Peter Waldor’s books include STATE OF THE UNION (Kelsay Books, 2017), THE UNATTENDED HARP, WHO TOUCHES EVERYTHING, winner of the National Jewish Book Award for poetry, THE WILDERNESS POETRY OF WU XING, and DOOR TO A NOISY ROOM. His poems have appeared in many journals, including The American Poetry Review and Ploughshares. He lives in New Jersey and has worked as an insurance executive for thirty years at small family agencies, and for a large public company, when he was exposed to the intersection between the political and business worlds.