Dennis Formento lives in Slidell, Louisiana, near his native New Orleans. Books of poetry include Spirit Vessels (FootHills Publishing, 2018,) Looking for An Out Place (FootHills, 2010,) and Cineplex (Paper Press, 2014.) Edited Mesechabe: The Journal of Surregionalism, 1991-2001. He has organized 100,000 Poets for Change readings in New Orleans and St. Tammany Parish, LA, since 2011.