Sarah Hannah’s first book, Longing Distance (Tupelo Press, 2004), was a semi-finalist for the Yale Younger Poets Prize, and was nominated for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the Norma Farber Award, two Pushcart Prizes, and the Foreword Prize. These poems are from her second collection, entitled Inflorescence, to be published by Tupelo in 2008. Her poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Parnassus, Western Humanities Review, Gulf Coast, Boulevard, Agni, Rattapallax, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southern Humanities Review, and many other journals. She teaches poetry at Emerson College in Boston.

Other poems by Sarah Hannah in Verse Daily:
October 6, 2004:  "Destroying Angel (Amanita virosa)" "I'm way in, way in you, Mushroom..."
April 29, 2003:  "For the Fog Horn When There Is No Fog" "Still sounding in full sun past the jetty..."

About The National Poetry Review:
Poets in this issue: Debra Bruce, Steven D. Schroeder, Kathleen Halme III, Sarah Hannah, Michael Meyerhofer, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Linda Nemec Foster, Ann Lauinger, Lynne Knight, Tara Bray, Dean Jameson, Michael Robins, J. P. Dancing Bear, Bob Hicok, Brian Swann