Gerald Locklin teaches at California State University, Long Beach, and is the author of over eighty books and chapbooks, including Go West, Young Toad: Selected Writings and Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet (Water Row Press), The Firebird Poems, The First Time He Saw Paris (in Two Novellas), and Down and Out: A Novel for Adults (Event Horizon Press), The Hospital Poems (Kings Estate Press), and The Active Ingredient (Liquid Paper Press). Two volumes of The Locklin Biblio, edited by Mark Weber, are available from Zerx Press, as are a number of chapbooks of his jazz poems. He co-edited A New Geography of Poets (University of Arkansas Press).