ROBERT AGAR--writer born in New York City, moving to eastern Pennsylvania eight years ago.  BS in CS from Pace University, 1992.  My work has or will recently appeared in The Lyric, Sparrow and Poetry Motel.  I draw my inspiration from the universe, in particular the realms of music and nature. ragar@ptd.net DEBORAH BACHARACH's work has appeared in Calyx, Switched-on Gutenberg, and Poet Lore among others. She lives in Seattle and teaches at Highline Community College. KATE BERNADETTE BENEDICT's publication credits include print journals such as Kalliope, Slant, Rhino, ELF, Thema, and The American Voice and online journals such as The Able Muse and Perihelion.  Work is forthcoming in The New Formalist and Curious Rooms.  Kate lives on New York City s upper west side and also dwells in cyberspace as a moderator for Eratosphere, the on-line poetry forum. http://home.att.net/~leahyshaw/katebenedict.html TONI LA REE BENNETT lives in Seattle, Washington. Having obtained her doctarate in English from the University of Washington, she is now monthsaway from a degree in Italian and hopes to translate not only her own workinto Italian, but that of other writers. Recent work has been published in The Muse Strikes Back (anthology), Stirring, Puerto del Sol, Hawaii Pacific Review, Bogg, Midwest Poetry Review, Journal of Poetry Therapy, Viet Nam Generation, California Quarterly, Mediphors, and Fox Cry Review. She works as a database manager to pay the bills and to buy seeds for her growing flock of finches. She is editor of the new online journal, Branches (www.branchesquarterly.com) and publisher of Uccelli Press. Email: toni@tonilareebennett.net JANET BUCK's poetry, poetics, and fiction have appeared in CrossCurrent, Kimera, 2River View, Niederngasse, The Melic Review, Pif, Stirring Magazine, The Adirondack Review, Stride Magazine, Steel Point Quarterly, The Danforth Review, Thunder Sandwich, Poetry Magazine.com, Southern Ocean Review, Big Bridge, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, The Pedestal Magazine, and a variety of other print and internet publications. She is a two-time Pushcart Nominee, a recent recipient of the H.G. Wells Award for Literary Excellence, and one of six winning poets in the Kota Press Anthology Contest. In April 2000, Janet's poem, "Acrylic Thighs," was featured at the United National Exhibit Hall in New York City. The piece was paired with original artwork, translated into five languages, and sent on tour to France, Brazil, Vietnam, and Australia. In the year 2001, Buck's poetry is scheduled to appear in the Montserrat Review, The American Muse, The Carriage House Review, Runes: A Review of Poetry, Rockhurst Review, and dozens of journals worldwide. She also appeared in a past issue of Facets. She is the author of four collections of poetry. For links to more of her work, visit http://members.aol.com/buck22874/whatsnew.html. jbuck22874@aol.com MARION COHEN has published several books, the latest of which are "Dirty Details: The Days and Nights of a Well Spouse" (nonfiction, Temple University Press) and "Epsilon Country" (poetry, The Center for Thanatology Research). Four things that she draws inspiration from are math, pregnancy loss, being the spouse of someone with very advanced multiple sclerosis, and babies and children. She lives in Philadelphia with her youngest son, Devin, aged 15; she has three grown children, a grandson, another grandchild on the way. She is a professor of mathematics and has appeared in a previous issue of Facets. Mathwoman199436@aol.com GOPAKUMAR DEVANARAYANAN lives and works in Kerala,  a state in the southern west part of India. A computer engineer by profession, writing is his passion. He works as an IT consultant at State Planning Board, Kerala. A new writer, "Few Sensible Things" is the second story he has written, and his first published story. dev_nair@yahoo.com. R. VIRGIL (Ron) ELLIS lives near Cambridge, Wisconsin. He has most recently placed poems with Switched-on Gutenberg, Fiction International, WordWrights, New Works Review, new digressions, Recursive Angel, 2River View, The Wolf Head Quarterly, The Lucid Stone, and Mississippi Review Web. He can be contacted at rvellis@ampps.com. ROBERT