Brian Kates is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. His non-fiction book, “The Murder of a Shopping Bag Lady,” was hailed by the New York Times as “a book in the grand journalistic tradition.” His poems have appeared in Paterson Literary Review, Third Wednesday, Gyroscope Review, Banyan Review and elsewhere.  He is a founding member of River Hook Poets, which works to make poetry part of the landscape of the lower Hudson Valley.