"When Ben White was serving his 22-year military career (in the Army and the Coast Guard) and then again while earning his MFA from the University of Tampa, He thought he was a poet. But Ben is not a poet - he is a witness. What he writes is testimony. Along with various poems in various journals and anthologies, he is the author of The Recon Trilogy +1 and Always Ready: Poems from a Life in the United States Coast Guard."