KLEIN ENGLER was born in Chicago. He holds degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana and The University of Chicago Divinity School. He worked many years as a department chairman and as a faculty union leader at the City Colleges of Chicago until he was ethnically cleansed and banned by the chancellor in May, 1997. He now teaches at Roosevelt University. His poems and stories have appeared in Borderlands, Hyphen, Christopher Street, The James White Review, American Letters and Commentary, Kansas Quarterly, and many other magazines and journals. He was the recipient of Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards for his poem, "Flower Festival at Genzano," which appeared in Whetstone, and "Three Poems for Kabbalah," which appeared in Fish Stories, II. His work has previously appeared in Facets, and his current poem, "Executive Order," was featured in the preview of this issue. RKleinEngler@aol.com SHELLEY ETTINGER is writing her first novel, for which she was recently awarded a travel and research grant by the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Inc. She was also awarded a three-week residency at Norcroft: A Writing Retreat for Women, which she completed in July 2001. Shelley is a secretary at New York University, and an anti-war activist. se30@nyu.edu JENNIFER GLICKSTEIN grew up in Chicago, which she recently discovered means "smelly wild onion place," and she now lives and writes in Evanston, Illinois. She writes, reads, and rewrites whenever a respite from routine can be found. She has had her fingers in all sorts of artistic pies since she was able to walk and talk simultaneously. Some of her work can be found in The 3rd Muse (www.3rdmuse.com), The Body Inside (volumes 3 and 4, www.enteract.com/~zine/) Comrades June, 2001 issue (www.comrade.org.uk) and My Web Press (www.mywebpress.net). More poetry and information about her editorial services can be found on her website at www.twindogs.net. jenniferglickstein@hotmail.com KEVIN HARVEY is a professor of English at New England College in Henniker, NH. A selection from his O'Connor Continues will appear in 5-Trope, (www.webdelsol.com/5_trope/) and he has just finished a work entitled The French Impressionist Wrestler, a play set lovingly in Worcester, Mass. CHRIS JACKSON took an MFA from George Mason University. He's had or will have poems in Main Street Rag, The Lucid Stone, The Washington Review, Poetry Motel, Rhino, Both Magazine, and Bridge. He misses hanging out in the woods in suburban Massachusets, right after Brent Nielsen has fallen almost into the fire, right before the cops come and we run. crassick@aol.com ZYSKANDAR A. JAIMOT has been published in the Americas and Europe in various journals and anthologies. About his work, he writes: poetry is the night when after bouts of momentary consummation i peel the residue of sticky sonnets from off my sweaty skin. And so he finds himself in Orlando, using the humid nights and the sun to write what he hopes is meaningful poetry. jaimot@hotmail.com RICHARD JORDAN is a PhD Mathematician who also considers himself a poet.  He lives and works in Northern Virginia. His poems have appeared, or will appear soon, in Concrete Wolf, Free Verse Poetry Journal, The Guild, Reflections, Impetus, Snakeskin, 3rd Muse Poetry Journal, PoetryRepairShop, ZygZag, Ken*again, 13th Warrior Review,  Poetry Super Highway, Beginnings, and Joey and the Black Boots. sdjordan1@juno.com WARD KELLEY has seen more than 700 of his poems appear in journals worldwide since he began publishing in 1996. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Kelley's publication credits include such journals as: ACM Another Chicago Magazine, Rattle, Ginger Hill, Sunstone, Spillway, Porcupine Literary Magazine, Pif, Melic Review, 2River View, Offcourse, Potpourri, and Skylark. He has been honored as featured poet for Seeker Magazine, Physik Garden, Poetry Life & Times, and Pyrowords. Times, and Canada's Pyrowords. Recently he was the recipient of the Nassau Review Poetry Awardfor 2001. His work has also appeared in a previous issue of Facets. His novel, Divine Murder, has just been published by Word Wrangler Press. http://www.wardkelley.com; ward708@aol.com TERRY PHIPPS LANE resides inn Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with her 12-year-old daughter, Sarah. Terry is a freelance wrier and Web project manager, providing writing services to local businesses and Web customers from Vermont to California to Florid. She is currently working on a book of verse, a sci-fi story, and a nonfiction historical work about prostitution in Lancaster County. terrylane@earthlink.net Since September 1999, DUANE LOCKE has had 1,586 poems accepted by e zines. Prior, over 2,000 by print magazines.  