Cushing Street Poetry Series is finishing 2006 with a pair of young poets, each with new books coming out. From Tucson, Morgan Lucas Schuldt and from Phoenix, Sarah Vap.

Morgan Lucas Schuldt is the author of Verge (Parlor Press: Free Verse Editions, forthcoming Fall 2007) and Otherhow (Kitchen Press, forthcoming Spring 2007), a chapbook. A graduate from the University of Arizona’s MFA program, Morgan is also the editor of the literary magazine, CUE: A Journal of Prose Poetry. His poems have appeared in Verse, LIT, Chelsea, Pleiades, POOL, and the Massachusetts Review, among others, and in the anthologies Prose Poetry / Flash Fiction: An Anthology (Stacherone, 2006) and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, 2nd Floor (No Tell Books, 2007). He teaches in the English Department at the University of Arizona where he's ever so slowly pursuing his PhD in English Literature.

Sarah Vap is the author of Dummy Fire (Winner of the 2006 Saturnalia Books Contest) and American Spikenard (Recipient of the 2006 Iowa Poetry Prize). Vap grew up in Missoula, Mont. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from Arizona State University in 2005 and currently teaches creative writing at Phoenix College and in the Phoenix public schools for ASU's Young Writers Program. Her work has been published in Field, the Denver Quarterly, the Colorado Review and Natural Bridge. She is currently a poetry editor for the online journal 42opus.