Closing Time

Arthur Ramer's poems are emphatically effective, powerfully poetic and rhythmic, or as he himself says, they are "smoky sweet bluesy." Arthur gives us original insights into humanity and senses of self, particularly of his own, of course. His candid revelations reach to the "death of" his "heart," and to the depths of ours. Matthew Leone, Director and Founder of the Colgate University Writers' Conference