Gerald So, Editor

Headshot of Gerald wearing a deep blue dress shirt against a mint-green background
Photo by Gerald So
I started to see crime through the lens of poetry in college reading Robert B. Parker novels about poet-inspired private investigator Spenser.

Earning degrees in creative writing, I taught composition for six years, and crime seeped into my poetry such that Anthony Rainone mentioned me in his Spring 2007 Mystery Scene article, "Raven in a Trenchcoat: Hardboiled & Noir Poetry".

Shortly after co-publishing The Lineup annual chapbooks 2008–11, I created The Five-Two to debut new crime poetry on the Web each week, collecting fifty-two each year, almost twice as many as a volume of The Lineup could hold.

Each Five-Two poem has a companion video. For poets unable to record, videos are volunteered by me or other Voices of The Five-Two.

Also feel free to keep up with me on my book review blog So Much to Talk About or my personal blog Very Much So.


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