Soon, 4,000 poems.  Latest book: Watching Wistera. duanelocke@netzero.net JOSEPH MCLAUGHLIN recently retired as an associate professor of English at Stark State College of Technology in Canton, Ohio. His most recent collection of poems was Memory, InYour Country (Pale Horse Press, 1995). JosephMcL@aol.com DIANE PAYNE, her ten-year-old daughter, and two dogs, and I live in a dry town where I teach writing at the University of Arkansas-Monticello. My nose is still crooked. diane@seark.net VICKILYNN SHEPPARD is anative-born Kentuckian and proud of it. She enjoys writing poetry, short stories and is working on a novel. She is 44 years old with green eyes. All other physical details seem to change--often without her consent. She believes in telling the truth...even in fiction. vickilynn_smiles@yahoo.com Born in 1976, DANIEL SUMRALL has a BA in Philosophy and English and is currently an MFA student at the University of Notre Dame. His work has appeared in the online journal, RedRiverReview, Wavelength, and will be appearing in Poetry Motel. His work appeared in the inaugural issue of Facets. danterabanowitz@yahoo.com M. J. TENERELLI is a freelance writer, poet, and single mother of two small children living on the North Shore of Long Island. Her work has appeared in a number of online journals, including ZuZu's Petals, Another Sun and The Poetry Superhighway. Her work recently appeared in the summer edition of the print journal The American Muse. mjtenerelli@hotmail.com R. DEAN TRIBBLE is a former photographer and publicity writer who wrote his first poem at age ten to advertise a square dance party. He was paid fifty cents. Now retired he writes poetry seriously. He has had acceptances at Concrete Wolf, Cappers, Grit, and Midwest Poetry Review.rnbtribble@msn.com DENNIS VANNATTA has published stories in many magazines and anthologies, including TheQuarterly, Antioch Review and Pushcart XV. Two of his short story collections have been published by White Pine Press: THIS TIME, THIS PLACE (1991) and PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD (1994)  He is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. KELLEY WHITE was born and raised in New Hampshire, has degrees from Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School, and has been a pediatrician in inner-city Philadelphia for the past twenty years. In her first year and a half of submitting her work to be published, she has had over 250 poems accepted or published by more than one hundred journals including American Writing, The Cafè Review, Feminist Studies, and most recently, Whiskey Island Magazine. A book of her "medical" poems, The Patient Presents, has been published this month by The People's Press in Baltimore and a chapbook of very different material, "I am going to walk toward the sanctuary," will be published this summer by Nepenthe Books/Via Dolorosa Press. She received a Pushcart nomination for an experimental piece (from Gravity Presses) in 2000. kelleywhitemd@yahoo.com JAMES R. WHITLEY, although originally from New York, currently lives in Boston. His work has been published in several journals, including Coal City Review, Icon, Peregrine, Prosodia, and Salt Fork Review. His first chapbook, Pietà (Pudding House Publications, 2001), was a finalist in both the Summer 2000 National Looking Glass Poetry Chapbook Competition and the Maryland state Poetry and Literary Society's 2000 Chapbook Contest. Also, his book-length manuscript Immersion was selected by Lucille Clifton as teh winner of the 2001 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award and will be published by Lotus Press. JWhite999@aol.com HOME