Poetry. Author of two previous collections---including The Admirations, winner of the Oregon Book Award---Lex Runciman's poetry has appeared in New England Review, The Southern Review, Missouri Review, Northwest Review, and Hubbub. He is professor of English at Linfield College and a 2006 Pushcart Nominee, as well as a 2006 finalist for the Ekphrasis Prize. Kathleen Dean Moore says that his poems are "like music from an open window," and they "draw me into his life. So how is it that his childhood memories--the light at night, the wishing for water--can be so like my own? How can he love his daughters just as I love mine? And the sea, exactly as it is? This poet's truth, so perfect, so ringing clear, sings of the universal longing."