Brian Barker won The Editor's Prize from Tupelo Press for a first book of poems, and his book, The Animal Gospels, will be published by Tupelo in the spring of 2006. Read More His poems, reviews, and interviews have appeared in such journals as Poetry, Agni, Quarterly West, American Book Review, The Wrtier's Chronicle, The Indiana Review, Sou'wester, and Pleiades. He currently works as the Assistant Director of The Center for the Literary Arts at the University of Missouri and as managing editor of the journal Center.