Marilyn Hacker is the author of nine books, including Winter Numbers, which received a Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Award from The Nation magazine and the Academy of American Poets in 1995; Selected Poems, which was awarded the Poets' Prize in 1996; and the verse novel Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons. A new book, Deseperanto, will be published in Spring 2003 by W. W. Norton. She lives in New York and Paris.

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Poets in this issue: Nin Andrews, Elsa Arnett, Chi-Wai Au, Lory Bedikian, Heather Brittain Bergstrom, Amy Bleser, Bruce Bond, Tara Bray, Bethany Edstrom, Ryan Fox, Elton Glaser, Iris Gomez, Kevin A. Gonzalez, Marilyn Hacker, Dennis Hinrichsen, Antonio Jocson, Kasey Jueds, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Trevor West Knapp, Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong, Gerry LaFemina, Karen An-Hwei Lee, Amy Lingafelter, Jeffrey McDaniel, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Jon Pineda, Rohan Preston, Joanna Smith Rakoff, Jennifer Richter, Andrea Scott, Peggy Shumaker, Maurya Simon, Myrna Stone, Maria Terrone, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Carolyn Beard Whitlow, Lisa Williams, Robert Wrigley