Bruce SpangBruce Spang, former Poet Laureate of Portland, is the author of three novels: The River Crossed from Wisdom House Books, The Deception of the Thrush, and Those Close Beside Me. He's also published five other books of poems: It Goes Like This, All Youll Derive: A Caregiver's Journey, To the Promised Land Grocery and Boy at the Screen Door (Moon Pie Press) along with several other books, anthologies and two chapbooks. He is the poetry editor of the Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine. His poems have been published in Connecticut River Review, Puckerbrush Review, Red Rover Magazine, Asheville Literary Review, Great Smokies Review, Stoneboat Literary Journal, Muleskinner Journal, Kalopsia Literary Journal, Café Review and other journals across the United States. He teaches courses in fiction and poetry at Great Smokies Writing Program at University of North Carolina in Asheville and lives in Candler, NC with his husband Myles Rightmire and their three dogs, five fish, and twenty birds. Read More Read Less