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.