Lynne McMahon's third book is titled The House of Entertaining Science (David Godine, 1999). Sentimental Standards, her most recent collection of poems, will be published in 2003. Her awards include a Pushcart Prize and appearances in the Best of American Poetry Anthology. She has received grants from the Ingram-Merrill Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation and is a professor of English at the University of Missouri.

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Poets in this issue: Lynne McMahon, Paisley Rekdal, Virgil Suarez, Cynie Cory, Fred Dings, Albert Goldbarth, Abigail A. Cloud, Dana Curtis, Jack Martin, Joanna Straughn, Carol Guerrero-Murphy, Miho Nonaka, Tamara Kaye Sellman, Susan Grigsby, Kyong Hryou, Takamura Kotaro, Eamon Grennan, Ian Haight, Scott Hightower, Alexandra Teague, Lightsey Darst, Margaret Walther, Natasha Saje, Erika Baxter