Lisa Jarnot is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, including Black Dog Songs (Flood Editions, 2003). She currently lives in New York City and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Brooklyn College.

Other poems from Backwards City Review in Verse Daily:
January 29, 2005:  "Summer Crookneck" by Erica Bernheim
January 28, 2005:  "On a Return to Being a Polemic against Light Verse" by Arielle Greenberg

About Backwards City Review:
Poets in this issue: Dan Albergotti, Linh Dinh, C. Derick Varn, Joanne Lowery, Michael Constantine McConnell, Lisa Jarnot, Adam Clay, Eric Amling, Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, Anna Fulford, Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton, Chad Davidson & John Poch, Nick Carbo, Michael Robins, Marc McKee, Jon Leon, Becky Cooper, Matthew Rohrer, Chris Vitiello, James Grinwis