Janet Buck teaches writing and literature at the college level. Her essays and poetry have appeared in The Recursive Angel, The Melic Review, Gravity, and several dozen other periodicals. Janet's poetry sites on the web have received more than thirty awards, including the distiguished "Predators and Editors: Author's Site of Excellence" and "The Circle of the Muses Award of Inspiration." "Writing," she says, " is a tuba in a long parade that chases pain and sorrow to its dissolution."