Book excerpt: Contributors to this prize-winning collection of contemporary poetry include Susan Keith, Kristopher Smotherman, Jacqueline Cooke, George R. Adams, Michael Burch, Lucille Lang Day, Christina Lovin, Judith Pacht, David J. Rothman, Frank Salvidio, Kathleen Browning, Nancy Meryl Bunich, Douglas W. Clark, K. Taggart-Hatlen, K.A. Hinkley, Jeff Howe, Carol Kanter, Mimi Moriarty, Daniel Waters, Robin Greene, Mary E. Donnelly, M.B. Powell, Tim Napier, Allen C. Jones, Gene Dixon, Maureen Cannon, Isaac Graf, Yvonne Nunn, Ian A. Hawkins, Christine Klocek-Lim, Linda Dousay, Belle Randall, Frank L. Ludwig, Rima Magee, Ryan Sawyer, Joseph Sherman, Kerry Wood, David W. Landrum, Lois Roisman, Matthew Haynes, Raymond Southall, Bruce Meyer, Joyce La Mers, Bobbi Dykema Katsanis, Meryl Raw, Philip Lewis, Peter Moltoni, M L Squier, Debbie Camelin, Noble Collins, Jessica Morrow, Tom Berman, Martin Steele, Johnmichael Simon, Peter Nash, Lynn Veach Sadler, Berwyn Moore, Susan Thomas, Dee C. Konrad, and John Howard Reid.