Maurya Simon is the author of five collections of poems. Her most recent is a limited-edition book, A Brief History of Punctuation, published in 2002 by Sutton Hoo Press. The poems in this issue are drawn from her recently completed novel in verse, The Raindrop's Gospel: The Trials of St. Jerome and St. Paula.

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Poets in this issue: John Bensko, Richard Cecil, Harry Clifton, Lorna Crozier, Daniel Donaghy, Robert Farnsworth, Eliza Griswold, Eric Gudas, Piotr Gwiazda, Henry Hart, Laurie Kutchins, Patrick Lane, Laurence Lieberman, William Logan, Maurice Manning, Diane Mehta, John Morgan, William Olsen, Jacqueline Dee Parker, Cecily Parks, Elizabeth Poliner, John Reibetanz, Michael Symmons Roberts, Maurya Simon, Charlie Smith, Frederick Smock, Ross Taylor, Ann Townsend, David Wagoner, Ronald Wallace, Michael Waters, Mark Williams Jake Adam York