Barbara Lau's first book of poetry, The Long Surprise, won the 2000 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize from Texas Review Press. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Iowa Review, River Styx, Field, and Spoon River Poetry Review.

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Poets in this issue: Daniel Corrie, Cathy Smith Bowers, John Brehm, Catharine Savage Brosman, Nancy Naomi Carlson, David Citino, Anne Coray, Robert Cording, Daniel Mark Epstein, Kathleen Flenniken, Brendan Galvin, Christine Garren, Sarah Gorham, Lance Larsen, Barbara Lau, Richard Lehnert, Michael McFee, Wesley McNair, Diane Mehta, William Miller, Jacquelyn Pope, Ron Rash, Christine Rhein, Jay Rogoff, Sarah Rossiter, Peter Schmitt, W. D. Snodgrass, Leon Stokesbury, Anne McCrary Sullivan, William Wenthe