is a poet based in LA. His work has appeared in numerous journals, most notably Ploughshares, Ninth Letter, ArtLife, The Cortland Review and Runes. His new work is forthcoming in Field Rattle, Redivider, and Verse Wisconsin. His collection, Letters To Guns, was released in 2009 from Red Hen Press. He is currently poet-in-residence at The Windward School and Loyola Marymount University Extension. In addition, he offers workshops in hospitals, foster and elder care centers, and shelters for the homeless. In 2002 he was nominee for Poet Laureate for California.