Deborah Meadows teaches as an Emeritus faculty member in the Liberal Studies department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She lives with her husband in Los Angeles' Arts District/Little Tokyo where she serves on the board of LARABA (Los Angeles River Artists' and Business Association). She was nominated Los Angeles Poet Laureate in 2014.Her recent collections of poetry are TRANSLATION: THE BASS ACCOMPANIMENT SELECTED POEMS (Shearsman Press, 2013), SACCADE PATTERNS (BlazeVOX books, 2011), How, the means (Mindmade Books, 2010), DEPLETED BURDEN DOWN (Factory School, 2009), GOODB...