Steve Abbott is a former delivery truck driver, courtroom bailiff, private investigator, PR flack, and college professor. He edits Ohio Poetry Association’s annual member journal Common Threads and co-hosts The Poetry Forum, the Midwest’s longest-running weekly poetry reading series. He has published four poetry chapbooks and has a full-length collection forthcoming from Kattywompus Press.

Burning a Failed Poem on New Year’s Day, Volume 3, Issue 2