Dennis Hinrichsen's recent works include Cage of Water, a full-length collection of poems, which will appear from the University of Akron Press in August 2004, and a chapbook, Message To Be Spoken into the Left Ear of God, which was published by Mayapple Press last spring. His other collections of poetry are The Attraction of Heavenly Bodies (Wesleyan/1983), The Rain That Falls This Far (Galileo/1991) and Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights (University of Akron Press/2000), which won the 1999 Akron Poetry Prize. He has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and two grants from the state of Michigan. His poems have appeared in American Literary Review, Black Warrior Review, Crab Orchard Review, Field, Notre Dame Review, and Passages North, have been featured on the Poetry Daily and The Academy of American Poets websites, and have won awards from Carolina Quarterly and Poetry Northwest. He teaches at Lansing Community College.