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Lewis J. Kahler is an Instructor of Humanities at Mohawk Valley Community College, he also is the co-editor and publisher, with his wife Colleen Kahler, of Portrait literary magazine (www.portraitsketch.com). Lewis is a poet and playwright, and in 2004 wrote and received a grant from the New York State Council for the Arts, and the Central New York Community Arts Council, for the production of three original one-act plays as an extension of EXPTHEAT, the Resonance Center�s Experimental Theater project. Lewis is the co-founder and former director of the Resonance Center, a nonprofit community arts organization and educational space, located in Utica, NY. Lewis also was a contributing editor to Alternative Medicine; The Definitive Guide, published in 2002 by Ten Speed Press. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the Resonant Review, Ampersand, Fusion and The Oracle Literary Journal.