Jeff Hardin teaches English at Columbia State Community College in Columbia, Tennessee. His poems have appeared in The New Republic, The Laurel Review, Puerto del Sol, and other periodicals. His chapbook, Deep in the Shallows, was recently published by Green Tower Press.

About The Formalist:
Poets in this issue: Timothy Steele, T. M. Moore, David Mason, Jim Barnes, Vernon Scannell, Francis Fike, D. C. Stone, Walt McDonald, Paul Verlaine, Alice Park, Deborah Warren, Rachel Hadas, David Galef, Ellen Goldstein, Bruce Bennett, W. D. Snodgrass, Allison Joseph, Jeff Hardin, Edward Zuk, Ann K. Schwader, Martial, Susan McLean, Harvey Stanbrough, A. M. Juster, John Ridland, Richard Wakefield, J. V. Cunningham, David Berman, Matthew Hupert, Bruce Bennett, Pierre de Ronsard, Ed L. Wier, Arthur Meryash, Jeremy Schomer, Lope De Vega, Richard O'Connell, Joe Benevento, David Berman, Joseph S. Salemi, Thomas Carper, Lewis Turco, Susan Hamlyn, Leonard Cochran, Benjamin Taylor Lally, Jose Marti, My Caballero, Tyler Fisher, Cynthia Gaver, Jaqueline Seaberg, Robert Daseler