Professor and poet Ryan David Leack is the author of several collections of poetry, including Faces in the Mirror (2008) and Remember the Planes (2010). He teaches rhetoric, composition, and literature at Cal Poly Pomona, and has published in journals such as RipRap, The Cave, and Pomona Valley Review, which he now edits. He lives a quiet life with his wife in Pomona seeking some kind of Thoreauvian tranquility and harmony with words.