About the Poem

"Wedding Poem" was written for Michael and Liz Hughes in honor of their wedding, October 2, 2010, in Charleston, South Carolina.

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About the Author

Joseph Bates’ fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The South Carolina Review, Identity Theory, Stone's Throw, New Ohio Review, and Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market, among others. He is also the author of The Nighttime Novelist, published in 2010 by Writer's Digest Books, and teaches in the creative writing program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Visit the author online at www.nighttimenovelist.com.

Thanks to Michael and Liz for letting me be part of their ceremony!

Love, Jody