C. Mikal Oness is the author of Oracle Bones, winner of the Lewis & Clark Poetry Prize, and Water Becomes Bone (New Issues Press). His poems have appeared in numerous journals throughout the U.S. “On the Sprocket Side of the Hayrake” was a finalist for the Ireland’s Ballymaloe Poetry Prize and appeared in The Moth. He lives on a cottage farm in Southeastern Minnesota with his wife, Elizabeth Oness. He is the founding editor of Sutton Hoo Press, a literary fine press, as well as a new imprint The Last Press (www.thelastpress.com). A collection of tanka, Notes from the Hermitage, was just released as a fine press book from No Reply Press in Portland, OR, and a collection of essays on the craft of fine printing and publishing, and subsequently, life, is also forthcoming from No Reply Press. His latest collection, Works and Days, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press.