Parker Towle’s  full-length collections of poems, THIS WEATHER IS NO WOMB (2007)  and WORLD SPREAD OUT (2015) were published by Antrim  House Books.  He collaborated with collagist Barbara Newton on POEMS AND COLLAGE (2013).  He practiced neurology for 54 years until retirement in 2014.  In the 1990s he founded  the Free Clinic in Littleton, NH serviced by volunteer Littleton physicians and one town pharmacy.  This later morphed into Ammonusuc Family Health Center. He was on the board of the Frost Place in Franconia for 25 years.  He’s an associate editor at The Worcester Review.