Melissa Koosmann lives and teaches in Tuscon, Arizona. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blackbird, Nimrod, and the Indiana Review.

Other poems from The Literary Review in Verse Daily:
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