J. P. Dancing Bear is Editor-in-Chief of the DMQ Review and the host of "Out of Our Minds," a weekly poetry program on public radio station KKUP. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the following: Clackamas Literary Review, Potpourri, Ellipsis, Nexus and many others. In 2002, his chapbook, What Language, won the Slipstream Press Chapbook Contest. In the Spring of 2003, his chapbook, Blue Hand will be released by Pudding House Press.

About Controlled Burn:
Poets in this issue: Kate Schapira, Rebecca Emlinger Roberts, Jim Simmerman, Rita D. Costello, Kate Knapp Johnson, Chris Kingsley, John McKernan, James Harms, Barbara Crooker, J. P. Dancing Bear, Holly Pettit, Sun Yung Shin, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Alexios Antypas, Daneen Wardrop, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Robert Dunn, Chad Prevost, Jennifer Pearson, Marjorie Roberts, Rachel Moritz, Renee Olander