Poetry. Earning an M.F.A. in Poetry from Indiana University, Barbara Koons has been involved with the Writers' Center of Indiana for twenty years, serving as events coordinator and director of the Poetry In The Gallery reading series. Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Earths Daughters, The Flying Island, and The Hopewell Review. Koons was also named First Finalist for poetry in the 2006 Best Books of Indiana Awards given by the Indiana State Library. "Bruised love, betrayal, loss--these subjects haunt Barbara Koons fine first poetry collection," says poet Andrea Hollander Budy. "While the past is impossible to recover, Koons does not dwell on stagnation; instead her poems journey toward resolution and renewal. When her "old house crumbles," the speaker builds a new one, her new life as sturdy as the young pine tree she plants beside its front door."