The Washington Post recently profiled one of our own, AWP board member Roger Lathbury. As an English Professor at George Mason University and publisher of Orchises Press, Roger has stayed busy over the years. According to the January 26 article, Roger launched Orchises—named for an orchid in a Robert Frost poem—twenty-five years ago to help publish fellow GMU faculty. Lathbury’s work has not been without its controversies. In the late 1990s, shrouded in mystery, he acquired and then lost the rights to publish, for the first time in hardback, J.D. Salinger’s, “Hapworth 16, 1924,” formerly printed in the New Yorker. Roger remains steadfast in his dedication, choosing to focus, he told the Post, “on what I have published and what I am going to publish.” George Witt, editor-in-chief at St. Martin’s and a poet whose book, Deniability, was published by Orchises this January, said, “Without Roger and other publishers like him… there would be so many books that go unpublished strictly for economic reasons.”