Mark Yakich Mark Yakich writes poems and paints pictures. His first book of poems, Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross, was a winner of the 2003 National Poetry Series and was published by Penguin Books. A companion book, The Making of Collateral Beauty, won Tupelo Press&;s Snowbound Chapbook Award. He is an assistant professor of English at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Arts &; Letters, Another Chicago Magazine, DIAGRAM, Indiana Review, and Spinning Jenny. Mark divides his time between the bedroom and the kitchen.

September 10th, 2006