Richard AppelAfter a succession of meaningless jobs (busboy, waiter, camp counselor, etc.), Rich Appel worked in Grey's Ferry in South Philadelphia as a social worker and community organizer for five years, before studying Folklore and Mythology at UCLA. Rich hasreceived three National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Awards for Teachers, and worked as an eleventh and twelfth-grade English teacher for over thirty years. He also was an adjunct at Delaware County Community College teaching freshman English. He has been writing poetry since undergraduate school at Penn State University, where he first met older, more accomplished writers who never laughed at the bad poetry he'd first written. Read More Read Less