George Looney's third book, The Precarious Rhetoric of Angels, has won the tenth annual White Pine Press Poetry Award and will be published by White Pine Press in the fall of 2005. His first, Animals Housed in the Pleasure of Flesh, won the 1995 Bluestem Award, and his second, Attendant Ghosts, was published by Cleveland State University Press in 2000. He directs the BFA in Creative Writing program at Penn State Erie, where he is editor-in-chief of Lake Effect, and serves as translation editor of Mid-American Review.

Other poems by George Looney in Verse Daily:
April 4, 2005:  "Figures We're Meant to Believe In" ""Coal runs veins under what was..."
October 30, 2004:  "Madness in the Form of Birds" "Folks say mynahs mimic human speech...."

Other poems from The Literary Review in Verse Daily:
May 22, 2005:  "Dishonest Elegy for a Sentimental Mood" Melissa Koosmann
May 20, 2005:  "Pas De L'Incise" D. Nurske
January 26, 2005:  "We Golems" by Michael Demos
December 9, 2004:  "Seeing Through Things" by Diane Mehta
December 8, 2004:  "Oh Yes Tomorrow Expect the Ordinary" by Renée Ashley
December 7, 2004:  "Fleur de Lys" by Daniel Mark Epstein
December 6, 2004:  "Animals at My House" by Eduardo Chirinos, translated by G. J. Racz
October 9, 2004:  "Prose Poems" by Louise Ho
May 19, 2004:  "There Must be Music or Fear" by Rodney Wittner
May 18, 2004:  "Pythia: The Process" by Rita Signorelli-Pappas
February 4, 2004:  "Insomnia" by Rick Mulkey
May 28, 2003:  "The Garden" by David Daniel
January 17, 2003:  "The Shelter in Children's Stories" by Stephen Frech
December 29, 2002:  "Quo Journal: Just as They Come" by Michael Morse
July 28, 2002:  "The Heron" by Kathleen Jamie

About The Literary Review:
Poets in this issue: Charles Wright, Frank Bidart, D. Nurske, Phan Nhien Hao, Mary Alexandra Agner, Bobby C. Rogers, Richard Jones, Gunter Kunert, Melissa Koosman, Jeanne Larsen, Chad Parmenter, Bian Zhilin, George Looney, Lightsey Darst, Mitchell LesCarbeau, Kevin King, Matthew Frank, Chris Hosea