Merrill LefflerMerrill Leffler has published two previous collections of poetry, Partly Pandemonium, Partly Love (Dryad Press, 1982) and Take Hold (Dryad Press, 1997). Originally a physicist-engineer at NASA, he did graduate studies in literature t the University of Maryland and Oxford University, taught literature at the U.S. Naval Academy, went on to become senior science writer at the University of Maryland Sea Grant Program. The publisher of Dryad Press, Leffler has guest-edited issues of various magazines, among them, Poet Lore on Israeli poetry: The Changing Orders and Shirim: The Poetry of Eytan Eytan, which he and Moshe Dor translated from the Hebrew. He is a founder of The Writer's Center (Bethesda, Maryland) and currently writes the Vox Poetica column for the Voice newspapers in Maryland. Read More Read Less