Sophie Cabot Black's first poetry collection, The Misunderstanding of Nature, received the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. Her poetry has appeared in numerous magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, Boston Review, The Paris Review, and Poetry. The Descent will be published by Graywolf Press in Fall 2004.

Other poems from Vallum in Verse Daily:
February 11, 2005:  "Cruelties" by Stephen Dunn

About Vallum:
Poets in this issue: Harris Gardner, David Harsent, Giles Goodland, Anne Simpson, Kevin Higgins, Stephen Dunn, Evan Jones, Mark Laliberte, Susan Ioannou, Cid Corman, Rocco de Giacomo, Jan Conn, Sophie Cabot Black, Trevor Robertson, Ronnie R. Brown, Carolyn Marie Souaid, Andrew Shelley, Vincent Tinguely, Michael Allen Potter, Gordon Massman, Carrie McGath, Neil Cain, Terry Ann Carter, Stephanie Bolster, John M. Bennett, bill bissett, Daniel Scott Tysdal, Terrance Cox, Allan Briesmaster, B. Z. Niditch, John B. Lee, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Bernstein, Günter Kunert