Living in Sylvania, Ohio, and finally retired. A lover of poetry since high school. Writing, and especially writing poetry, has been one of the great consistent parts of my life for decades. It was given a huge boost when I came to know Jesus just after high school. Favorite poets? Irina Ratushinskaya (numero uno--talk about an exemplar of Christ, in her life and her writing), Osip Mandelstam, Boris Pasternak, Ken Gibble, Matthew Spireng, TS Eliot, Alan Altany, Joseph Brodsky . . . . I'd better stop. The list is too long.