Daniel Bowman Jr.'s work has appeared in The Adirondack Review, American Poetry Journal, The Bitter Oleander, Main Street Rag, The Midwest Quarterly, Redactions: Poetry & Poetics, Rio Grande Review, Seneca Review, and other journals. Currently he is completing an MFA at Seattle Pacific University. He lives in upstate New York, where he teaches writing at Houghton College. His poems appearing in this issue (issue #10) of Cha were inspired by The Village Beyond: Poems of Noboku Kimura, translated by Hiroaki Sato (P.S., A Press, 2002), and are dedicated to its author. Visit Bowman's website for more details. [Read]