"Barometric"
by Janet Sylvester
The Georgia Review
Winter 2005

Janet Sylvester:

Janet Sylvester has published two books of poetry, That Mulberry Wine (Wesleyan) and The Mark of Flesh (W. W. Norton). Poems have also appeared, or are forthcoming, in Best American Poetry, Pushcart Prize XXVIII, TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, Georgia Review, and Harvard Review, among many others. Working on a new book, tentatively titled A Visitor at the Gate, she teaches at Sweet Briar College, in Virginia, and in the low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

About The Georgia Review:

Since its inception in 1947, The Georgia Review has grown steadily to its current position as one of America's premier journals of arts and letters. Each quarterly issue offers a rich gathering of stories, essays, poems, book reviews, and visual art orchestrated to invite and sustain repeated readings. Is it any wonder that over seventy percent of our readers add our issues to their permanent libraries? Or that The Review received the 1986 National Magazine Award in Fiction for stories by Mary Hood, Lee K. Abbott, and Gary Gildner.

Writers featured in The Review range from Nobel laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners to the most deserving newer voices — including many who have never published before. Such well known figures as Eudora Welty, John Edgar Wideman, Eavan Boland, William Stafford, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and Philip Levine join emerging writers like Gordon Johnston and Brad Barkley in the quarterly that Magazines for Libraries calls "one of the best bargains in American publishing."

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