Debra Rymer, better known as Ms. Rymer to her many students, has been writing poems for 48 years and feels at last she is ready to share them with others. When she isn't reading, teaching or writing, she coordinates international arts events via Second Life. Her poems explore dystopia-adjacent contexts with an adventurer's cautious optimism. Her poems have been accepted in The Passionfruit Review, The Font, Rez, Frontiers, The Idiom, and Past Ten. (The Font, Frontiers, and Past Ten poems will appear later in September).