Larry Colker has been co-hosting the weekly Redondo Poets reading at Coffee Cartel in Redondo Beach for 15 years. He is the author of four chapbooks: At the Curb, Car Waiting, Boy Standing (1997); What the Lizard Knows (2003); Hunger Crossing (with Danielle Grilli, 2006); Girl with Tattooed Heart, Boy Standing (2008). In 2007 his submission won first place for poetry in the California Writers Exchange contest, sponsored by Poets & Writers, Inc. His first book-length collection, Amnesia and Wings, was published by Tebot Bach in 2013 (available at www.tebotbach.org and www.amazon.com). His poems have been published in Rattle, The Los Angeles Review, The Cortland Review, Burnside Review, The Mas Tequila Review, Malpaís Review, Askew, Spillway, Poeticdiversity.com, and other print and online journals.