New Breed, and is forthcoming in BLOOM, Softblow, and Unpleasant Event Schedule. He is working on a doctorate in classical studies at the City University of New York and teaches in the classics department at Brooklyn College. Laton Carter lives in Eugene, Oregon. His first collection of poems, Leaving, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2004, and won the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry in the Oregon Book Awards, judged by Mark Doty, in 2005. Graham Foust is the author of Leave the Room to Itself and As in Every Deafness. He has published poems, essays, and reviews in Conjunctions, Fence, Verse, Painted Bride Quarterly, American Letters and Commentary and other journals. Dean Gorman lives in Portland. His work has appeared in Typo, Verso, and Unpleasant Event Schedule. He also writes freelance music reviews for The Portland Mercury and Music Liberation Project. Cecelia Hagen's poetry has been published in Seattle Review, Prairie Schooner, Rolling Stone, and other publications. Her chapbook Fringe Living was published by 26 Books, and in 2001 she was the recipient of a Writer's Fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts. Bob Hicok is the author of Insomnia Diary, Animal Soul , Plus Shipping, and The Legend of Light, which won the 1995 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and was named a 1997 ALA Booklist Notable Book of the Year. A recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and an NEA Fellowship, he has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including the 1997 and 1999 volumes of Best American Poetry. Christine Hume is the author of Musca Domestica, winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize, and Alaskaphrenia, winner of the Green Rose Award. Her reviews and critical work have been published in American Women Poets in the 21st Century, American Letters & Commentary, Chicago Review, Context, Verse, and online for Constant Critic/Fence, How2, and Slope. Janine Oshiro received an M.A. in Writing from Portland State University in 2005, and currently attends the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the recipient of a 2004 poetry fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts. Alan Michael Parker is the author of a novel, Cry Uncle, and three books of poems, Days Like Prose, The Vandals, and Love Song with Motor Vehicles. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Pleiades, and The Yale Review, among other magazines; his prose appears regularly in journals including The New York Times Book Review and The New Yorker. Alison Stine's chapbook, Lot of My Sister, winner of the Wick Prize, was published by Kent State university Press in 2001. Thomas Ward is a poet, essayist and the Editor at BOA Editions. His poetry collections include Small Boat with Oars of Different Size and Tumblekid. Two more poetry collections, Various Orbits and Fog in a Suitcase were published in 2004. Mark Yakich's first book of poems, Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross, was a winner of the 2003 National Poetry Series. He is also the author of The Making of Collateral Beauty. He is an assistant professor of English at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant. Ingred Zelada lives in Portland, where she is a part-time nanny and cabaret singer. For a brief period in the mid-1960's, she was Lucas Bernhardt's agent, and she produced many of his albums in the 1970's.