Lessons of Darkness

Alan Catlin is retired from his unchosen profession as
a barman. In his spare time, he has been publishing for
parts of six decades in little, minuscule, not so little,
literary, and university publication: from the Wormwood
Review to the Wisconsin Review to Tray Full of Lab Rats,
to Wordsworth's Socks, to The Literary Review and so forth.
His chapbook, Blue Velvet, won the Slipstream Chapbook
Contest in 2017. One of his more recent full length books
is Last Man Standing, from Lummox Press, detailing his
life and times walking to the bus stop, busing to work,
and, at his former job, continuing an earlier, similarly
arranged book, the now out of print, underground classic,
The Schenectady Chainsaw Massacre. For his sins he is
the poetry and review editor of misfitmagazine.net, an
online poetry journal.