Gray Jacobik, author of three books of poems, is a distinguised professor of literature at Eastern Connecticut University. Her most recent book, Brave Disquises, won the AWP Poetry Series Award for 2001 (University of Pittsburgh Press 2002).

About Tar River Poetry:
Poets in this issue: Henry Taylor, Betty Adcock, Charles Wyatt, Dick Allen, Natasha Saje, Elizabeth Dodd, Bruce Bennett, Jennifer Ralph, Kathleen Halleron, Charlotte Matthews, Barbara Conrad, Ed Skoog, Wilmer Mills, James Harms, Debra Kang Dean, Elon G. Eidenier, Brendan Galvin, Lorrin Willis, Gerry LaFemina, Larry Woiwode, Thom Ward, Sherry Olson, Al Maginnes, Lance Larsen, Robert Cording, Richard Simpson, Floyd Skloot, Deborah Cummins, Brooke Horvath, Louis Simpson, Beverly Burch, Susan Elizabeth Howe, Howard Nelson, Craig Challender, Ruth Moose, Kimberly Meyer, Laurence Lieberman, Thomas Reiter, Tim Hunt, Fred Chappell, John Bargowski, Bob Hicok, Jonathan Holden, Kurt Brown, Loren Graham, Charles Harper Webb, David Mason, Gray Jacobik, Steven Huff, Mark DeFoe, Bryan Walpert, Susan Cohen, Jeffrey Harrison