Publisher's Synopsis
Issue #8 includes poems about overlooked wildflowers, berries, blossoms, trees, and the glories and ingloriousness of plants that have expanded or narrowed our focus. Thorns, pines, lilies, mums, office plants, tomatoes, yes, but these poems also speak of family trees and roots and bounties. Poets in this issue: David Allen, Muntather Alsawad, George Amabile, Peter Anderson, Michael Ansara, Lois Baer Barr, Mandy Beattie, Joe Benevento, Mark Blickley, Ann Borger, Jonathan Bracker, Mary M. Brown, Michael H. Brownstein, Roger Camp, Lorraine Caputo, Envy Cardena, Anders Carlson-Wee, Dan Carpenter, Jared Carter, Alys Caviness-Gober, Jan Chronister, Jeffrey Clapp, W. B. Cornwell, Mary A. Couch, Sandra de Helen, Karl Elder, Meg Freer, Gerald Friedman, Mary Ardeth Gaylord, Timothy Geiger, James Green, Will Griffith, John D. Groppe, Chris Hasara, Shayla Hawkins, Elizabeth Hill, John Hinton, Kaela Hinton, Mary Hinton, Liza Hyatt, Colin James, Michael Lee Johnson, LeAnn Jones, Patrick Kalahar, Chuck Kellum, Joseph Kerschbaum, Norbert Krapf, Judith A. Lawrence, Deborah Zarka Miller, Lylanne Musselman, Matt Nagin, James B. Nicola, James Nolan, Kathy O'Fallon, Regina O'Melveny, E. Martin Pedersen, Rosanne Megenity Peters, Nancy Kay Peterson, Samuel Prestridge, Carlos Reyes, Stephen R. Roberts, Kit Rohrbach, Brenda Ross, Qassim Saudi, Mary Harwell Sayler, Mary Sexson, Joanne Sharp, Robert Simon, Paul Smith, Michael E. Strosahl, Connie S. Tettenborn, David Vancil, Rp Verlaine, Melody Wang, Carrie Weinberger, J. T. Whitehead, Matthew Whybrew, Robin Wright, RM Yager, Bill Yarrow, Hiromi Yoshida, Judy Young. The featured artist for this issue is Laura Crawford. Also included are an interview with each winner of the two recent editor's choice awards: John D. Groppe and Mary A. Couch.
