EDITORS CHRISTOPHER BOGART AND GREGG G. BROWN CHRISTOPHER BOGART is a retired educator who is listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers a recipient of New Jersey State Department of Education "Best Practice" Award, a NJ Equity Hall of Fame Member, a recipient of the "A+ For Kids" Teachers' Network Award and a Claes Nobel Educator of Distinction (2006, 2007). He is a working poet and writer with an MA in Creative Writing from Monmouth University and who lives in Monmouth County, New Jersey. In 2015, he was chosen as First Runner Up for Monmouth University's inaugural The Joyce Carol Oates Award for Excellence in Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Non-Fiction. He is the founder of Jersey Shore Poets, and has organized the annual poetry event for National Poetry Month called, "Poets Live!" in its fourth consecutive year at Monmouth County Library/Eastern Branch. On August 1, 2005, he presented a paper on the importance of poetry in the teaching of literature and writing to the Oxford Round Table at the Oxford Union Debate Hall at Oxford University. He is presently writing poetry and short stories, as well as working on his first novel, tentatively titled The Beast, about the plight of two Central American teenage migrants who flee the poverty of their native Honduras to find a better life in El Norte. GREGG G. BROWN is a poet from Monmouth County, NJ who has run BLAST PRESS, a micro-publisher of fine literature for the last 30 years. The Jersey Shore Poets anthology, "First Edition" is BLAST PRESS' second foray into curating an anthology of NJ poets; the first was 2014's "Palisades, Parkways & Pinelands." He joined the the Jersey Shore Poets writers group half a decade ago.