Christina Pugh is the author of Rotary (Word Press), which received the Word Press First Book Prize. Her poems have recently appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, and in the anthology Poetry 180. She is currently a visiting assistant professor of English at Northwestern University.

Other poems by Christina Pugh in Verse Daily:
August 22, 2004:  "Apostrophe" "Early spring forsythia: the flowering..."
August 3, 2004:  "Rose City" "The bleared petals..."

Other poems from Crab Orchard Review in Verse Daily:
July 6, 2005:   "Goldfinch After Rain" Elizabeth Harvell
September 19, 2004:  "The Visitors" by Sylvia Curbelo
April 18, 2004:  "The Ghost of Weather" by Bruce Bond
April 2, 2004:  "Oh! On an April Morning" by Neil Shepard
March 31, 2004:  "Interior Lighting" by Elton Glaser
July 5, 2003:  "King Sugar" by Lorna Knowles Blake
July 3, 2003:  "A Simple Campsong" by Lucia Perillo
June 30, 2003:  "Tangerine" by Ruth L. Schwartz
February 12, 2003:  "Square du Temple" by Marilyn Hacker
February 6, 2003:  "Late-Talking Children" by Joanna Smith Rakoff
February 5, 2003:  "The Benjamin Franklin of Monogamy" by Jeffrey McDaniel
August 15, 2002:  "The Last Words of Alice the Goon" by Paul Guest
August 13, 2002:  "Wile E. Coyote Attains Nirvana" by David Hernandez
August 12, 2002:  "Interlude: Still Still" by Robin Behn

About Crab Orchard Review:
Poets in this issue: Candice Amich, Dargie Anderson, Kathleen Balma, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Ralph Burns, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Marcus Cafagna, Shannon Castleton, Deborah Cummins, Jarita Davis, Adam Day, Rae Gaouirand, Andrew Grace, Kelle Groom, Elizabeth Harvell, Michael Hefferman, David Hernandez, Dennis Hinrichsen, Elizabeth S. Hogan, Jennifer Johnson, Melanie Jordan, William Kloefkorn, Sandy Longhorn, Al Maginnes, Alana Merritt Mahaffey, Gregory Mahrer, Lydia Melvin, Richard Newman, Miho Nonaka, William Notter, Chris Pesa, Christina Pugh, Emily Raabe, Maxine Scates, Barry Silesky, Louie Skipper, Cassie Sparkman, Adrienne Su, Marieahadessa Ekere Tallie, Amber Flora Thomas, Samantha Thornbill, Bradford Tice, Daniel Tobin, Jennifer Tseng, Charles Harper Webb, Lesley Wheeler, Matt Zambito