About the Author

Wally Swist has published seventeen books and chapbooks of poetry. A short biographical documentary film regarding his work, "In Praise of the Earth," was released by award-winning filmmaker Elizabeth Wilda (WildArts, 2008). Also, he has published a scholarly monograph, "The Friendship of Two New England Poets, Robert Frost and Robert Francis" (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009). A recording of a poem from his reading in the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, accompanied by jazz cellist Eugene Friesen, a member of Paul Winter Consort, is archived at npr.org.