S.D. Lishan is the author of Body Tapestries, winner of the 2005 Orphic Prize for Poetry. He has recently published work in Kenyon Review, Brevity, The National Poetry Review, Arts & Letters, Bellingham Review, and In Posse Review. He lives and plays in Delaware, Ohio, where he teaches in the English Department at The Ohio State University.

Other poems by S.D. Lishan in Verse Daily:
August 23, 2004:  "Olivia Between Acts" "How is it that some somebody slips in..."

About The American Poetry Journal:
Poets in this issue: Jackie Bartley, Kristin Berger, Gaylord Brewer, Garrett J. Brown, Edward Byrne, Dane Cervine, Nicole Cuddeback, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Paul Gibbons, Anne McGrath Hochberg, Tom Holmes, Rhett Iseman, John P. Kristofco, Daniel J. Langton, S.D. Lishan, Dawn Lonsinger, Joanne Lowery, M. B. McLatchey, M.K. Meder, Lois Roma-Deeley, C. J. Sage, Cassie Sparkman, Theodore Worozbyt