This week we welcome John Beer as our guest blogger. John is the author of The Waste Land and Other Poems (Canarium,
2010), which received the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry
Society of America. His chapbook Lucinda is just out from Spork Press,
and he has edited Poems (1962-1997), forthcoming from Wave Books in the
fall. He teaches creative writing at Portland State University.
Welcome, John.
— sdh