Rich Follett

Rich Follett is a High School English teacher who has been writing poems and songs for more than 45 years. His poems have been featured in numerous online and print journals, including BlazeVox, The Montucky Review, Paraphilia, Leaf Garden Press, Red Fez, Poetic Diversity, and CounterExample Poetics, for which he has been a featured artist. Three volumes of poetry, Responsorials (with Constance Stadler), Silence, Inhabited, and Human & c. are available through NeoPoiesis Press. He is proud to serve as the poet laureate for Strasburg, Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley, where he lives with his wife Mary Ruth Alred Follett and where he also pursues his interests as a professional actor, singer/songwriter, playwright and director.