Protected: After My Father; After the Blight*

Paul D. Deane is the author of the academic books Achieving Equity in School Writing (Peter Lang, 2023) and Grammar in Mind and Brain (De Gruyter Mouton, 1993). His poems have appeared in The Brazen Head and Illuminations of the Fantastic, as well as in the anthology Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2023), edited by Dennis Wilson Wise. He is the editor of Forgotten Ground Regained, a journal of modern English alliterative verse; he is also author of the recent article “An Introduction to Alliterative Verse for Readers and Writers of Speculative Fiction” in Interstellar Flight Magazine. A computational linguist, he recently retired from Educational Testing Service, where he researched the development of writing and other literacy skills.