Neil Shepard has published two books of poetry: Scavenging the Country for a Heartbeat (First Book Award, Mid-List Press, 1993) and I'm Here Because I Lost My Way (Mid-List, 1998). Recent poems appear in Boulevard, Colorado Review, New England Review, North American Review, Ploughshares, Paris Review, Shenandoah, Triquarterly, and elsewhere. He teaches in the BFA Writing Program at Johnson State College and edits the Green Mountains Review.

Other poems by Neil Shepard in Verse Daily:
April 2, 2004:  "Oh! On an April Morning" "I'm ready to murder the flowers...."

Other poems from Southwest Review in Verse Daily:
March 25, 2005:  "UFOs" by Hailey Leithauser
March 24, 2005:  "Tornado/Warning" by Brian Henry
March 23, 2005:  "Variations on a Theme Beginning With Darkness" by Julianne Buchsbaum
November 27, 2004:  "Everything" by Debora Greger
June 22, 2004:  "Money" by Daniel Corrie
June 20, 2004:  "Some Thoughts on the Bergen Street Renaissance" by Tess Taylor
June 17, 2004:  "The Green Going On" by Larry Bradley
April 1, 2004:  "Poison" by Charles Martin
March 30, 2004:  "Rehearsals for the New Order" by Bruce Bond
March 29, 2004:  "For Rent" by Dolores Hayden
December 2, 2003:  "Hay Field on Methodist Hill" by Deborah Warren
December 1, 2003:  "Platonic" byWilliam Wenthe
June 19, 2003:  "The Park Interpreter Speaks" by Leslie Noyes Harrison
June 3, 2003:  "Pink Salmon" by Cecily Parks
March 11, 2003:  "Restoration, Full Moon Garden" by Andrew McCord
March 10, 2003:  "The Dunes" by William Logan
December 22, 2002:  "Georgic" by Michael J. Rosen
December 20, 2002:  "Wisdom Teeth" by Eliza Griswold
December 18, 2002:  Variations on a Postcard by T. S. Eliot by Karl Kirchwey
September 20, 2002:  "Chevron and Swoop" by Cecily Parks

About Southwest Review:
Poets in this issue: Umit Singh Dhuga, Erica Dawson, Julie Sheehan, Richard Forester, Celia Gilbert, Rick Barot, Lisa Williams, Neil Shepard, Juliet Mattila