Joel Lewis edited Bluestones and Salt Hay, an anthology of New Jersey poets, as well as Reality Prime, the selected poems of Walter Lowenfels, and On the Level Everyday, the selected talks of Ted Berrigan. His own poetry collections include NORTH RIVER RUNDOWN, SURRENDER WHEN LEAVING COACH, LEARNING FROM NEW JERSEY, and VERTICAL'S CURRENCY: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS. A social worker by day, he has taught writing at The Poetry Project, The Writer's Voice, and Rutgers University. He and his wife, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, a cinema professor at Rutgers, live in Hoboken, NJ. A loving commentator on things New Jerseyan, MY SHAOLIN: A POEM OF STATEN ISLAND moves his focus to Staten Island.