Ted Mathys Ted Mathys is the author of three books of poetry, Null Set, The Spoils, and Forge. He lives in Saint Louis and teaches at Saint Louis University. From “Shale Plays”Two counties away, an Iraq vet with PTSD braces for the next tremor in a beige La-Z-Boy. He watches a documentary about the tides and sea. Ted Mathys The After PartyAn Interview with Chris Martin on Becoming Weather Ted Mathys Chris Martin