Bob Sharkey resumed writing poetry after a pilgrimage to San Francisco's City Lights bookstore in 1995. His poems have appeared in several unsubsidized small press zines and publications. His work has also appeared locally in Metroland, Screed and Salvage. He is a frequent reader at capital region open mics and has been the featured reader a number of times recently. He is working (in his mind) on a number of projects and chapbooks. However, his immediate attention is devoted to dealing with the new poems that come to him daily and to supporting the local poetry and arts scene as much as possible.

POEMS

• Names
• Sweetheart
• 57
• Midnight
• The Morning After
• The Abscess