Mark McGuire-Schwartz strives to find a tad of originality in this world so overcrowded with words. This led to his creating a new poetic form, the Seventeen. Further, he believes that he may be the first person to ever use the phrase “iffy, itchy, icy, insular” in a poem. Mark is the Guilford Poet Laureate. He has published in numerous journals and anthologies and on the bottoms of rocks His books include Loss and Laughs, Love and Fauna and 289, a book of 17s.