Cathy Colman's new book, her second, is Beauty's Tattoo. Jeffrey McDaniel says, "I've been an admirer of Cathy Colman's work for over fifteen years now, her intoxicating blend of stop-in-your-tracks imagery, her lettuce-crisp diction, the mixture of Eros, imagination, and longing." Her first book of poems, Borrowed Dress, won the 2001 Felix Pollak Award for Poetry and made The Los Angeles Times Bestseller List the first week of its publication. She's won the Browning Award for Poetry and the Ascher Montandon Award for Poetry.

Barbara Tomash's new book of poems is The Secret of White. Truong Tran says, "The Secret of White is a marvel of language, written with acute patience and precision. Each line and image is crafted with the care of embroidery, the pen and paper giving way to the needle and threadŠ" A multimedia artist before she became a poet, she won the Winnow First Poetry Award for her first book, Flying in Water, which has just been re-issued.

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