Alan Shapiro’s In Praise of the Impure

The first poetry collection of Joe Osterhaus, The Domed Road, appeared in Take Three: AGNI New Poets Series: 1 (Graywolf, 1996). His poems also appear in The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology (Middlebury College Press, 2000) and American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000). He lives in Washington, DC. (updated 2000)