SHERMAN PEARL traded a career in journalism for one in poetry, and his awards include the 2002 National Writers Union Prize, the 2008 Anderbo Award, and the 2009 Margie Review Editor’s Prize. He is cofounder of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival, and his most recent book is Profanities (Conflux Press). He lives in Santa Monica, California.

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by Sherman Pearl, October 2009 (Issue 406)