Steven Ratiner has previously published three chapbooks and been featured in numerous anthologies; his worrk has appeared in scores of journals  in America and abroad including Parnassus, Agni, Hanging Loose, Poet Lore, Salamander, QRLS (Singapore), HaMusach (Israel), and Poetry Australia. For several years, he was the poetry book critic for the Washington Post and, prior to that, The Christian Science Monitor. He's also written essays on poetry, literature and art for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Arrowsmith Journal,Horizon magazine, and Yankee Magazine,Giving Their Word--Conversations with Contemporary Poets was re-issued in a paperback edition (University of Massachusetts Press) and includes interviews with many of contemporary poetry's most important figures. In 2022 Ratiner completed his third term as the Poet Laureate for Arlington, Massachusetts. His Laureate project--the weekly Red Letter Poems--continue today and features a diverse range of poets. (steven.arlingtonlaureate@gmail.com).  Steven Ratiner was recently elected as the new President of the New England Poetry Club, one of America's oldest poetry associations