Bill Howell’s sixth poetry collection, The Way Things Are at the Moment, is scheduled to be released by American publisher Kelsay Books in June. He has recent work in Canadian Literature, The Dalhousie Review, Great Lakes Review, The Orchards Poetry Journal, Queen’s Quarterly, Tokyo Poetry Journal, and Two Thirds North. Born in Liverpool, England, he grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and has lived in Toronto for more than half his life. Bill was a network producer-director at CBC Radio Drama for three decades.