Carrie Fountain's poems have appeared in Cimarron Review, Black Warrior Review, and Missouri Review Online, among others. She was a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers, and received Swink Magazine's Award for Emerging Writers and the Marlboro Poetry Prize. She lives in Austin, TX, where she is a poetry columnist for the Austin American-Statesman and program director of Grrl Action, an artistic mentorship program for teenage girls.

Other poems by Carrie Fountain in Verse Daily:
September 6, 2007:   "Starting Small" " At sunset on the Fourth of July..."

Books by Carrie Fountain:

Other poems on the web by Carrie Fountain:
"Purple Heart"
"Burn Lake 2"

About Cave Wall:
Poets in this issue: William Wenthe, Carrie Fountain, Cj Sage, Sebastian Matthews, Al Maginnes, Norbert Hirschhorn, Emma Bolden, Sandra Beasley, Diana Pinckney, Elizabeth Volpe, Rebecca Mcclanahan, Sharon Kessler, Hailey Leithauser, Richard Jackson, Terri Wolfe, Rebecca Warren, Michael Steffen, Kate Fetherston