Joanna Smith Rakoff's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Paris Review, Western Humanities Review, and Arts & Letters. A columnist for Poets & Writers, she also writes for the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Poets in this issue: Nin Andrews, Elsa Arnett, Chi-Wai Au, Lory Bedikian, Heather Brittain Bergstrom, Amy Bleser, Bruce Bond, Tara Bray, Bethany Edstrom, Ryan Fox, Elton Glaser, Iris Gomez, Kevin A. Gonzalez, Marilyn Hacker, Dennis Hinrichsen, Antonio Jocson, Kasey Jueds, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Trevor West Knapp, Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong, Gerry LaFemina, Karen An-Hwei Lee, Amy Lingafelter, Jeffrey McDaniel, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Jon Pineda, Rohan Preston, Joanna Smith Rakoff, Jennifer Richter, Andrea Scott, Peggy Shumaker, Maurya Simon, Myrna Stone, Maria Terrone, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Carolyn Beard Whitlow, Lisa Williams, Robert Wrigley