"Mark Shadowmont is one of the few poets nowadays who writes poetry not to make pretty words or impress the reader, but who writes about life and living. His poems are all wrought with human emotions and there is ever a sense of personal experience. As a long time colleague and friend, I can say that these works most certainly speak to me. And they can speak to you as well. His most recent poem, "What About You," in fact urges you and I to participate...