As a Buffalonian who transplanted himself to Cortland, NY, Norb Aikin has been able to up his free-verse game in ways he couldn’t have imagined without a change of scenery. He has since won multiple Writing.com Quill awards for poetry and blogging, and is now hoping to win over the people who hold actual books. Read more at norbaikin.com/blog/, norbaikin.wordpress.com, and by following him at Writing.com and Twitter under the username Fivesixer.