Norm Mattox is a retired educator living from new york. his poetry tells a story of love and resilience in these times of challenge, struggle and transformation. norm has had poems published in the anthologies, poetry in flight/poesía en vuelo, the city is already speaking and poetry in the time of coronavirus. norm has a chapbook titled, 'get home safe, poems for crossing the community grid’. Nomadic Press published his second chapbook of poetry titled, ‘Black Calculus', recently released in February 2021.