STEVEN RATINER’s collection Grief’s Apostrophe will be issued by Beltway Editions in 2025. He’s previously published three chapbooks––and his poetry has appeared in scores of journals in America and abroad including Parnassus, Agni, Hanging Loose, Poet Lore, Salamander, QRLS (Singapore), HaMusach (Israel), and Poetry Australia. He’s also written poetry criticism for The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and The San Francisco Chronicle. Giving Their Word – Conversations with Contemporary Poets was re-issued in a paperback edition (University of Massachusetts Press) and features interviews with many of contemporary poetry’s most important figures. He has just completed his third term as the Poet Laureate for Arlington, Massachusetts. His weekly Red Letter Poems features a diverse range of poets, from up-and-coming talents to some of the most important voices from America and abroad. (steven.arlingtonlaureate@gmail.com).
