Barbara Ras's new book of poems is The Last Skin. Rich and full as ripe fruit, her work can be both deeply moving and subtly humorous. Her first book, Bite Every Sorrow, was selected by C.K. Williams for the 1997 Walt Whitman Award; her second book is One Hidden Stuff. She has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and she directs Trinity University Press.

Dan Bellm's new book of poems is Practice. Alicia Ostriker says, "I am in awe of how Bellm's poems perform a dance with and against Holy Scriptures. Practice is like a long prayer of wonder, gratitude, pain and loss and tenderness." His two previous collections are One Hand on the Wheel and Buried Treasure, which won both the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize and the Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America.

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