Stephen Dobyns is the author of twelve volumes of poetry, twenty novels, a collection of essays on poetry entitled Best Words, Best Order, and an award-winning collection of short stories, Eating Naked. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his poetry and three fellowships from the NEA. He currently teaches in the graduate writing program at Sarah Lawrence College.

Other poems by Stephen Dobyns in Verse Daily:
October 18, 2004:  "An Artist Like Any Other" "Let's say a fellow has a little trick..."

About Lumina:
Poets in this issue: Diane Holland, Nicolette Bond, Mary Austin Speaker, Maya Pindyck, Maria Negroni, Diana Marie Delgado, Holly Clark, Jeanine Walker, Sampson Starkweather, Stephen Dobyns, Mark Doty, Kimiko Hahn, Caroline Whitbeck, Cynthia Lowen, Brenda Hillman, Denise Duhamel, Lindsey Horne, Bill Knott, Pamela Hart, Gwendolen Gross, Shirin Aitmatova, Matthea Harvey, Douglas S. Hahn, Misty Harper, Tomaz Salamun, Rebecca Keith, Madge Duffey, Nicole Steinberg, Soraya Shalforoosh, Sherine Elise Gilmour, Neil Arditi, Stella Padnos, Anna Napp, Nancy Dereksen, Skye Sumner, Cathy McArthur, Krystal Solcich, Zandy Smith, Jean Valentine, Minal K. Singh, Amaranth Borusk, Jennie Panchy, Suzanne Gardinier