Bill Burtis is associate editor at The Hole-in-the-Head Review, a quarterly journal of art and poetry, and is author of two collections of poetry, most recently Liminal from Nine Mile Books. The full-length book includes 50 years worth of poems, several published so long ago that the journals (e.g., Chelsea) no longer exist. His first published poem, “Night Fright” appeared in the former Hartford Times in 1964. “The Wave” chronicles, in part, the events of a night in May, 1965 in Simsbury, Connecticut, the poem was written years later. Burtis lives with the poet Nancy Jean Hill beside Maranacook Lake in Readfield, Maine, and on the banks of the Squamscot River in Exeter, New Hampshire.