Meet the Poet
Gary Metras
Gary Metras is the author of Two Bloods: Fly Fishing Poems, winner of the Split Oak Press Chapbook Award 2010, Francis D'Asissi 2008, Finishing Line Press 2008, selected as Recommended by the Massachusetts Center of the Book 2009, along with thirteen other chapbooks and three books of poems. His poems, essays and reviews have appeared in such journals as Blueline, Boston Review of Books, Connecticut Poetry Review, Istanbul Literary Review, Poetry, Poetry East, Salzburg Poetry Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, and Small Press Review. His books include, Captive in the Here, White Storm, Francis d'Assisi 2008, The Moon in the Pool, Destiny's Calendar, The Night Watches, seven stones for seven poems, Until There Is Nothing Left, Seagull Beach, and Northampton Poem. He is a retired educator having taught English and writing on the high school and college levels. He is the printer and editor of Adastra Press, which specializes in hand crafted limited edition chapbooks. An avid fly fisher, he fishes the rivers and steams of western Massachusetts as often as possible. Read.