Mark GrinyerMark Grinyer has published poetry in print and on-line literary magazines across the U. S. and overseas. His poems have been published in Samisdat, Green's Magazine, The Kansas Quarterly, The Literary Review, The Spoon River Quarterly, The Pacific Reiew, Perigee, Cordite, and a number of other magazines. Approaching Poetry, is his first chapbook, and is being published by Finishing Line Press. He received a PhD in English and American Literature from the University of California, Riverside. He has a particular interest in the role of poetry and poets as participants in modern society, and in the use of natural scenes and images as vehicles for understanding our place in the modern world. He currently lives in Corona, California, and is seeking publishers for several books of poems. Read More Read Less