Robert Klein Engler lives in Omaha, Nebraska and sometimes New Orleans. Many of Mr. Engler's poems, stories, paintings and photographs are set in the Crescent City. His long poem, "The Accomplishment of Metaphor and the Necessity of Suffering," set partially in New Orleans, is published by Headwaters Press, Medusa, New York, 2004. He has received an Illinois Arts Council award for his "Three Poems for Kabbalah." Some of his books are available at amazon.com.