About the Author

An eight-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a three-year Fulbright lecturer in Czechoslovakia, George Held taught English at Queens College for 37 years. His poems, short stories, book reviews, and translations have appeared in over a hundred publications including "Circumference," "Commonweal," "Confrontation," and "Notre Dame Review," and on Garrison Keillor's "A Writer's Almanac," as well as in more than forty anthologies. Held's nineteen poetry collections include "Bleak Splendor," "After Shakespeare: Selected Sonnets," and the "Neighbors" series, animal poems for children, illustrated by Joung Un Kim. George lives in Greenwich Village with his wife, Cheryl.