Don Brown, a native Floridian graduated in Architecture from M.I.T. and retired from Reynolds International in Richmond, Virginia in 1990. His first book of poetry, Florida Scrub Country and Other Poems was published by iUniverse in 2000. He was then appointed Poet Laureate of the MIT Class of 1951. His second book, Joy in the Moment and Other Poems was published by iUniverse in 2006. He edits the weekly Poetic Voices column in the Sanibel Island Sun. His first poem was published by the Christian Science Monitor when he was eleven years old. He writes from his home on Sanibel Island, Florida. He can be reached at [email protected]