Guest Editor: Nancy Scott

Nancy Scott is the current managing editor of U.S. 1 Worksheets, the journal of the U.S. 1 Poets' Cooperative in New Jersey. She is the author five books of poetry. Her most recent, On Location, a collection of ekphrastic poems about works of art, was published by March Street Press in 2011. I reprinted Nancy's poem "The Shearling" in The Lineup #4. Her "Smack" was the inaugural 5-2 Poem of The Week, and "The Hardest Thing" will run April 16.

As The 5-2's first guest editor, Nancy chose the Poem of the Week for May 28–June 3, 2012, "Tinseltown" by John M. Floyd.