James Bertolino’s poetry has appeared internationally in books, magazines and anthologies for over 40 years. His poetry won the Book-of-the-Month Club Poetry Fellowship, the Discovery Award, a Hart Crane publication award, an NEA fellowship, and two Quarterly Review of Literature book awards, among others. His latest volume is Pocket Animals: 60 Poems.
Editor’s Note: All the poems printed in this article are a collaboration of the two authors, James Bertolino and Anita K. Boyle. “Hard Candy” first appeared in the print journal Cranky, No. 1, 2004 as did James Bertolino’s instructional essay … Continue reading →