"All poems are rooted in the mortality we bemoan; if we were immortal we would have no need to record human feelings in poetry."
-Maxine Kumin
Roger Pfingston's poems have appeared in magazines, books, and anthologies over a period of fifty years. A recipient of a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, he has poems in And Know This Place: Poetry of Indiana, published by the Indiana Historical Society Press. His latest chapbook is A Day Marked for Telling, available from Finishing Line Press.