Rich Follett is a High School English, Theatre, and Mythology teacher who has been writing poems and songs for more than 35 years. His poems have been featured in numerous online and print journals, including BlazeVox, The Montucky Review, Paraphilia, Leaf Garden Press and CounterExample Poetics, for which he is a featured artist. Two volumes of poetry, Responsorials (with Constance Stadler) and Silence, Inhabited, are available through NeoPoiesis Press (www.neopoiesispress.com). A third volume with NeoPoiesis, Human &c., will be released in the spring of 2013. He lives with his wife Mary Ruth Alred Follett in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where he also pursues his interests as a professional actor, singer/songwriter, playwright and director.