Ray AmorosiRay Amorosi was born in Boston's North End in 1946. He earned an M.A. in English from Michigan State University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts. His books include A Generous Wall (Eastern Wahington University Press, 1976), Flim Flam (Lynx House Books, 1980), In Praise (Lost Horse Press, 2009), and GNAWING ON A THIN MAN (Willow Springs Editions, 2012). A fourth full- length volume, Lazarus, is forthcoming from Lost Horse Press. He has taught writing and literature at the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Northeastern University, and Adams State College. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Michigan Quarterly Review, FIELD, Crazyhorse, Willow Springs, Prairie Schooner, Kayak, New Letters, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, and many other publications. He lives in Marshfield Hills, Massachusetts. Read More Read Less