Lorna Knowles Blake is a graduate of the M.F.A. program at Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has appeared in The Hudson Review, Pivot, The Lyric, and the anthology Ravishing Disunities: Real Ghazals in English.

About The Formalist:
Poets in this issue: W. D. Snodgrass, R. S. Gwynn, Richard Wilbur, Georges Fourest, Willis Barnstone, Robert Richman, Deborah Warren, Ralph McInerny, Harry Thomas, Steve Kronen, Charles Guenther, Marion Shore, Claudia Gary Annis, Thomas Carper, A. M. Juster, Len Krisak, Kate Light, Margaret Menamin, Arthur Meryash, Alfred Nicol, Chelsea Rathburn, Ann K. Schwader, A. E. Stallings, Timothy Murphy, Amy Helfrich Harner, John Popielaski, Charles Baudelaire, Helen Palma, Daniel Anderson, Les A. Murray, J. Bottum, Tony Barnstone, Michael R. Battram, Robert Hudson, Leeandra Nolting, Michael Lind, Lord Jeffrey, Richard Porson, Edward Lear, A. E. Housman, Hilaire Belloc, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Fred Chappell, Susan Hamlyn, Robert Hudson, Robert Daseler, Kim Bridgeford, David Livewell, Alfred Dorn, Robert Crawford, Sara Kasari, Lorna Knowles Blake, Henri de Regnier, Leslie McGrath, Gwen Hart, Lewis Turco, Louise Labe, Stevenson A. W. Richardson, Allison Joseph, David W. Landrum, Carrie Elin Awbery, Pat Pittman, Harvey Gross, Anthony Lombardy, Bill Coyle, Samuel Maio, John Ridland, Zachary Hudson, Theophile Gautier, Jan Schreiber, Alan Nordstrom, Kathryn T. S. Bass, Max Gutmann, Rhina Espaillat