Frank AdamsFrank Adams grew up in small-town Missouri, the heart of the American Midwest. He has lived in New York City where he studied acting under the direction of Lee Strasberg, and in Yosemite Valley and Sonora, California, where he worked for the U. S. Naional Park Service. He has degrees in history and sociology from the University of Central Missouri with additional study at the University of Minnesota Split Rock Arts Program where he worked with poet Sharon Doubiago. His poems have appeared online at Downgo Sun and The Q Review, and in various anthologies including Kansas City Metropolitan Verse and Grist. He is the author of Crazy Times, MOTHER SPEAKS HER NAME (nominated in 2011 for the Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award), and LOVE REMEMBERED. Read More Read Less