JOSHUA MARIE WILKINSON most recent collection of poetry is Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk, which won the 2005 Iowa Poetry Prize and was released this past spring. He is also the author of an illustrated chapbook entitled A Ghost as King of the Rabbits (New Michigan Press, 2005) and a book-length poem called Suspension of a Secret in Abandoned Rooms (Pinball, 2005).  A tour film about the band Califone is forthcoming in 2007 and a new book, an anthology, and a book-length collaboration with poet Noah Eli Gordon are all underway, and Pilot Books will publish a new chapbook entitled The Book of Flashlights, Clover, & Milk in Spring, 2007. Presently, he makes his home in Colorado and teaches at Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design and at University of Denver where he is completing a doctorate.

You will build a ship with pigeons & a city of rope. You will listen with your

pockets emptying. What you forget is up to you.