Steve Straight was professor of English and director of the poetry program at Manchester Community College. His full-length collections include Affirmation (Grayson Books, 2022), The Almanac (Curbstone/Northwestern University Press, 2012) and The Water Carrier (Curbstone, 2002), which was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award in Poetry. For many years Straight directed the Connecticut Poetry Circuit, and for many summers he directed the Seminar Series for the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival. He has given workshops on writing and teaching throughout the eastern United States. In 1998 he was named a Distinguished Advocate for the Arts by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. He lives in South Windsor with his wife, Marian Maccarone, soprano and voice teacher.

Books by Steve Straight:

Other poems on the web by Steve Straight:
"Drishti"
"Lesson"

About Affirmation:

"Whenever you feel a loss of hope for the world—for this Earth and all created beings—take up this book of poems, Affirmation, by Steve Straight. It's not self-help, it's not feel-good—but it just may restore your love of the ordinary moment, your family, your neighborhood, birds and critters that lose their way into your yard and help you into a deeper way of caring for this Earth'¦These are restorative, playful, and wise poems by one of Connecticut's best poets."
—Margaret Gibson