Magnapoets issue 5 is off to the printers! Have a look at our beautiful cover photograph courtesy of Ben Kimball:

This issue contains our 2009 Pushcart Prize nominations, as well as work by Terese Akins Anthony, Pamela A. Babusci, Collin Barber, John Barlow, Cathy Drinkwater Better, Dawn Bruce, Helen Buckingham, Owen Bullock, Lerys Byrnes, Vaughan Chapman, Susan Constable, William Cullen Jr, Magdalena Dale,Amitava Dasgupta, Mario Desmarais III, Marc di Saverio, Curtis Dunlap, Patricia J. Edwards, Deborah Finkelstein, Ursula T. Gibson, Sanford Goldstein, Simon Green, Libby Hart, Peggy Heinrich, Jeff Hoagland, Gregory Hopkins, _kala, Mary Kipps, Joseph V. Kleponis, Gilda Kreuter, Geoffrey A. Landis, Darrell Lindsey, Chen-ou Liu, Peggy Willis Lyles, Joan McAuley, Gautam Nadkami, Wenda Nairn, ayaz daryl nielsen, old pajamas, Patricia Prime, Ed Roberts, Ruth Sabath Rosenthal, Alexis Rotella, Paul Rousseau, Natalia D. Rudychev, David Sergeant, Adelaide B. Shaw, R.K. Singh, Paul Smith, John Soules, Richard Stevenson, André Surridge, George Swede, Barbara A. Taylor, Lori Wall-Holloway, Dick Whyte, Liam Wilkinson, Richard K. Williams, Robert D. Wilson, Spiros Zafiris, and Brian Zimmer.