Mekeel McBride has five books with Carnegie-Mellon University Press. Her most recent collection is The Deepest Part of the River, and her New and Selected Poems is forthcoming in 2006. She teaches at the University of New Hampshire.

Other poems from Crying Sky in Verse Daily:
February 18, 2005:  "Angel of Dissent" by Betsy Sholl
February 17, 2005:  "Blackberry" by Cynthia Huntington

About Crying Sky:
Poets in this issue: Jame Haug, Jack Myers, Betsy Sholl, Alice B. Fogel, Rustin Larson, Mekeel McBride, David Allan Evans, Leatha Kendrick, James Rioux, William Kemmett, Cleopatra Mathis, Cynthia Huntington, Glenn J. Freeman, David Wojahn