“Letter on the Eve” and Other Poems

Belle Randall has been poetry editor of Common Knowledge since its inception. Her poem “A Child's Garden of Gods” is included in the anthology The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of “Poetry” Magazine. Her books include 101 Different Ways of Playing Solitaire and Other Poems; The Orpheus Sedan; Drop Dead Beautiful; and The Coast Starlight. She is coeditor (with Richard Denner) of Exploding Flowers: Selected Poems of Luis Garcia. A recipient of the Inez Boulton Award of Poetry magazine, and the Anthony Hecht Prize of Waywiser Press, she has taught in several creative writing programs, including Stanford University's, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow.