Karl Elder received the 2005 Lorine Niedecker Award. His recent collections are The Minimalist's How-to Handbook (Parallel Press) and Mead (Marsh River Editions).

Other poems from Beloit Poetry Journal in Verse Daily:
March 4, 2005:  "Catherine Blake" by Rebecca Dunham
March 3, 2005:  "Cartographic" by Joshua Rivkin
March 2, 2005:  "Turning 50" by Bruce A. Jacobs
August 28, 2004:  "Obsolescence" by Leigh Anne Couch
August 27, 2004:  "The Weight of the World" by Frank Steele
August 26, 2004:  "For the Suicides" by Lola Haskins
August 25, 2004:  "Half Life" by Reynolds Dixon
August 24, 2004:  "The Last Ivory-Billed Woodpecker" by Bruce Tindall
June 11, 2004:  "Famish" by Lisa Furmanski
June 8, 2004:  "A Short History of the Republic" by John Haines
March 7, 2004:  "Waning Moon" by Conrad Hilberry
March 5, 2004:  "Portrait of the Family Without a Father" by Ken Victor
March 4, 2004:  "At the Intersection" by Andrea Heny
March 1, 2004:  "Marriage Bed" by Annie Boutelle
December 23, 2003:  "Exactly at midnight" by Margaret Aho
April 8, 2003:  "The Totality of Facts" by Allan Peterson

About Beloit Poetry Journal:
Poets in this issue: Douglas Woodsum, Scott Withiam, Jesse Lichtenstein, Young Smith, Kathleen Wakefield, Herman Asarnow, Susan Varnot, Robyn Anspach, Susan Tichy, Alicia Beale, Dana Elkun, Dawn Lonsinger, Karl Elder, Suzanne Heyd, Lynn Shoemaker