Richard Epstein is a long-time resident of the Washington, DC area. His poems have appeared in O-Dark Thirty, Deros, Incoming, Poetica, Schuylkill Valley Journal and The Federal Poets. Epstein hosts the Memorial Day Writers Project on the National Mall near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial twice a year (on Veterans Day and Memorial Day). He has been a featured reader at the U.S. Navy Memorial, the Vietnam Women’s Memorial, the Kensington Bookstore Poetry Series and the Frederick Poetry Salon.