Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross was a winner of the 2003 National Poetry Series (judge: James Galvin) and was published by Penguin Books. A companion book, The Making of Collateral Beauty, won Tupelo Press's Snowbound Chapbook Award. Both books may be purchased together for $25 (includes shipping) by check (Mark Yakich, English Dept., Loyola University, New Orleans, LA 70118) or by PayPal: Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross may be purchased alone from: 1) The Poet, who will sign and draw a new superhero on the title page, for $18 (includes shipping) by check (Mark Yakich, English Dept., Loyola University, New Orleans, LA 70118) or by PayPal: 2) 3) 4) Your local bookstore: a good idea even if it's not an independent bookstore, because if you buy the copy they have, they'll order another one which diminishes the chances of my book getting "pulped" in the near future. Sample poems: "The Teller Is the Only Survivor of the Fairy Tale Ending" from Verse Daily Aerialist, from Verse Daily "Come Back My Daughter from the Green Fjords" and "Gentle Reader" "Old Celery" from Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac "Dear Birds" from Verse Daily Reviews: Review from Chicago Tribune Review from San Francisco Chronicle Review from Library Journal Review from Small Spiral Notebook Review from The Antioch Review