The Binnacle - Fall 2007

by Gerard NeCastro (editor)

Works Featured in this

A Psalm of Separation
Madonna Arsenault

A Fibonacci
Beebe Barksdale-Bruner

Of Vanishing Sands
Orman Day

Interviewing Herman Melville
William de Rham

Phantom Limbs
Plain
Brazen
Sandra Erickson

The Man Who Would Be Cervantes
Leonard Graholm


Office Hours
Andrea Jackson

Hospital Coffee
Mark Jackley

Mr. Katzmeier’s Shoes
Robert K. (Bob) Johnston

A Level of Dante’s Hell
Debra Kirouac

Neighbor Over Time
Flying Over Baghdad
Perie Longo

The Word “Yes”
Michael Constantine McConnell

Clickwheel
Tim Peoples

sex
Peter Schwartz

Lost Years
Zvi A. Sesling


Junkmail
Gavin Tierney

McDees Lunch Bodies
Nicolette Westfall

Dance With The River
Joanna Weston

74 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 30, 2013

About the author

Born and raised in Erie, Pennsylvania, Gerard NeCastro, after graduating from Mercyhurst college, was an accountant and bookstore manager in Cranberry, Pennsylvania, and Redlands, California. While working as a bookseller by day, he returned to school at night, studying languages part-time and eventually joined the master’s program in English at the University of California – Riverside, where he began his long involvement with Chaucer, Dante, and Medieval and Renaissance Drama. When he completed his MA, he continued his studies in Medieval Literature at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. While he was there, he taught in the legendary Integrated Liberal Studies program where he developed his love of Art History.

Upon completion of his Ph.D., he taught for two years at the University of Maine – Orono, and then for many years both on the graduate faculty at Orono and the regular faculty at Machias, where, after teaching hundreds of classes and editing dozens of publications, he was named as Emeritus Professor of English and Humanities. After his retirement there, he began his second career at WLU in July 2017. He and Vicki, his wife of 30+ years, live in the quiet town of Bethany. When he is not serving as dean or teaching his classes, he spends his time reading, editing, gardening, and writing fiction and poetry. He is now revising his novels Columbine AS3 and The In-Law.