Twenty-six Poems and a Night Light

About the Book

Twenty-six Poems and a Night Light is a collection of recent work by the author of When I Was in New York.

About the Author

Gary Zarr was born in Brooklyn, New York; and from there he set forth to make his way in the world. He has worked as a gofer for a mean-spirited second grade teacher at PS 185 (he slipped out of school each day to get the teacher’s lunch for a nickel), a grocery store stockman, a department store clerk, an office night cleaner (“Gary, ignore whatever you hear happening in the basement.”), a shoveler of snow out of driveways, a neighborhood dealer in comic books, a construction worker, messenger, a waiter, an editor, a freelance journalist, a high school teacher, a reading and writing tutor, a college instructor, a social research analyst, a graduate school lecturer, and as a senior executive in communications and marketing positions in government, non-profits and companies. His book, When I Was in New York, was published in 2011. He is a principal and co-founder of Phil & Co., a full service marketing and communications agency focused on nonprofits and companies doing good, located at Union Square in New York City, where he remains to this day, to the best of our knowledge.