STEVEN RATINER’s collection Grief’s Apostrophe will be issued by Beltway Editions in March 2025. He’s previously published three chapbooks––and his poetry has appeared in scores of journals in America and abroad including Parnassus, Agni, Hanging Loose, Poet Lore, Salamander, QRLS (Singapore), HaMusach (Israel), and Poetry Australia. He’s also written poetry criticism for The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and The San Francisco Chronicle. Giving Their Word – Conversations with Contemporary Poets was re-issued in a paperback edition (University of Massachusetts Press) and features interviews with some of poetry’s most vital contemporary voices including Seamus Heaney, Mary Oliver, Charles Simic, Bei Dao, Maxine Kumin, and the last full-length interview with Bill Stafford before his death. In 2019, he was appointed as the Poet Laureate for Arlington, Massachusetts and completely three terms. By early 2020, he launched The Red Letters project. Red Letter Poems features a diverse range of poets, from up-and-coming talents to some of the most important voices from America and abroad. In 2024 we was tapped to become the new President of The New England Poetry Club.