Paul Guest's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Iowa Review, Quarterly West, Slate, Third Coast, and Greensboro Review. He is the winner of the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize for his first book of poems, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World. He currently teaches at the University of Alabama.

About Crab Orchard Review:
Crab Orchard Review, the national literary magazine from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, has received awards from the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses and the Illinois Arts Council.

In this issue: Melissa Baird, Ned Balbo, Jackie Bartley, Eleanor Berry, Andrew Bomback, Ben Brooks, Anthony Butts, Lanette Cadle, Joseph Campana, Jennifer Chang, Victoria Chang, Chauna Craig, Chad Davidson, Christine Delea, Kevin Ducey, Denise Duhamel, Angie Estes, Kathy Fagan, Richard Garcia, Naama Goldstein, Paul Guest, David Hernandez, James Himelsbach, Laura Johnson, A. Van Jordan, Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis, Sarah Kennedy, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Vandana Khanna, Leonard Kress, Timothy Liu, David Lloyd, Sonya chung Miyamura, Matthew Pitt, Jack Ridl, Geoff Schmidt, Floyd Skloot, Virgil Suarez, Daniel Tobin, Brian Turner, Alison Umminger, Charles Harper Webb, Kelly Whiddon, S. L. Wisenberg, Geoffrey D. Witham.