Powerful and acutely relevant, Howie's verse grips the reader with accessible lines and unique metaphors while exploring psychological hunger in poems such as "Meditation on a Candle Flame" and "fragments of my ruin," and the vast realm of social pain in poems such as "Dead Peasants" and "August 6, 1945."

From Red & Gold: "Things shine/as if we swindled/the sun/out of its gold..."

Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of 19 previous print and digital poetry chapbooks and a full-length collection, Lovesick, published by Press Americana. His second full-length collection, Heart With a Dirty Windshield, will be published by BeWrite Books. He has been nominated multiple times for a Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net anthology. He is co-editor of the online literary journal Left Hand Waving.