Tim Barnes teaches in the English Department at Portland Community College.  His poems and essays have appeared in Cloudbank, Poet Lore, South Dakota Review, Oregon English, and Silk Road.  His most recent collection is a chapbook, Definitions for a Lost Language.  He is co-editor of Wood Works: The Life and Writing of Charles Erskine Scott Wood and has recently assumed the editorship of the Friends of William Stafford Newsletter.  He lives in Portland with the beautiful Ilka and their cat Lorca.