Laurence Musgrove is professor of English at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, where he teaches creative writing, literature, and comic studies. His new collection of poetry, Local Bird, is from Lamar University Literary Press. His poems have appeared in Southern Indiana Review, Concho River Review, Buddhist Poetry Review, Inside Higher Ed, Texas Poetry Calendar, Ink Brick, Red River Review, San Antonio Express-News, and New Texas. He cartoons at texosophy.com.