Michael J. Rosen's poetry is collected in three volumes, A Drink at the Mirage (Princeton University Press), Traveling in Notions: The Stories of Gordon Penn (University of S. Carolina), and Telling Things (Harcourt). He is the editor of the recently released More Mirth of a Nation: The Best Contemporary Humor, as well as several other anthologies that benefit various animal welfare efforts and Share Our Strength's fight against hunger.

About The Southwest Review:
Poets in this issue: J. D. McClatchy, Rachel Hadas, Nadia Herman Colburn, James Hoggard, Josephine Singer, Eliza Griswold, Dorothea Tanning, Albert Goldbarth, Stephen Sandy, Debora Greger, Michael J. Rosen, David Havird