In Vitro: New Short Rhyming Poems Post-9/11 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781441471215)

Leland Jamieson's first collection of verse was 21ST CENTURY BREAD: Short Rhyming Poems Post-9/11. Reviewers called this volume "Vivid, musical, ripe with powerful verbs, a clear voice, snappy enjambed lines" (Centrifugal Eye); "An Outstanding book of Unity and Grace" (Contemporary Rhyme); "Unique Voice... Powerful storytelling in poetic form" (Antithesis Common). Mr. Jamieson lives and writes in East Hampton, CT. He is a graduate of U.N.C. at Chapel Hill. He's spent most of his working life in performing arts center management. Since 2001 he has preoccupied himself with formal poetry. His goal is to tell stories and present snapshot vignettes that resonate with today's readers in a way they can grasp, and feel grasped by, on multiple levels. His major influences are the work of William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, William Stafford and Timothy Steele. "Teaching myself to write end-rhyming metrical verse is the single most liberating thing I have ever done in my entire writing life," he says. "What it liberates is feeling."