Mark DeFoe’s eighth book, Weekend Update, was published in 2008 by Main Street Rag Press. He won the 2001 Erskine J. Poetry Prize and the 2005 Chautauqua Literary National Poetry Competition. He lives in Buckhannon, West Virginia, and is Professor Emeritus at West Virginia Wesleyan College. His poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issues 5, 8, 10, 12, 13 and 16 (2009).
