Charles Wright teaches at the University of Virginia. His poem in this issue will be included in Scar Tissue, a collection of poems to be published in 2006.

Other from West Branch in Verse Daily:
May 17, 2005:  "Vespers" Charles Wright
December 14, 2004:  "The Tortoise" by Betsy Sholl
December 13, 2004:  "Grackles" by Lisa Williams
August 10, 2004:  "Anecdote of the Turkeys" by Wayne Dodd
August 2, 2004:  "Speak, Zero" by Mary Ruefle
June 19, 2004:  "Yes, to the Mole, Emerging in Night" by Daniel Bourne
February 10, 2004:  "Rorschach on Pond" by Sean Serrell
February 9, 2004:  "Deer" by Sarah Kennedy
June 1, 2003:  "First Thing" by Bill Knott
May 20, 2003:  "Succession" by Bill Knott
May 19, 2003:  "Angry Music" by John Nixon, Jr.
May 16, 2003:  "I Never Promised You a Worm Farm" by Charles Harper Webb
January 31, 2003:  "Collect Call" by Michelle Boisseau
January 15, 2003:  "Cautionary Tale" by Nance Van Winckel
January 8, 2003:  "The Climbers" by Jeffrey Skinner
January 7, 2003:  "Steadily" by Michelle Boisseau

About West Branch:
Poets in this issue: Josh Wallaert , John Kinsella, Greg Rappleye, Yona Harvey, Beth Thomas, Harry Humes, Moira Egan, Herman Asarnow, Scott Minar, Melora Wolff, Anne Pierson Wiese, Roger Mitchell, Bryan Penberthy, Dana Sonnenschein, David Hernandez, Jean Nordhaus, Katherine Riegel, J. Gallaher, Stephen Knauth, Charity Ketz, Charles Wright, Charles Harper Webb, Arthur Rimbaud, John Kinsella, Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska, Karen Kovacik