This section showcases by-invitation-only work by talented colleagues, along with my own poetry, composed over the years in various locales and variegated states of mind -- from Boston (where I graduated from Boston University with a degree in English literature in 1991, amid intellectual ferment and social debauchery) to Tucson, this burgeoning desert vortex where I've hung my hat since 1992. ("Yeah, but it's a dry heat.")