Jimmy Pappas received an MA in English Literature from Rivier University. After serving in Saigon, South Vietnam, with the Palace Dog programme teaching English to South Vietnamese soldiers, he taught high school English, poetry, and philosophy for many years. Since his retirement, he has facilitated writing workshops for adults and young poets and has focused on putting together at least four collections of his poetry for publication. Pappas's poems have been published in such journals as Atticus Review, Red River Review, Kentucky Review, Poppy Road Review, The Poets' Touchstone, and War, Literature and the Arts. He is a recent first prize winner of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire's National Contest. [Poetry]