Webster YoungWebster Young has been a journalist on music and culture for newspapers and journals, including Newsday and the National Catholic Register. Young has been a candidate for Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. His stories for ballet and lyrcs for opera have been performed on musical theater stages. His family is related to the essential Broadway playwright and lyricist, Otto Harbach, who wrote ""Smoke Gets in Your Eyes."" Young was raised in New York City and has lived in California and New Mexico. He first excelled at writing poetry at age 11 and received a literary award from the DAR a year later. At age 16, his poems published in the Deerfield Journal earned him a place in the English literature class of Robert McGlynn (teacher and inspirer of John McPhee). While at the University of California in the 1960s and 70s, Young's artistic mentor was a close friend of the Catholic poet Brother Antoninus (William Everson). John Axline is a documentary and ballet filmmaker (Two for Ballet [PBS], The Swan Lake Story [Disney], and 6000 Miles to Ukraine). Like Webster Young, he has lived in California and New Mexico and has much the same feeling as the poet for these states. Read More Read Less