Lessons of Darkness

Alan Catlin is retired from his unchosen profession as a barman. In his spare time he has been publishing for parts of six decades in little minuscule not so little literary and university publication: from the Wormwood Review to the Wisconsin Review to Tray Full of Lab Rats to Wordsworths Socks to The Literary Review and so forth. His chapbook Blue Velvet won the Slipstream Chapbook Contest in 2017. One of his more recent full length books is Last Man Standing from Lummox Press detailing his life and times walking to the bus stop busing to work and at his former job continuing an earlier similarly arranged book the now out of print underground classic The Schenectady Chainsaw Massacre. For his sins he is the poetry and review editor of misfitmagazine.net an online poetry journal.