James Breslin, a retired Clinical Social Worker, is an active poet with two books of poems to his credit: The Crow and Other Poems, and Hummingbird, New and Collected Poems, Moon Pie Press, Westbook, ME. He has published in the Lyric, Aurorean, The Mother (Ireland), Off the Coast, Pulse, and Stanza; and has won several prizes from the Maine Poets Society. A friend of Ted Bookey’s, James has attended many of his UMASC Poetry and Humor classes.