Closing Distances
Paul Martin is the author of the full-lenght collection  CLOSING DISTANCES (The Backwaters Presss, 2009) and  three chapbooks:  Green Tomatoes, Walking Away Waving, and Morning on  Canal Street. His poems have appeared in America,  Boulevard, Commonweal,  5 AM, New Letters, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, River  Styx, Southern Poetry Review, Texas Poetry Review and  other journals.  He is the recipient of two poetry fellowships from the  Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. CLOSING DISTANCES  was twice a  finalist in the National Poetry Series. He lives with his wife,  Rita, in Ironton, Pennsylvania, and teaches part-time at  Muhlenberg College.