Brian KingBrian King writes from his experiences as a husband, father, brother, friend, student, critic, Fortune 500 computer engineer, consultant, technologist, hitchhiker, adventurer, painter, guitar player and parishioner. With a B.A. in Mathematics from Alany University and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University he brings a unique background to poetry. Raised in Syracuse, New York he eventually moved to Richmond, Virginia in 1982. His parents had a library with a complete set of Shakespeare, poetry anthologies, history and novels by Faulkner, Cheever and Updike. He was exposed to the articles in The New Yorker and Newsweek. As an undergraduate the books outside of required texts were outnumbered by those of Vonnegut, Wolfe, Tolkien, Updike, Tom Robbins and other contemporary authors. He had two decades of writing business proposals and technical documents before writing his first poem. After reading Spiritual Pilgrims-Carl Jung and Teresa of Avila he sensed a deeper need to write what he sensed and felt in the form of short poems. That led to joining the poetry organization River City Poets of Richmond, participating in critiques and public readings. After surveying one hundred and thirty poems he chose and edited fifty-one for the collection titled-Bone, Gristle and Fat. Read More Read Less