Richard Cecil's fourth collection of poems, Twenty-First Century Blues, was published by Southern Illinois UP in 2004. He teaches at Indiana University, Bloomington, and at the Spalding Brief Residence MFA Program.

Other poems by Richard Cecil in Verse Daily:
November 1, 2005:   "My Personal Theory of Evolution" " No sea-view condos under half a million..."
February 25, 2003:  "Fame and Fortune Cookie" "'You've got talent but you lack ambition'..."

About Tar River Poetry:
Poets in this issue: Claudia Emerson, Michael White, Jeffrey Franklin, Leslie Norris, Rebecca McClanahan, James Brasfield, Cindy Hunter Morgan, Thomas Reiter, Chris Dombrowski, Richard Cecil, Don Welch, Roger Mitchell, J. T. Ledbetter, Louis Simpson, Peter Makuck, J. Stephen Rhodes, Marsha Truman Cooper, Richard Newman, Emily Smith, Jan LaPerie, Janice Moore Fuller, Howard Nelson, Jack Roberts, Carri Hendricks, Cody Lumpkin, Tim Peeler, Ronald Wallace, Susan Allen Ford, Phebe Davidson, Mike W. Blottenberger, Mary Hutchins Harris, M. J. Iuppa