Tami Haaland teaches English at Montana State University—Billings. She won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize for her first book of poems, Breath in Every Room (Story Line Press, 2001). Her work has appeared in Calyx, 5AM, Petroglyph, The Florida Review, Rattapallax, and in several anthologies, including Ring of Fire: Writers of the Yellowstone Region. She received an M.F.A. from Bennington College in 2000.

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Poets in this issue: Peter Johnson, Judy Meiksin, Laura Moe, Rina Ferrarelli, John Smelcer, Ellen Bass, A. D. Winans, Ted Lardner, Eve Rifkah, Lee McCarthy, Nathalie Handal, Lola Haskins, Ed Galing, Gar Bethel, David Newman, Terry Stokes, Reb Livingston, Michael Milligan, Jerry Wemple, Wendy Wisner, Michael Wurster, Abby Millager, Susan Hutton, Erika Meitner, Jamie Ross, Craig Paulenich, Sandra Kohler, Gerald Locklin, David Huddle, Sean Nevin, Toi Derricotte, Kasey Jueds, Julie Fay, Chris Green, Richard Cecil, Marjorie L. Manwaring, Catherne Strisik, Afaa Michael Weaver, Philip Memmer, Lori Jakiela, Carolyn Beard Whitlow, Daneen Wardrop, Lyn Lifshin, Robert McDowell, Len Edgerly, Peter Davis, Joseph Green, Alan catlin, Peter Meinke, Nin Andrews, Tami Haaland