Duane Locke has been Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, Poet in Residence at University of Tampa for over twenty years. Over 2,000 of his poems have been published in over 500 print magazines. He has had over 1,000 poems accepted by electronic zines. He is the author of 14 books of poetry, his latest being Watching Wisteria (Vida Publishing, 1995). He has won the Edna St. Vincent Millay, Charles Agnoff, and Walt Whitman awards for poetry. (2000)