Mary Jo Bang 's latest book of poetry, Elegy (Graywolf Press, 2007), reviewed in this issue, was awarded the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. Her first book of poetry, Apology for Want (Middlebury, 1997), won the 1996 Bakeless Poetry Prize and the 1998 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. She has received a Pushcart Prize, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation. Her sixth collection, The Bride of E, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in fall of 2009. She teaches at Washington University, in St. Louis, Mo.

All the poems by Mary Jo Bang that have appeared on Verse Daily:
July 18, 2007:   "Goodbye Is Another Word for Not" " Imagine the movie..."
July 7, 2007:   "G Is for Not Just One George" " Gilbert and his brother, plus the monkey..."
June 25, 2007:   "There Is No Pretending" " There is no pretending to know..."
January 1, 2007:   "Where" " In this cicada city, we are dead..."
October 17, 2005:   "The Cruel Wheel Turns Twice" " And tightens until language can't bear this..."
July 4, 2003:  "Gretel" "Mother, I am bare in a mist-mad forest..."

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Books by Mary Jo Bang: Elegy, The Eye Like a Strange Balloon, Louise in Love, Apology for Want, The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans, Whatever You Desire

Other poems on the web by Mary Jo Bang:
Three poems
"Beast Brutality"
Six poems
Three poems
"Doll"
"The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity"
"Begin Here"
"The Beauties of Nature"
"Ham Paints a Picture to Illustrate an Early Lesson: O Trauma!"
"Mrs. Autumn and Her Two Daughters"
"In the Book of all that's Befallen"

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About New Letters:
Poets in this issue: Rawdon Tomlinson, Rika Lesser, Nancy White, Michael Joyce, Ann Snodgrass, Patricia Clark, Dante Alighieri, Mary Jo Bang, Willis Barnstone, Albert Goldbarth, Bill Ellison, Leon Stokesbury, Leslie Adrienne