Bud Navero, a native New Yorker, has been a poet, playwright, journalist and raconteur in Key West for forty years. He received a Ph.D from the legendary English Dept, at SUNY Buffalo where he served as Special Assistant to poet Robert Creeley. He has taught on the university and secondary levels in New York, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami and Key West and will be writing on Education and the Arts for the Blue Paper.