A. E. Stallings' first collection, Archaic Smile, won the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award. Her work has appeared in the Best American Poetry series (1994, 2000) and Pushcart Prize anthology. Recent work appears in The Atlantic Monthly, Iron Horse Literary Review, Poetry, New Criterion, The Yale Review, and 32 Poems.

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Poets in this issue: Stuart Bloodworth, John Brehm, Bruce Brezel, Derick Burleson, J. P. Dancing Bear, Ellen Kirvin Dudis, Rhina P. Espaillat, Kate Evans, Annie Finch, Joy Harold Helsing, Tina Kelley, Lynne Knight, S. D. Lishan, Rachel Losh, Daisy Luu, Randall Mann, Molly Peacock, Nils Peterson, Margot Schilpp, Floyd Skloot, R. T. Smith, A. E. Stallings, Diane Thiel, Nance Van Winckel, Ingrid Wendt