Robert Lietz is a professor of English and Creative Writing (fiction and poetry) at Ohio Northern University. Two hundred and fifty of his poems have appeared in more than one hundred journals in the U.S. and Canada, including Agni Review, Carolina Quarterly, Epoch, The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, and Poetry. Seven collections of poems have been published, including Running in Place (1979, L'Epervier Press,) At Park and East Division (1981, L'Epervier Press,) The Lindbergh Half Century (1987, L'Epervier Press,) The Inheritance (1988, Sandhills Press,) and Storm Service (1994, Basfal Books). Basfal also published After Business in the West: New and Selected Poems in August, 1996.