WHAT WE LOVE

Winner of the 2006 Blue Light Book Award~~~~Ed Meek has published poetry,fiction and articles in The ParisReview, Yankee, North DakotaQuarterly, Cream City Review, TheNorth American Review, The BostonGlobe, etc. He teaches at AustinPreparatory School and lives inBelmont with his wife and son.Winters, he snowboards. Summers, hetakes naps.~~~~~ "Ed meek digs underneath thebroad lawns and narrow mindsof the suburbs to unearth a deeper and at times darker,truth about ourselves and our lives."~Doug Holder, editor and publisher, Ibbetson Street Press~~~~ "Ed Meek's poetry has always impressed me. In these recentpoems, Meek is a master of his craft. His poems arebrilliant, fresh, and full of subtle surprises. That this newvolume of poetry has come out is a blessing. I have no hesitationin judging it one of the year's best."~James Chichetto, editor, The Connecticut Poetry Review~~~~ "Poets are most important when politicians and advertisersare most energetically and dishonestly bending wordsagainst meaning, trying to fool us and sell us rather thandelight us and shock us into recognition. The best poems arethe antidote to lies and fraud, and false advertising. Ed meek'spoems, apparently humble and unassuming but oftenwonderfully surprising, show us what's real and true, whetherit's terrifying or funny as hell."~Bill Littlefield, host of national public radio's "Only a Game."