Steve Kronen‘s most recent and forthcoming work is in Image, On the Seawall, upstreet, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, and One Hand Clapping (UK). The poem in this issue is from a new manuscript, Gimme That – Don’t Smite Me: New and Selected Poems. His collections are Homage to Mistress Oppenheimer (Eyewear), Splendor (BOA), and Empirical Evidence (U of Georgia). Kronen is the recipient of an NEA, Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences fellowships, and three Florida Arts fellowships. His website is www.stevekronen.com