Dennis Hinrichsen is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: “The Attraction of Heavenly Bodies,” “The Rain That Falls This Far,” and most recently, “Detail from the Garden of Earthly Delights,” which won the 1999 Akron Poetry Prize. A fourth collection, “Cage of Water,” will be published by the University of Akron Press in 2004. He has a BA in English from Western Michigan University and an MFA from the University of Iowa. Among his awards and achievements are a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, two grants from the Michigan Council for the Arts, and prizes from The Carolina Quarterly and Poetry Northwest. His work has appeared in numerous journals including “AGNI,” “Black Warrior Review,” “Crab Orchard Review,” “Field,” “Notre Dame Review,” “Passages North” and “Third Coast.”