John Claxton grew up in a small town in northern Illinois. ‎After graduating from Butler University, he moved to ‎Chicago and began a long career in advertising. Midway ‎through this career, he worked on a project with Billy ‎Collins. He decided, then and there, to become a poet ‎and has never looked back. He has had poems published ‎in the Atticus Review, Beyond Words, East by Northeast, Poetry ‎East and Poets Choice. This is his first book of poems.‎