Susan Meyers' chapbook Lessons in Leaving was published in 1998 as the winner of the Persephone Press Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, North Carolina Literary Review, and other journals.

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Poets in this issue: Dick Allen, Allen Braden, Tara Bray, Fleda Brown, Michael Chitwood, Robert Cording, Stephen Coyne, Gary Fincke, Brendan Galvin, David Kirby, Lynne Knight, Victor Lodato, George Looney, Susan Ludvigson, Michael McFee, Peter Makuck, Susan Meyers, Jim Murphy, Marilyn Nelson, Lisa J. Parker, Lynn Powell, Ron Rash, Jay Rogoff, Stephen Sandy, Louis Simpson, Katherine Smith, Richard Tillinghast, Reetika Vazirani, Carolyne Wright