Fire Pearls 2: Short Masterpieces of Love and Passion
M. Kei is a tall ship sailor and award-winning poet. He is the editor-in-chief ofTake Five : Best Contemporary Tanka, and the editor ofAtlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka. His second collection, ofSlow Motion : The Log of a Chesapeake Bay Skipjack,is Recommend Reading by the Chesapeake Bay Project.  He also the author of a gay Asian-themed science fiction/fantasy novel,Fire Dragon.