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Ursula T. Gibson was born in 1930. She has been poetry editor for Poetic Voices since 1997, reading up to 300 poems a month to select those to be published. As a music/English major at San Jose State College, she won the first Dorothy Kaucher Award for Oral Interpretation in 1951. Since 1988, when she began to write seriously, her poetry output has grown to 642 poems so far, some published in USA, Canada, England, India, South Africa, and Australia. This book contains 55 of them. She has published three chapbooks (Eyes, 1990, Two Tujunga Poets, 1993, and Spirited, 19960—the poems of which she also recorded on a CD). She wrote Be Prepared, Don’t Mumble, Look UP! or How to Read Poetry Aloud, which was published in 2003. She is a member and state treasurer (1997–2005) of the California Federation of Chaparral Poets, Inc., and belongs to the California State Poetry Society. She reads at local venues regularly. She has been a legal secretary since 1956, and a California certified legal secretary since 1989. Her husband, their two cats, and she live in Southern California in the mountains near Glendale.