Charles Gillispie is a counselor and poet in equal measure. He has worked as an expressive arts therapist for 25 years, publishing articles that describe his practice in Journal of Poetry Therapy and Therapeutic Recreation Journal. His recent poems explore the limits of language in addressing systemic racism, examining how subject and object affect one another grammatically and socially. His first poetry collection, The Way We Go On, (Backwaters Press) was released in 2010. Charles holds an MFA from the University of Arizona.