Poetry. Mark Wallace lives in Washington, D.C., where he edits the poetry magazine Situation and runs the Ruthless Grip Art Project Experimental Poetry Series. His book reviews appear regularly in The Washington Review, and he teaches writing and literature at several D.C. area colleges. Mark Wallace's wonderfully sharp, self reflexive, and darkly humorous sonnets are wisdom teeth stolen from the golden mouths of metaphysical hucksters, penny-a-line journalists, late 20th century loners, liars, and poetic hit-men. -- Charles Borkhuis. Mark Wallace creates a poetics of paradoxes. The reader is stunned by the sheer intelligence of it, yet there is warmth and an almost frightening vulnerability. Mark Wallace is a visionary who refuses to deny what he sees. His poems are sensitive and important -- Susan Smith Nash.