John McKernan grew up in the middle of Omaha Nebraska in the middle of the US. He has recently retired after teaching forty-one years at Marshall University. He wanders hither and yon on his goat and broccoli farm visited nightly by deer in West Virginia where he lives – mostly – and edits ABZ Press. He has published poems in many places from The Atlantic Monthly to Zuzu's Petals. His most recent book is a selected poems Resurrection of the Dust. Cha nominated his poem "We Used Chalk" for a Pushcart Prize in 2011. [Read]