Julie Sheehan's first book, Thaw (Fordham), won the Poets Out Loud Prize and appeared with an introduction by Marie Ponsot in 2001. New poems are forthcoming or have appeared recently in Paris Review, which awarded her the 2003 Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry, Yale Review, Raritan, Salmagundi, Prairie Schooner, and Southwest Review, among others.

Other poems from Kenyon Review in Verse Daily:
July 25, 2005:   "Manatee" Carol Frost
May 9, 2005:  "Gregor Mendel in the Garden" Linda Bierds
January 24, 2005:  "Wishful Rhetoric" by Kevin Stein
January 11, 2005:  "Upon Witnessing My Mother Impossibly Blossom Above My Father's Deathbed" by Kevin Stein
October 14, 2004:  "They Shoot Birds" by Dionisio D. Martinez
October 13, 2004:  "Elephants and Butterflies" by Alan Michael Parker
October 12, 2004:  "Pomme Prisonniere" by Tenaya Darlington
October 11, 2004:  "Morning in Liguria" by Philip Levine
July 17, 2004:  "The Truth of Poetry" by Sharon Dolin
July 13, 2004:  "Simone Weil at the Renault Factory (1935)" by Nance Van Winckel
April 6, 2004:  "Start of March, Connemara" by Eamon Grennan
January 9, 2004:  "Let me Remind You You Are Still Under Oath" by Nance Van Winckel
January 6, 2004:  "Folded Back" by Rachel Hadas
October 4, 2003:  "So Begins The Lasting Silence" by John E. Smelcer
October 3, 2003:  "Target Practice" by Dolores Hayden
May 7, 2003:  "In Earnest" by Joshua McKinney
December 15, 2002:  My People by Dean Young
October 25, 2002:  "When I Taught Mary to Eat Avocado" by Alison Stine
September 13, 2002:  "Like Lavrinia" by Kimiko Hahn

About The Kenyon Review:
Poets in this issue: Pir Sultan Abdal, Sidney Wade, Güneli Gün, Mahmoud Darwish, Fady Joudah, Carol Frost, Debora Greger, James Kimbrell, Timothy Liu, Alan Michael Parker, Mark Rudman, Philip Schultz, Julie Sheehan, Bruce Weigl, Michael White