C. J. Sage edits The National Poetry Review and teaches at De Anza and Hartnell colleges. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Shenandoah, The Antioch Review, The Threepenny Review, Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, et cetera. A book length terza rima, Odyssea, is forthcoming from Turning Point Books in spring 2007. Previous books are Field Notes in Contemporary Literature, And We the Creatures, and Let’s Not Sleep.

Other poems by C. J. Sage in Verse Daily:
January 26, 2006:   "The Dark Pelican" " Her nest is crude (though on the shore it rests..."
November 2, 2005:   "Choir" by C.J. Sage
September 8, 2004:  "Managing Myth" "From time to time the red-winged blackbirds tumble..."
December 31, 2003:  "Litany for Treetops" "The way the wind breaks across a giraffe's neck..."
September 17, 2002:  "Birth Ghazal" and "Bridge Ghazal" "I want to say before I die: my heart is clear; my hands, reborn...."
August 27, 2002:  "Sonnet For Carryhouse and Keeper" "I met a man who'd kept a snail as pet...."

About The American Poetry Journal:
Poets in this issue: John Thomas, Christina Lovin, Kim Bridgford, Robert Parham, Eliot Khalil Wilson, Sarah Blackman, Judy Kronenfeld, Matthew Olzmann, Corey Mesler, Rodney Gomez, Robert Moyer, Bob McHeffey, Juda Bennett, Robert Simon, Jehanne Dubrow, DGB Featherkile, Jay Rubin, Susan Edwards Richmond, C. J. Sage