John Beer's first book, The Waste Land and Other Poems, has just been published. Appearing in some fine literary magazines, he writes on theater for Time Out Chicago.

Suzanne Buffam's first collection of poetry, Past Imperfect (House of Anansi), won the Gerald Lampert Award for the best first book of poetry published in Canada in 2005, and was named one of 2005's Books of the Year by the Globe and Mail. Her poems have appeared in various journals in the U.S. and Canada, including Poetry, Jubilat, Denver Quarterly, the Colorado Review, A Public Space and The Canary. She won the 1998 Canadian Literary Award for Poetry and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Born and raised in Canada, she received an MA in English Literature from Concordia University in Montreal and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Paul Killebrew's first book, Flowers, is also hot off the press from Canarium Books; John Ashbery says that it, "plunges us into a world we inhabit but seldom notice, forcing its horror on us but also reminding us why we go on coping with it." He is the author of two chapbooks, Forget Rita and Inspector vs. Evader. He works as a lawyer at Innocence Project in New Orleans.

UNION! is Ish Klein's first book of poems; Nicole Pollentier says of it on www.poetryflash.org , "Like Walt Whitman's exclamatory 'Camerado, I give you my hand!" the[se] poems. . .are an invitation to the reader. Klein finds a vocabulary for a poetics of inclusion. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she lives in Philadelphia and is a filmmaker.

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