Acie Cargill is a poet, a songwriter, and a prose writer. He studied poetry with USA poet laureate Mark Strand and Illinois poet Laureate, Gwendolyn Brooks. He studied novel writing with Thomas Berger who wrote Little Big Man. Cargill also studied journalismwith Jean Dailey. His work is a synthesis of all these styles. He is a member of American Mensa and formerly edited the Mensa Journal of Poetry. He is also a member of the Grammy Association and the Quill and Scroll Society. Cargull is a vegetarian, a former holistic physician, a musical performer on several instruments, and environmental a...