YES ALEXANDER?

Thomas Peter Bennett is a Florida native former professor and natural history museum executive he has published scientific articles and books as well as poems and collections. his poems have appeared in Red Owl Chebacco POETALK The Café Review Puckerbrush Review Pegasus Review and Perspectives in Biology and Medicine among others and in various anthologies such as Goose River Anthology Cosmos Club Poets Through the Years and Bay Area Poets Coalition. He is the author of several poetry chapbooks and ten poetry books including Nature As One Sees It (2003) A Celebration of John and William Bartram: In Philadelphia and Florida (2005) Hike On (2008) Encore Seasons (2017 Florida Sketches ( 2019) The Applause of Science (2021 and Audubon Explores Florida (2023).His son Dr. Alexander Staub Bennett is Research Professor and Director Opioid Overdose Prevention Program at New York University School of Global Public Health. Recipient 2018 New York City Department of Health Lifesaver Award. The author of many historical and scientific articles about drug addiction and harm reduction he is a leader in establishing harm reduction centers. The poems in Yes Alexander were written based on father son conversations over a period of some fifty years to create this book of poetry.AUTHOR'S NOTESAlexander Alex or Al depending on time and circumstance was the source of these life poems. I thank him for his words thoughts and permission to publish them in this collection of dialog poems of my response Yes Alexander? to his thoughtful questions or comments over time. And to his mother my wife over these many wonderful years.Thanks also to Deborah Benner for her editorial guidance and publishing several of these poems in Goose River Anthologies. Thomas Peter BennettSilver Spring Maryland 2024