Mary Jo Bang is the author of four books of poetry, including Louise in Love and The Eye Like a Strange Balloon. Her fifth book of poems, Elegy, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in October of 2007. A graduate of the Columbia University MFA program, she is currently an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis. She's been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bakeless Prize, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University.

All the poems by Mary Jo Bang that have appeared on Verse Daily:
July 7, 2007:   "G Is for Not Just One George" " Gilbert and his brother, plus the monkey..."
June 25, 2007:   "Goodbye Is Another Word for Not" " Goodbye Is Another Word for Not to know..."
January 1, 2007:   "Where" " In this cicada city, we are dead..."
October 17, 2005:   "The Cruel Wheel Turns Twice" " And tightens until language can't bear this..."
July 4, 2003:  "Gretel" "Mother, I am bare in a mist-mad forest..."

Books by Mary Jo Bang: Elegy, The Eye Like a Strange Balloon, Louise in Love, Apology for Want, The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans, Whatever You Desire

Other poems on the web by Mary Jo Bang:
Six poems
Three poems
"Doll"
"The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity"
"Begin Here"
"The Beauties of Nature"
"Ham Paints a Picture to Illustrate an Early Lesson: O Trauma!"
"Mrs. Autumn and Her Two Daughters"
"In the Book of all that's Befallen"

About Jubilat:
Poets in this issue: Stephanie Cleveland, David Sewell, C.M. Burroughs, Albert Flynn DeSilver, Tanya Larkin, Ellen Hinsey, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Christopher Murray, Prageeta Sharma, Evan Willner, Kate Hall, Vito Acconci, Seth Abramson, Andrew Maxwell, Lesle Lewis, Jonathan Skinner, Mary Jo Bang, Jericho Brown, Danielle Dutton, Fernando Pessoa, Michael Snediker, Jon Link, Erica Ehrenberg, Deborah Golub, Rae Armantrout, John Gallaher, Charles Freeland, Robert Strong, Eric Lorberer (Photographs by Kelly Everding), Dorothea Lasky, Ilse Aichinger, Christian Hawkey, Uljana Wolf, Cathy Park Hong, Michael Hansen, Matt Hart, Britta Ameel, Genya Turovskaya