Cleopatra Mathis has taught at Dartmouth College since 1982. The most recent of her five books of poems is What to Tip the Boatman?, which won the Jane Kenyon Prize for Outstanding Book of Poems in 2001.

About Rivendell:
Poets in this issue: Geof Hewitt,Kate Barnes, John Hyland, Robert Dunn, Elizabeth Tibbetts, Baron Wormser, Jean Pedrick, Walter Clark, Marie Harris, Jim Koller, David Huddle, Kristen Linquist, Peter Money, Elaine Sexton, Cid Corman, Donald Hall, Julia Shipley, Dana Levin, Susan Thomas, Neil Shepard, Cynthia Huntington, Michael Blaine, David Giannini, Joseph Bruchac, Cleopatra Mathis, Gary Clark, Greg Joly, Betsy Sholl, Charles Simic, Theodore Enslin, Bill Holshouser, Bob Arnold