Barbara Cole received her Masters in poetry in 1998. Her thesis manuscript was titled Little Wives. She has since received her Ph.D. from the Poetics Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her chapbooks include little wives (Potes & Poets, 1998) and postcards (BeautifulSwimmer Press, 1998). In 2002, Handwritten Press published the first chapbook-length section of her ongoing project, situ ation come dies. /ubu editions published the latest installment, from foxy moron, in Spring 2004. Recent poems have appeared in kenning, ixnay, combo, American Poetry Review (Philly Edition), DC Arts, Verdure, Open Letter and pom2. Critical articles include “Bruce Andrews’s Venus: Paying Lip Service to écriture féminine” for Jacket magazine and “To Do as Eve Did: How Emily Dickinson and Ronald Johnson Build Eden,” forthcoming in Ronald Johnson: Life and Works.