Neil Shepard has published two books of poetry, Scavenging the Country for a Heartbeat (Mid-List Press; First Series Award) and I'm Here Because I Lost My Way (Mid-List Press). His poems appear in New England Review, Notre Dame Review, Paris Review, Ploughshares, and TriQuarterly. He teaches in the BFA Writing Program at Johnson State College and is editor of Green Mountains Review.

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Poets in this issue: Daniel Anderson, S. Beth Bishop, Bruce Bond, Joel Brouwer, Anthony Butts, Stacy Gillett Coyle, Melissa Crowe, Jim Daniels, Traci Dant, Oliver de la Paz, Matt Donovan, Kevin Ducey, Nancy Eimers, Beth Ann Fennelly, Vievee Francis, Yahya Frederickson, Elton Glaser, Luisa Igloria, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, Anne Keefe, Steve Kistulentz, Elizabeth Knapp, Melissa Kwasny, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Lisa Lewis, John Minczeski, Missy-Marie Montgomery, Donald Platt, Mary Quade, Sara Quinn Rivara, Nicholas Samaras, Sean Serrell, Neil Shepard, Betsy Sholl, Taije Silverman, Maggie Smith, Kevin Stein, Alexandra van de Kamp, Sophie Wadsworth, Branden Welborn, Gabriel Welsch, Katharine Whitcomb