C. J. Sage's poems have appeared in numerous international and national magazines including The Threepenny Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Smartish Pace, The Seattle Review, Light Quarterly, and The Bitter Oleander, and have won several literary awards including the Academy of American Poets Prize, several Phelans, and the Folendorf award for outstanding achievement in creative writing. Ms. Sage is also the editor of a new poetry anthology, And We The Creatures, featuring the work of fifty excellent contemporary American poets including David Baker, Scott Cairns, Stephen Dunn, Stuart Friebert, Amy Holman, Bob Hicok, Jane Hirshfield, Ted Kooser, Sarah Lindsay, Wesley McNair, Jane Mead, Lawrence Raab, Diane Thiel, David Wagoner, and Charles Harper Webb. Her own book of poetry is Let's Not Sleep (Dream Horse Press, 2002).

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Poets in this issue: Marilyn Pryle, Alicia Ostriker, Robin Behn, Peggy Hong, Myles Gordon, Martin Walls, Jenny A. Burkholder, Andrew Miller, Tim Kahl, Grey Held, Katherine Soniat, Matthew J. Spireng, M. Bennet Smith, Christopher Janke, James Ragan, Sarah Manguso, Nikki Moustaki, Julie Lechevsky, Alice Yuce, Helen Degan Cohen, Allen Braden, Kim Bridgford, Edward Bartok-Baratta, Maureen Clark, Melissa S Stein, Jessica L. Smucker, Stephanie Dickinson, William Greenway, JoLee Gibbons, Marjorie Stelmach, Michael Cadnum, Wendy Barker, Sara Willingham, E.M. Schorb, Rod Jellema, Ernest Stableford, Larry Janowski, Julie Babcock, Peggy Munson, C. J. Sage, Sally W. Bliumis.