• Name: David Nelson Bradsher 
• Location:  Raleigh, NC
• Age: 38
• Pets: None
• Favorite Poet: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lord Byron, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Gray, C.S. Lewis
• Favorite Poem:  The Fire of Driftwood (By Longfellow)
• Favorite website(s): Emerging Poets, Inside Carolina,
• Favorite author(s): J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert Crais, George R.R. Martin, J.D. Salinger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, C.S. Lewis
• Favorite philosopher(s):  George Eliot
• Favorite quote(s):  It is never to late to become what you were meant to be (George Eliot)
• Most admires:  Dean Smith, J.R.R. Tolkien, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (All lived lives of service to man and their success was a direct descendant of that service.  
• How long have you been writing poetry?: I’ve had fits of creativity, but I would count any of it actual poetry until the Spring of 2003
• What/Who inspires you to write?:  Life inspires me.  I’ll see something, anything, and one spark can lead to a raging fire.   It’s worked so far.  
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I used to be a tennis pro until an injury forced my retirement from that dream.  I’m left-handed, which I’m proud of, and I’m an avid work-out freak.  I go at 5 AM every morning, and the peace of being out so early inspires a lot of ideas for my poetry.

My dream now is the immortality that comes from being a poet remembered long after his days