The Music Lover's Poetry Anthology
Helen Handley Houghtonis a board member of the Academy of American Poets and of the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation. She editedThe Lover's Quotation Bookand co-editedChild: A Literary Companion. She has been Managing Editor ofThe Hudson Review, an English teacher for 20 years, and a director of both Poets House and Poets & Writers. She lives in New York City. Maureen McCarthy Draper is a pianist and the author ofThe Nature of Musicand two companion CDs of the same name. She teaches for Stanford University's Continuing Studies and other organizations. She lives on Monte Bello Ridge above Los Altos, in northern California.