Rina Risper is joined by Tim Lane, who is a poet and a painter. He lives in Lansing, and is an Assistant Coordinator of the East Lansing Art Festival, and the Supervisor of the East Lansing Soccer Complex. He has appeared in numerous print and online journals; his paintings have exhibited in Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, South Bend, Washington, D.C. and locally. Tim is the former Director and Curator of Scene Metrospace, and has been involved in the local poetry and art scene for the past fifteen years.