Monica Raymond is a prize-winning playwright and poet who has taught writing at Harvard, Northeastern, CUNY, and the Boston Museum School. The end words for "Sestina with Random Peace Words" were provided by audience members at "Patriotism and Resistance," a reading at the Stebbins Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in November 2006.

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Poets in this issue: Bill Capossere, Tenaya Darlington, Graham Foust, Amina Gautier, Dana Goodyear, Kevin Holden, Thomas Hummel, Heather Kirn, Joanna Klink, Susan Messer, Chelsey Minnis, Kevin Prufer, Monica Raymond, Lawrence Rosenwald, Brenda Shaughnessy, Page Hill Starzinger, Peter Streckfus, Stephen Tuttle, Daneen Wardrop