Gerald Fleming's poetry and prose poems have appeared widely over the past thirty years. He has won numerous awards and fellowships, and between 1995 and 2000 he edited and published the literary magazine Barnabe Mountain Review, whose archives can be found at U.C. Berkeley's Bancroft Library. His most recent books of poetry are THE CHOREOGRAPHER (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2013), NIGHT OF PURE BREATHING (Hanging Loose Press, 2011), and SWIMMER CLIMBING ONTO SHORE (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2005). He has taught in the San Francisco public schools for thirty-seven years, and has published three books fo...