Barbara DeCesare is the author of two books of poems, Silent Type (Paper Kite Press, 2007), and Jigsaw Eyesore (Anti-Man Press, 1999), and the CD Adrift (Seventh Wave, 2006). She is currently in service to the United States as a Deputy Unit Manager for Disability Examiners in the Social Security Administration. Her dinnerware consists of commemorative presidential plates. She has a crush on the Constitution.