J. Gallaher, co-editor of Laurel Review, is the author of Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls (Spuyten Duyvil), a book of poems. Recent work appears in Ploughshares, Southern Review, and FIELD.

Other from West Branch in Verse Daily:
May 25, 2005:  "Fontanelle" David Hernandez
May 21, 2005:  "The Innocent" Jean Nordhaus
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