Martin Willitts Jr. is a professional librarian and visual artist with hundreds of published poems including a full length book of poems with his art The Secret Language of the Universe (March Street Press, 2006), print chapbook Lowering Nets of Light (Pudding House Publications, 2007), online chapbook News from the Front (www.slowtrains.com, 2007), edited a poetry anthology about cancer, Alternatives to Surrender (Plain View Press, 2007), and an online chapbook of haiku with his artwork, Words & Paper (www.threelightsgallery.com, 2008).