Exit Strategy                        11/1/2006   My Youth                              11/1/2006 Fictions                                11/1/2006 RightWords                           11/1/2006      Ideas of Grace                      11/1/2006   Saks Fifth Avenue                 1/7/2006 Our Four Year Anniversary Below the Floor PG 13 Karl Rove's Big Adventure This is Your Dream A Brief Nation Howl Redux           Reviews      Charles Ries lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His narrative poems, short stories, interviews and poetry reviews have appeared in over one hundred print and electronic publications. He has received three Pushcart Prize nominations for his writing and most recently he read his poetry on National Public Radio’s Theme and Variations, a program that is broadcast over seventy NPR affiliates.  He is the author of THE FATHERS WE FIND, a novel based on memory. Ries is also the author of five books of poetry — the most recent entitled, The Last Time which was just released by The Moon Press in Tucson, Arizona. He is the poetry editor for Word Riot (www.wordriot.org) and he is on the board of the Woodland Pattern Bookstore in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.