David King is a retired English teacher who writes occasional verses with an emphasis on strong imagery and characterization. His current projects include series of poems on ​the New Jersey Turnpike, Asbury Park, New Jersey, and Boone, North Carolina, soon to be published as Turnpike Suite and Rural Traces. He currently lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina where his pursuits involve Civil War and Revolutionary War studies, the history of colonial churches, bird watching, and road trips in a two-seater sports car.