Fredrick Zydek has retired from college teaching (creative writing and theology), and now fishes and farms (soybeans and corn), serves as editor of the Lone Willow Press chapbook series, and directs The Unity Center for Oneness Reading Series (including audio tapes and public TV) in Omaha. He has published more than 800 works, including four books of poetry, personal essays, fiction, plays, academic articles, and reviews.

He writes: "A good many years back, while Richard Hugo and I were picnicking at Lake Kapowsin, he told me I should try my hand at writing letter poems. As you probably know it was one of his favorite forms. Over the years it has become one of mine."

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