Rodney Nelson (see far left below) was born in North Dakota and failed to grow up in San Francisco during the “first wave” of the hippie movement (1965-72). His poems saw print early enough (Georgia Review, 1970), and several small-press collections and novels (Thor’s Home and Villy Sadness, for example) appeared over time; however, between 1984 and 2004 he wrote nothing that looked like poetry. Thus all of the poems now showing up in ezines are new, and their author is more or less unknown. On the other hand, Nelson was well known enough as novelist and editor to be invited into the 2000 edition of Who’s Who in America. A lifelong nonacademic, he has been a licensed psychiatric technician, magazine editor, and freelance copy editor, spreading his life and lack of wealth and fame between North Dakota and Arizona. Several of his recent prose and proselike narrative pieces, including a novel, are archived on line at Retort Magazine of Melbourne. Nelson’s work has been in quite a few ezines: Big Bridge, Passenger May, Sugar Mule, Unlikely Stories, nthposition, and others. At present, he is in metacowboy camp at Fargo, North Dakota.