Dawn Lonsinger recently completed the MFA program at Cornell University, and her poems have appeared in a number of journals, including The Beloit Poetry Journal, Smartish Pace, The Crab Orchard Review, and Verse Daily. She is the recipient of a Corson-Bishop Prize, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, the inaugural Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, and she received honorable mention in The Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Contest. She has not been recorded by medical science.

Other poems by Dawn Lonsinger in Verse Daily:
July 22, 2005:   "The Blue-Gray Body of the Zambezi" "The river is full of albescent bodies..."

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Poets in this issue: Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Virginia Chase Sutton, Edward Schelb, C. J. Sage, Michael Robin, Liz Robbins, Melissa Rhoades, Chad Prevost, Daniel Pinkerton, Alex Phillips, Abby Millager, Jennifer Merrrifield, Karla Linn Merrifield, Nora Mccrea, Tod Marshall, Dawn Lonsinger, Jessica Lindberg, George Kalamaras, Marcia L. Hurlow, Steven Huff, Bob Hicok, William Heyen, Karen Head, Nate Haldeman, James Grabill, Jeannine Hall Gailey, John Erhardt, C. S. Carrier, Rob Carney, Thom Caraway, Laurie Byro, Christopher Buckley, Kurt Brown, Dan Bowman, J. P. Dancing Bear, Walter Bargen, Robyn Art