David Hedges‘ latest poetry collection is The Death of Democracy! (all proceeds to be “plowed into printing and distributing books to elected officials;” to help fund that distribution, visit the GoFundMe page here). Hedges has placed poems with Light, Poetry, Measure, Poet Lore, et al. His book Prospects of Life After Birth: Memoir in Poetry and Prose appeared in 2019, and a book of light verse that first appeared in Poems of the Week, Trump Über Alles: Rhymes of the Times, was released in 2022. A full-length poetry collection is forthcoming in 2024. He is past president of the Oregon Poetry Association and serves on the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission. He co-founded the Oregon Poetry Collection at the University of Oregon’s Knight Library and received the 2003 Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award from Literary Arts, Inc. for his contributions to Oregon’s literary life.