– “Don’t panic. Keep your feet up.”

It bucks and dips, pitches and plunges while cold water slams you every few seconds.

A retired English professor, Kenneth Chamlee still enjoys teaching workshops on humor in poetry, writing in personae, and the remarkable connections between poetry and painting and photography. His poetic biography of 19th-century American landscape painter Albert Bierstadt, The Best Material for the Artist in the World (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2023), won the Outstanding Poetry Book Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. Ken is the author of If Not These Things (Kelsay Books, 2022), and his stories have appeared in several PSPP anthologies. Learn more at www.kennethchamlee.com .