Brian Clifton lives in Kansas City with his girlfriend, Amanda, his dog, Doc Holliday, and his pig, H1N1 (pronounced hinnie). A recent graduate of Creighton University (B.A. in English and Greek), he has an inordinate fondness for three things: beards, cardigans, and language. Currently, he is indulging in all three. His poems can be found in Plains Song Review, Iodine, The Dirty Napkin, Third Wednesday, The Journal, Poetica, and others. He has a few manuscripts that are almost ready to be told they aren’t publishable and that they need to be edited.