Philip Wexler lives in Bethesda, Maryland and is retired after a long career at the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Well over 220 of his poems have appeared in magazines. His six books of poetry are The Sad Parade (prose poems), and The Burning Moustache, both published by Adelaide Books, The Lesser Light by Finishing Line Press, With Something Like Hope (Silver Bow Publishing), I Would be the Purple (Kelsay Books) and Bozo's Obstacle, the latter released just last month by In Case of Emergency Press.  He also hosts Words out Loud, a poetry reading series in Kensington, Maryland.