David Garrison:  

I've been living in Dayton, Ohio, for the last thirty-two years, teaching Spanish and Portuguese at Wright State University. I retired in 2009 and love the freedom. My wife, Suzanne, is six years younger than I am and still teaches law at the university. We play tennis year round and sail in the summer. She writes stories, I write poems. If you would like to look at some of my stuff, just google David Lee Garrison (my writer name). One of my recent poems is in Garrison Keillor's anthology, Good Poems, American Places (Viking), and it's in all the bookstores. My new book of poems, Playing Bach in the D. C. Metro, is available through Browser Books Publishing or from Amazon.com. It has some high school poems in it, as does my earlier book, Sweeping the Cemetery, from the same publisher. Here's a poem I wrote about one of our classmates, whom I'm sure you'll recognize: Long Division by David Lee Garrison When as children we teased him with the nickname Carrot Top, Don shot back, “Carrot tops are green!” In his twenties, though, he bleached his hair a ru...Expand for more