Jack Myers has written fifteen books of and about poetry, the latest being The Glowing River: New & Selected Poems (Invisible Cities, 2001), which won the Violet Crown Award. In January, Heinle will release his The Poet�s Portable Workshop: A Field Guide to Poetic Technique. Myers is the 2003 Texas Poet Laureate and teaches poetry writing at Southern Methodist University and the Vermont College/Union Institute MFA Program in Writing. (2003)