Ken Meisel is a poet and a psychotherapist. He was born on the west side of Detroit and educated in the Detroit Public Schools. He earned his post graduate degrees in Detroit. Ken Meiselas father played big band jazz with Sam Donahueas Orchestra, in Black Bottom, on Hasting Street in the 1930as and 1940as. Ken Meisel grew up listening to those stories. This is his fourth book of poetry and his first from Bottom Dog Press.