John Edwin Cowen has published poems widely in major literary magazines and is the former co-publisher of Bravo: The Poet's Magazine, founded by the late poet, Jose Garcia Villa. Cowen is Professor of Literacy and Education at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. He is the author of Mathematics of Love: Poems (Anaphora Literary Press, 2011) and POEMS FROM DYLAN'S WALES (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2012).