Scott T. Starbuck is the Interim Creative Writing Coordinator at San Diego Mesa College and lives near The Clackamas River in Oregon, a place he has fished over forty years. His poems can be heard at Fogged Clarity < http://foggedclarity.com/2010/01/january-2010/ >, and his claywork viewed at The Spirit of the Salmon Fund < http://www.critfc.org/Gala/07starbuck.html >. His new June 2010 chapbook, The Warrior Poems, a collection of protest poems and nature poems, was one of six finalists of over five hundred entries at the 2009 Pudding House Poetry Chapbook Competition, and was recently published by Pudding House. He can be reached at sstarbuc@sdccd.edu