Gary MetrasGary Metras is the author of eight books of poetry along with thirteen chapbooks. His White Storm (Presa Press, 2018) was selected as a Must Read title in the Massachusetts Books of the Year Program. His essays, reviews, and chiefly poems hae appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies since the 1970s, including America, American Life in Poetry, Boston Review of Books, California Quarterly, The Common, Connecticut Poetry Review, Gray's Sporting Journal, Hawai'i Pacific Review, New England Watershed, North Dakota Quarterly, Poetry, Poetry East, Poetry Salzburg Review, San Antonio Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, Tears in the Fence, (UK) and Visiting Frost: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Robert Frost (Iowa). A master letterpress printer, he founded and edited Adastra Press for forty years, releasing numerous fine press poetry limited editions. He lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts, where, in April 2018, he was appointed as the city's inaugural Poet Laureate. He is the author of CAPTIVE IN THE HERE (Cervena Barva Press, 2018). Read More Read Less