Chris Forhan's second book, The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars (Northeastern Univesity Press, 2003) won the Samuel French Morse Prize and a 2004 Washington State Book Award. His first book, Forgive Us Our Happiness (Univesity Press of New England, 1999), won the Bakeless Prize. He teaches at Auburn University.

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Poets in this issue: Hadara Bar-Nadav, Martha Rhodes, Jonah Winter, Reginald Shepherd, Laura Hope-Gill, James Arthur, Jerzy Kronhold, Beth Simon, Kevin Prufer, Ariane Bolduc, Susanne Kort, David Kirby, Leslie Shipman, Simon Perchick, David Citino, Chris Souza, Jonathan Shapiro, Nance Van Winckel, Billy Reynolds, Holly Posner, Jeanine DeRusha, David Lazar, Jim Daniels, Jerry Harp, Chris Forham, Kathleen Spivack