Linda LernerLinda Lerner is a New York City Poet, born and raised in Brooklyn where she now lives. She is the author of many poetry collections and has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her most recent collections are: YES, THE DUCKS WERE REAL, (NYQ Boos, 2015) and TAKES GUTS AND YEARS SOMETIMES (NYQ Books, 2011). In 1995, she and Andrew Gettler founded POETS on the line (http: //www.echonyc.com/ poets) the first poetry anthology available on the internet. For Nos. 6&7 (1997/98) the Vietnam Veterans / Poets issue she received a 1997 Puffin Foundations Grant & Ludwig Vogelstein Grant. POETS on the line will be kept permanently on the Net, though it ceased publication with the Millennium issue, (9&10). Her poems have appeared in The New York Quarterly, Louisiana Review, Paterson Literary Review, Onthebus, VAN GOGH'S EAR, Home Planet News, BigCityLit, Chance of A Ghost Anthology, Ragged Lion Anthology, Big Hammer, and Danse Macabre. Read More Read Less