Timothy Robbins has been teaching English as a Second Language for 30 years. He has been a regular contributor to Hanging Loose since 1980 and his poems have appeared in many other literary journals. He has published five volumes of poetry: Three New Poets (Hanging Loose Press), Denny’s Arbor Vitae (Adelaide Books), Carrying Bodies (Main Street Rag Press) Mother Wheel (Cholla Needles Press) and This Night I Sup in Your House (Cyberwit.net). He lives in Wisconsin with his husband of 25 years.